The fact-checking organization Snopes has corrected the record for several news outlets and the Kamala Harris campaign, which spread the false claim that Trump called for Liz Cheney’s “execution.” Snopes determined that “Trump didn’t threaten to have Liz Cheney shot.”
Snopes wrote as its headline on the fact-check, “Despite violent rhetoric, Trump didn’t threaten to have Liz Cheney shot,” and called out several examples of pundits saying that the GOP nominee was making a death threat towards Cheney during a Thursday evening event with Tucker Carlson earlier this week in Arizona.
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— Thomas Stevenson (@RealTStevenson) November 2, 2024
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Trump is talking about Liz Cheney’s stance on war
He is discussing how elites will send our kids to war but never do themselves pic.twitter.com/i0qwCF2KwV
— Jack Poso 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) November 1, 2024
According to Snopes, “Albeit a potentially dangerous escalation of violent rhetoric and imagery on Trump’s part, in context his words did not amount to an explicit threat against Cheney.” However, pundits at different outlets and Harris’ campaign claimed that Trump was calling for the “execution” of Cheney. One such came from Drudge Report that read, “Trump calls for Cheney’s execution.”
Kamala Harris as well as her campaign has spread false claims about Trump, with Harris senior advisor Ian Sims claiming on MSNBC that Trump was talking about “sending a prominent Republican [Liz Cheney] to the firing squad.”
Harris herself spread the hoax and told reporters that Trump “suggested rifles should be trained on former Representative Liz Cheney” when he made the comments. […]
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