Kamala Harris slammed Donald Trump for his comments connected Liz Cheney, saying it 'disqualified' him to beryllium president.
Trump, astatine an arena pinch Tucker Carlson on Thursday, said Cheney, nan erstwhile Republican congresswomen who endorsed Harris, should beryllium put connected a battlefield 'with 9 barrels shooting astatine her face.'
Democrats instantly criticized him for nan remark but Harris took it a measurement further, saying Trump should nary longer beryllium successful nan statesmanlike race.
'This must beryllium disqualifying,' Harris told reporters successful Wisconsin. 'Anyone who wants to beryllium president of nan United States who uses that benignant of convulsive rhetoric is intelligibly is disqualified and unqualified to beryllium president.'
'This must beryllium disqualifying,' Kamala Harris said of Trump's remark connected Liz Cheney
She called Cheney 'a existent patriot who has shown bonzer courageousness successful putting state supra party.'
'Trump, however, considers his governmental opponents nan force and is permanently retired for revenge and progressively unstable and unhinged. His enemies database has grown longer.'
'His rhetoric has grown much extreme, and he is moreover little focused than earlier connected nan needs and nan concerns and nan challenges facing nan American people,' Harris added.
The Democratic nominees said she has not spoken to Cheney since Trump's remark.
Trump has agelong railed against Cheney, who criticized him for his domiciled successful nan January 6th insurrection and was 1 of 2 Republican lawmakers who sat connected nan House committee investigating it.
'She's a extremist warfare hawk,' Trump said of her astatine arena Thursday nighttime astatine nan Desert Diamond Arena successful Glendale, Ariz. 'Let's put her pinch a firearm opinionated location pinch 9 barrels shooting astatine her, OK? Let's spot really she feels astir it. You know, erstwhile nan guns are trained connected her face.'
Both Cheney and her father, erstwhile Vice President Dick Cheney, person endorsed Harris.
Trump had mentioned Liz Cheney's father before he unleashed nan diatribe.
'I don't blasted him for sticking pinch his daughter. But his daughter's a very dumb individual, very dumb,' Trump said.
'Let's put her pinch a firearm opinionated location pinch 9 barrels shooting astatine her, OK? Let's spot really she feels astir it. You know, erstwhile nan guns are trained connected her face,' Donald Trump told Tucker Carlson of Liz Cheney
Liz Cheney has endorsed and campaigned pinch Kamala Harris
Cheney took to societal media to respond to Trump, saying 'this is really dictators destruct free nations.'
'They frighten those who speak against them pinch death,' she wrote successful nan post. 'We cannot entrust our state and our state to a petty, vindictive, cruel, unstable man who wants to beryllium a tyrant.'
Trump's run said nan erstwhile president was criticizing Cheney's hawkish overseas argumentation and that they were being misrepresented successful media outlets.
'President Trump is 100 percent correct that warmongers for illustration Liz Cheney are very speedy to commencement wars and nonstop different Americans to conflict them, alternatively than spell into combat themselves,' said Trump camapaign spokesperson Karoline Leavitt.
'This is nan continuation of nan latest clone media outrage days earlier nan predetermination successful a blatant effort to interfere connected behalf of Kamala Harris.'
But Trump has been a longtime Cheney critic.
Back successful March, Trump called for Cheney to beryllium jailed complete her domiciled successful investigating nan January 6 onslaught connected nan Capitol.
In a station connected Truth Social, Trump wrote that Cheney should 'go to jailhouse on pinch nan rest' of nan prime January 6 House committee.