Just as modest in triumph as he would have been courteous in loss, Donald Trump continues to criticize the Democratic Party for enlisting former staunch Republicans Liz and Dick Cheney to support their election efforts.
“The Democrats made a HUGE blunder by involving Crazy Liz Cheney [sic] and her father, Dick, in their Presidential campaign,” the president-elect posted on Truth Social this past Sunday.
“This infuriated the Republicans, while the Democrats were left utterly bewildered,” he commented further. “It’s always a terrible strategy to recruit ‘losers’ into a political campaign!”
Trump has been quite vocal about his disdain for the Cheneys, whose departure from the GOP to support Kamala Harris seems to have truly annoyed the Republican candidate, just as much as the opposing campaign’s continual taunts about attendance at his rallies and the peculiarities surrounding him and his running mate JD Vance.
His remarks concerning the Cheney duo have been predictably derisive. In a diatribe on Truth Social earlier in September, Trump referred to Dick Cheney as the “King of Endless, Nonsensical Wars, squandering Lives and Trillions of Dollars, just like Comrade Kamala Harris,” adding that he is, of course, “the Peace President, and only I can prevent World War III!”
Following Trump’s peculiar political rationale, which seems remarkably resistant to irony, serving as a protective barrier against worldwide conflict does not seem to contradict making stunning threats of violence toward your adversaries here at home.
Lambasting Liz Cheney as “a radical war hawk,” he went on to propose before audiences during a campaign rally in Arizona on November 1: “Let’s have her standing there with a rifle, nine barrels pointed at her—what would she think about that? You know, when the guns are aimed right at her face.”
This outburst of campaign-ending animosity has allegedly triggered an investigation by Arizona’s Democratic Attorney General Kris Mayes, who asserts that he has instructed his criminal division chief to look into whether the president-elect’s remarks might break state laws regarding death threats.
Good luck with that one, Kris!
