By james art 
GLENDALE, Ariz. – Donald Trump is calling former congresswoman Liz Cheney, one of his most prominent Republican critics, a “war hawk” and suggesting she might be less inclined to send troops to fight if she had pointed guns to her. Cheney responded by calling the Republican presidential nominee “a cruel, unstable man who wants to be a tyrant.”
At an event late Thursday in Arizona, with former Fox News host Tucker Carlson, Trump was asked if it was strange to see Cheney campaigning against him. The former Wyoming congressman has vocally opposed Trump since the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol and has endorsed Democrat Kamala Harris in the race for the White House, joining the vice president at the last stops.
Trump called Cheney a “crazy person” and added: “But the reason she couldn’t stand me is she always wanted to go to war with people. If it were up to her, we’d be in 50 different countries.”
The former president continued: “She is a radical war hawk. Let’s put her with the shotgun standing there with nine barrels firing at her. Okay, let’s see how she feels about it. You know, when guns are pointed at her face.
“You know they’re all war hawks when they’re sitting in Washington in a nice building and they’re saying, gosh, okay, let’s send 10,000 troops right into the mouth of the enemy,” Trump said.
Cheney responded Friday in an X post: “This is how dictators destroy free nations. They threaten with death 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.
Earlier, after Harris’ campaign and other Trump critics on social media pounced on his comment, Trump’s campaign said he was “talking about how Liz Cheney wants to send America’s sons and daughters to fight in wars , although she herself has never fought in a war’.