Liz Cheney shot back at the former president of Donald Trump comments on Thursday night, where he darkly presented a scenario in which guns were drawn on the former Republican congressional leader turned supporter of Kamala Harris.

At issue are comments made during an event hosted by Tucker Carlson, in which Trump blasted Cheney as a “stupid” and “warhawk” but then insulted her, suggesting she would behave differently if there were guns “firing at her.” Referring to Cheney as “a very stupid individual”, he then said:

She is a radical war hawk. Let’s put her with a shotgun sitting there with nine barrels firing at her. Good. Let’s see how she feels about it. You know, when guns are pointed in her face.

Suggesting a scenario where a political enemy is attacked is a dangerous level of heated rhetoric. It caused an early storm days before the presidential election. Cheney did not take the comments lightly, posting it reply on social networks.

Cheney he wrote“This is how dictators destroy free nations. They threaten death to those who speak against them. We cannot entrust our country and our freedom to a petty, vindictive, cruel, unstable man who wants to be a tyrant.

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