Cheney slams ‘tyrant’ Trump for violent rhetoric

Former United States representative and vocal Donald Trump critic, Liz Cheney called the former president a “vindictive, cruel” dictator on Friday after he suggested she would be less of a “war hawk” with guns trained on her face.

“This is how dictators destroy free nations. They threaten those who speak against them with death,” the former US congresswoman and daughter of ex-vice president Dick Cheney said Friday in a post on social platform X.

“We cannot entrust our country and our freedom to a petty, vindictive, cruel, unstable man who wants to be a tyrant.”

Trump — who is running for reelection — made the remarks as he criticized Cheney’s father for endorsing Democratic White House candidate Kamala Harris, speaking during a fireside chat with former Fox News host Tucker Carlson in Arizona. Punch