Harris Says Trumps Comments About Liz Cheney Are Disqualifying

Vice President Kamala Harris said Friday that Donald Trump s recent comments imagining a violent scene with guns aimed at former Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney should eliminate him in the race for the White House.

This must be disqualifying, she told reporters in Madison, Wisconsin. Anyone who wants to be president of the United States who uses that kind of violent rhetoric is clearly disqualified and unqualified to be president.

The Democratic nominee for presidents remarks come a day after Trump dreamed up a violent scenario for Cheney, a Republican whos endorsed Harris and appeared with her on the campaign trail.

Shes a radical war hawk. Lets put her with a rifle standing there with nine barrels shooting at her, OK? Lets see how she feels about it. You know, when the guns are trained on her face, the Republican presidential nominee told former Fox News  host Tucker Carlson  during an appearance in Arizona.

Trumps remarks, Harris said Friday, are indicative of how he plans to treat his political opponents if he wins the presidency next week.

Rep. Cheney is a true patriot who has shown extraordinary courage in putting country above party, Harris said. Trump is increasingly, however, someone who considers his political opponents the enemy, is permanently out for revenge and is increasingly unstable and unhinged. His enemies list has grown longer, his rhetoric has grown more extreme and he is even less focused than before on the needs and concerns and challenges facing the American people.

Trump has made over 100 public threats to investigate, prosecute, imprison or otherwise punish his perceived opponents, NPR reported  last week. Most notably, he suggested last month that members of the radical left represent an enemy within that hed confront with military force if elected.

Trump has mocked concerns about him imprisoning his political enemies.

Its unbelievable. Did you see Donald Trump wants to put us in jail, he said in North Carolina on Wednesday, parroting the alarm.

Donald Trump is going to go after some of the scum that you see back there, he continued, gesturing to the press pit at his rally. Theyre so dishonest. Donald Trump is doing terrible things. He wants to put us in prison. Thats what theyve been trying to do to me for three years they got this story mixed up.