A reporter from the notoriously liberal outlet Vox is urging his mainstream media colleagues to reconsider their reporting before they continue to falsely claim that former President Donald Trump expressed a desire to see former congresswoman Liz Cheney placed in front of a firing squad.On Thursday, Trump referred to Cheney as a “radical war hawk” due to her past support for the Afghanistan and Iraq Wars, a characterization that liberals have used against her for a long time, as noted by Zack Beauchamp on X. He emphasized the importance of journalists considering the context of Trump’s comments. “Trump is talking about giving her a weapon. Typically, people put in front of firing squads aren’t armed.”
During a rally in Glendale, Arizona, Trump veered into open disdain for the anti-Trump Republican who helped lay the blame for J6 at his feet. But he never called for her to be placed before a firing squad. “She’s a radical war hawk. Let’s put her with a rifle standing there with nine barrels shooting at her, okay? Let’s see how she feels about it. You know, when the guns are trained on her face,” he told the crowd. “They’re all war hawks when they’re sitting in Washington in a nice building, saying, ‘Oh gee, let’s send 10,000 troops right in the mouth of the enemy.’”
Folks, Trump didn’t threaten to execute Liz Cheney. He actually was calling her a chickenhawk, something liberals said about her for ages.
Look at the context — Trump is talking about giving her a weapon. Typically, people put in front of firing squads aren’t armed. pic.twitter.com/AmKWkAVfur
— Zack Beauchamp (@zackbeauchamp) November 1, 2024
Beauchamp may have a valid point, considering the surge of headlines implying that Trump was once again inciting violence against a political opponent. Politico reported that the Republican’s speech “reverts to violent rhetoric,” while Reuters’ headline declared, “Trump suggests Liz Cheney should face firing squad for her foreign policy stance.” Cheney, who has leveraged her anti-Trump credentials through book deals and campaign appearances supporting Vice President Kamala Harris, responded to the attack with a statement of her own. “This is how dictators destroy free nations. They threaten those who speak against them with death,” Cheney posted Friday on X. “We cannot entrust our country and our freedom to a petty, vindictive, cruel, unstable man who wants to be a tyrant.”
Meanwhile, Florida GOP Rep. Byron Donalds accused CNN host John Berman of misleading his viewers regarding Trump’s comments about women during a heated exchange on Thursday. Berman played an edited clip of Trump stating he will protect women “whether they like it or not,” referencing the many women who have fallen victim to rape and murder due to the border crisis.
Donalds called the clip “grossly inaccurate” and taken out of context, explaining that Trump is pledging to protect women from the various tragedies stemming from the crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border. “John, that is grossly inaccurate what you just played. Play the full clip. Play it in its context,” Donalds said. “He’s talking about the tragedy at our southern border that led to the death of Jocelyn Nungaray. Jocelyn’s mother endorsed Donald Trump because she fully believes that if Donald Trump was president, her daughter would be alive.
“And so what he was talking about, I’m gonna protect women, I’m gonna protect children,’ and he was really telling a joke about how some of the staff said ‘no, no, don’t say you’ll protect women because they’ll take it out of context.’ Obviously, what CNN is doing right now is taking it out of context,” Donalds said.
