Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz condemned former President Donald Trump’s violent comments about former Rep. Liz Cheney as “sickening but not surprising,” and said the remark offers another example of why he believes voters should elect Vice President Kamala Harris and keep Trump “nowhere near the Oval Office.”
Walz said in a SiriusXM radio interview that aired Friday that Trump suggesting Cheney is a “war hawk” who should face gunfire is “unacceptable behavior,” and linked the comments to a remark made by a Trump rally speaker at his New York City rally on Sunday referring to Puerto Rico as an “island of garbage.”
“Well, it’s sickening but not surprising. This is exactly what he does,” Walz said of Trump. “He totally disrespected fellow citizens in Puerto Rico. He continues to churn up this type of talk. It inspires his way of thinking about things. But the good news is that there’s an antidote to this, the firewall that is voting for Kamala Harris is how we stop this,” he said.
“When I hear it, yeah, it’s sickening, it’s un-American. But it also just inspires me and I hope it does a whole bunch for your listeners. This is why they need to go vote. This is why we need to put an end to this. This is why we need to get that new way forward that the vice president keeps talking about that is truly American,” he continued. “So it just inspires me to go work more. But it is unacceptable behavior and that’s why Donald Trump needs to get nowhere near the Oval Office.”
During a campaign event in Arizona on Thursday, Trump said that Cheney, a former Republican member of Congress who has endorsed Harris and campaigned alongside her on multiple occasions, is a “radical war hawk” and suggested she deserves to be fired upon.
“She’s a radical war hawk. Let’s put her with a rifle standing there with nine barrels shooting at her, OK?” the former president said at a campaign event in Glendale, Arizona, with former Fox News host Tucker Carlson. “Let’s see how she feels about it, you know, when the guns are trained on her face.”
