Fact Check: CNN Reporter Claims Trump Called for Liz Cheney to Be Executed


CLAIM: CNN reporter Alayna Treene repeated a false claim that former President Donald Trump had called for former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) to be executed.

VERDICT: False.

Trump’s remarks about Cheney being eager to send troops into war without understanding how it feels were taken out of context. The former president was questioning how Cheney would feel if she were the one being sent to fight on the front lines of war.

“This violent rhetoric that Donald Trump has been using — including when he referred to Liz Cheney, just a couple days ago, saying that maybe they should line her up and shoot some barrels at her…” Treene said.

As Breitbart News has previously reported, Trump did not call for Cheney to be executed. He was talking to Tucker Carlson about “the reason” Cheney does not like him, which he says is because “she wanted to stay in Iraq,” adding that she “always wanted to go to war with people.”

Trump proceeded to ponder how Cheney would feel if she were the one who was being sent to fight in a war:

[Dick Cheney’s] daughter’s a very dumb individual, very dumb. She’s a radical war hawk. Let’s put her with a rifle standing there with nine barrels shooting at her, okay? Let’s see how she feels about it, you know, when the guns are trained on her face. You know, they’re all war hawks when they’re sitting in Washington in a nice building, saying, “Aw gee, well, let’s send ten thousand troops right into the mouth of the enemy.” But she’s a stupid person.

Despite Trump never calling for the execution of Cheney, Democrats and the media have distorted Trump’s words.

As Breitbart News previously reported, Vice President Kamala Harris was asked by a reporter if she was “concerned” about Cheney’s “general security” after Trump’s comments.

Breitbart News’s Wendell Husebo previously reported that even never-Trumpers such as former Congressman Joe Walsh, and Vox senior correspondent Zach Beauchamp even debunked the hoax that Donald Trump had called for Liz Cheney’s execution.

“Trump did NOT call for Liz Cheney to be executed,” Walsh wrote in a post on X. “This is what’s so wrong with our politics today.”

Walsh added, “This short clip is so deceptive. Trump is NOT calling for Liz Cheney to be executed in front of a firing line. He’s not. Listen to the entirety of what he said. In Trump’s typically stupid, ugly fashion, he’s trying to make a point about Cheney’s stance on war.”

Originally Posted At www.breitbart.com


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    At a recent pre-election speaking and podcast event, comedian and Libertarian political commentator Dave Smith expressed his view that it is very realistic that the next President Donald Trump could successfully negotiate an end to the Ukraine war

    Smith’s view is optimistic, as he articulated that he believes Trump’s expressed desire to end wars in Ukraine and Gaza is genuine. But Smith also laid out that much depends on who Trump puts around him in top national security positions. Below is the hard-hitting segment featuring the prominent commentator addressing the question: will Trump be able to end the war in Ukraine?

    Below are Dave Smith’s words from the segment on Trump and Ukraine below [emphasis ZH]…

    “Why the hell are we even expanding our military alliance to Ukraine? And listen, Donald Trump always says that the war ‘never would have happened if I was president, and I would negotiate an end to this.’

    And I gotta say I think he’s right about that. I don’t think the war would have happened if he was president – I think he will negotiate an end to it.

    I don’t think he’s right that Hamas wouldn’t have attacked Israel if he was president – that seems kind of ridiculous to me. But he’s right: the Ukraine war could be over tomorrow if American wanted to negotiated a peace to it.

    Vladimir Putin has been trying to the entire time… 

    Well the question becomes who does Donald Trump put around him? If Donald Trump puts Mike Pompeo, aka Liz Cheney’s pick for Defense Secretary… if he puts John Bolton, aka Hillary Clinton’s pick for national security adviser – then maybe not, maybe it doesn’t happen.

    But if he listens to Tucker Carlson, and ‘Bobby’ Kennedy, and Vivek Ramaswamy, and all the smart people around him – then yes, he could negotiate an end to that war.”

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    Indeed, the question ultimately becomes: will Trump really keep the ‘swamp’ out of his administration this time around? We hope so.

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