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    • Harris condemned Trump’s comments about Cheney, saying it was “disqualifying.”
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    Harris condemned Trump’s comments about Cheney, saying it was “disqualifying.”

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    Arizona’s attorney general opened an investigation into Trump’s comments, but some legal experts said he clearly did not threaten Cheney.

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    WASHINGTON – Vice President Kamala Harris on Friday condemned former President Donald Trump’s comment that former Republican Rep. Liz Cheney should enter armed combat over her support for U.S. wars abroad, saying it should be “disqualifying” for presidency.

    “He has ramped up his violent rhetoric — Donald Trump has done that — about political opponents and proposed in detail that guns should be pointed at former Rep. Liz Cheney. This should be disqualifying,” she told reporters ahead of a rally in Wisconsin.

    Harris’ criticism came as Arizona’s attorney general said she had opened a preliminary investigation into the comments — and as some legal experts said, they were clearly not threats.

    ‘There is no real threat here. Not a call to initiate threatened violence,” Anthony Kreis, a law professor at Georgia State University, said in a social media post. “His statement was despicable, abhorrent and undermining of our politics, but it is protected speech.”

    More: Cheney slams Trump for ‘war hawk’ comment

    Trump made his comments Thursday in an interview with former Fox News host Tucker Carlson at a campaign event in Glendale, Arizona.

    “She’s a radical war hawk. Let’s put her there with a gun while nine barrels shoot her, OK?’ he said. “Let’s see how she feels about, you know, having the guns pointed at her face.”

    Harris said any candidate who uses this kind of “violent” rhetoric is “clearly disqualified and unqualified to be president.”

    Trump later clarified: “The only thing I say about Liz Cheney is that she is a war hawk, and a dumb one at that, but she wouldn’t have ‘the guts’ to fight herself,” he said on his social media. platform, Truth Social.

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    Karoline Leavitt, a spokesperson for Trump, wrote on X, formerly Twitter, that Trump’s words were taken “out of context.”

    “President Trump CLEARLY explained that warmongers like Liz Cheney are quick to start wars and send other Americans to fight them, rather than taking up the fight themselves,” Leavitt wrote.

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    Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes, a Democrat, told NBC affiliate 12News on Friday that her office will investigate whether comments Trump made about Cheney qualify as a death threat under state law.

    National security attorney Bradley Moss said in a post on X that it was clear Trump “did not make a death threat.” “Trump is mean and says disgusting things,” Moss added. “I want him to lose badly and get justice in his ongoing lawsuits. But come on.’

    Cheney, one of Trump’s most outspoken critics, has endorsed Harris and campaigned alongside her in recent weeks.

    She previously served as vice chair of the now-disbanded House of Representatives committee that investigated the attack on the Capitol on January 6, 2021, and has condemned the former president’s actions that day.

    In June, Trump amplified social media posts calling for Cheney, a former State Department official and a daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney, to be tried publicly for treason by a military tribunal. Treason is punishable by death.

    Contributions: Bart Jansen, Josh Meyer

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