Trump attacks Liz Cheney, called a 'war hawk' to be put in front of a gun. Harris: tycoon is 'disqualified' for the White House

Donald Trump's verbal violence 'disqualifies' him for the White House, Kamala Harris said, reacting to the tycoon's comments against former Congresswoman Liz Cheney. The former president, she charged from Wisconsin, 'has escalated verbal violence against his political opponents and, in great detail, has suggested that he is turning his guns on former Congresswoman Liz Cheney. This must disqualify him. Someone who wants to be president of the United States and uses this kind of verbal violence is clearly unfit and disqualified from the office of president'.

Harris refers in particular to the attack Trump had made on Liz Cheney a few hours earlier. In an interview with Fox, Trump said: 'Let's put her in front of a rifle shooting at her and see how she feels. They're all war hawks when they're sitting in Washington in a nice building saying, 'Oh, man, let's send 10,000 troops right into the mouth of the enemy'." He then added that Cheney is a 'fool who always wants to go to war'.

Cheney loudly opposed Trump after the 6 January 2021 attack on the Capitol and became a supporter of his Democratic opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris. Trump called Cheney 'a deranged person'. He added: 'the reason she couldn't stand me is because she always wanted to go to war with people. If it were up to her we would be at war with 50 different countries'.

After Harris and other Trump critics on social media lashed out at the former president's statement, Trump's campaign managers responded that 'he was talking about how Liz Cheney wants to send America's sons and daughters to fight in wars despite never having been to the front lines'.

Cheney's own reply followed: 'This is how dictators destroy free nations. They threaten their opponents with death. We cannot entrust our country and our freedom to a petty, vindictive, cruel, unstable man who wants to be a tyrant,' she urged in a post on X.