Trump says Liz Cheney should face 'nine barrels shooting at her,' prompting state death-threat inqui

During an on-stage conversation with Tucker Carlson at Desert Diamond Arena in Glendale, Arizona, Trump attacked Liz Cheney — the former January 6 committee vice chair then campaigning for Kamala Harris — saying 'She's a radical war hawk. Let's put her with the rifle standing there with nine barrels shooting at her. OK, let's see how she feels about it. You know, when the guns are trained on her face.' His campaign said he was describing a combat zone and criticizing Cheney's foreign-policy hawkishness. Cheney responded that 'This is how dictators destroy free nations. They threaten those who speak against them with death,' and Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes asked her criminal division to analyze whether the statement violated state death-threat law. Observers placed the remark in Trump's documented pattern of violent rhetoric toward the officials who investigated his role in January 6.

“She's a radical war hawk. Let's put her with the rifle standing there with nine barrels shooting at her. OK, let's see how she feels about it. You know, when the guns are trained on her face.” Quote verified against source