(The Guardian) Arizona attorney general launches 'death threat' investigation into Trump's shooting comments about Liz Cheney
Arizona’s attorney general has launched an investigation into whether Donald Trump violated state law through his violent rhetoric against Liz Cheney who he said should be shot with “guns trained on her face”.
In a statement to 12News on Friday, attorney general Kris Mayes said: “I have already asked my criminal division chief to start looking at that statement, analyzing it for whether it qualifies as a death threat under Arizona’s laws.”
In an interview with the former Fox host Tucker Carlson on Thursday evening in Arizona, Trump spoke of Cheney, a former Republican House representative of Wyoming and vocal critic of Trump. -- “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,” Trump said.
In response, Cheney took to X and wrote: “This is how dictators destroy free nations. They threaten those who speak against them with death. We cannot entrust our country and our freedom to a petty, vindictive, cruel, unstable man who wants to be a tyrant. #Womenwillnotbesilenced #VoteKamala.”
-Read more: https://www.12news.com/article/news...hreat/75-91f8b734-06eb-4aeb-a633-89be0df7c4c4
Arizona’s attorney general has launched an investigation into whether Donald Trump violated state law through his violent rhetoric against Liz Cheney who he said should be shot with “guns trained on her face”.
In a statement to 12News on Friday, attorney general Kris Mayes said: “I have already asked my criminal division chief to start looking at that statement, analyzing it for whether it qualifies as a death threat under Arizona’s laws.”
In an interview with the former Fox host Tucker Carlson on Thursday evening in Arizona, Trump spoke of Cheney, a former Republican House representative of Wyoming and vocal critic of Trump. -- “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,” Trump said.
In response, Cheney took to X and wrote: “This is how dictators destroy free nations. They threaten those who speak against them with death. We cannot entrust our country and our freedom to a petty, vindictive, cruel, unstable man who wants to be a tyrant. #Womenwillnotbesilenced #VoteKamala.”
-Read more: https://www.12news.com/article/news...hreat/75-91f8b734-06eb-4aeb-a633-89be0df7c4c4
