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Election 2024 live updates: Trump hits North Carolina; Harris to stump in Georgia
Trump called into Fox News’ “Fox & Friends” this morning before his day of campaigning in North Carolina and again defended his violent comments about Republican former Rep. Liz Cheney earlier this week.
“All I said is, let’s see how she does,” Trump said. “I said, put a gun in her hand and let her go out and let her face the enemy with a gun in her hand.” Trump also called Cheney a “female bully.”
The former president suggested in an interview with former Fox News host Tucker Carlson in Arizona on Thursday night that Cheney would not be such “a radical war hawk” if she were sent to fight “with a rifle standing there with nine barrels shooting at her.”
“Let’s see how she feels about it, you know, when the guns are trained on her face,” Trump continued. “You know, they’re all war hawks when they’re sitting in Washington in a nice building.”
On “Fox & Friends” this morning, Trump also addressed the backlash over racist remarks a comedian made about Puerto Rico at the former president’s rally in New York City last weekend. Trump restated his claim that nobody’s done more for the U.S. territory then him, saying that he had no idea who the comedian was and that the coverage of the offensive comments had “stained” the entire evening.
“They made this one comedian telling one little joke early in the show, when nobody had even started going into the arena practically, they made this comedian and they made the whole weekend, and they took out this gorgeous, unbelievable patriotic evening, and they sort of stained it a little bit by a comedian that I have no idea who he is,” Trump said.