Vice President Kamala Harris mentioned Friday that Donald Trump’s latest feedback imagining a violent scene with weapons aimed toward former Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney ought to remove him within the race for the White Home.
“This must be disqualifying,” she instructed reporters in Madison, Wisconsin. “Anyone who wants to be president of the United States who uses that kind of violent rhetoric is clearly disqualified and unqualified to be president.”
The Democratic nominee for president’s remarks come a day after Trump dreamed up a violent situation for Cheney, a Republican who’s endorsed Harris and appeared along with her on the marketing campaign path.
“She’s a radical war hawk. Let’s put her with a 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,” the Republican presidential nominee instructed former Fox Information host Tucker Carlson throughout an look in Arizona.
Trump’s remarks, Harris mentioned Friday, are indicative of how he plans to deal with his political opponents if he wins the presidency subsequent week.
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“Rep. Cheney is a true patriot who has shown extraordinary courage in putting country above party,” Harris mentioned. “Trump is increasingly, however, someone who considers his political opponents the enemy, is permanently out for revenge and is increasingly unstable and unhinged. His enemies list has grown longer, his rhetoric has grown more extreme and he is even less focused than before on the needs and concerns and challenges facing the American people.”
Trump has made over 100 public threats to “investigate, prosecute, imprison or otherwise punish his perceived opponents,” NPR reported final week. Most notably, he recommended final month that members of the “radical left” characterize “an enemy within” that he’d confront with army power if elected.
Trump has mocked considerations about him imprisoning his political enemies.
“It’s unbelievable. Did you see ‘Donald Trump wants to put us in jail,’” he mentioned in North Carolina on Wednesday, parroting the alarm.
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“Donald Trump is going to go after some of the scum that you see back there,” he continued, gesturing to the press pit at his rally. “They’re so dishonest. ‘Donald Trump is doing terrible things. He wants to put us in prison.’ That’s what they’ve been trying to do to me for three years — they got this story mixed up.”
