GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) — Former President Donald Trump launched another attack on former representative Liz Cheney Thursday night, calling the former Wyoming Republican congresswoman a “war hawk” and suggesting she might not be as willing to send troops into combat if she had guns pointed at her.

At an event in Glendale, Arizona, with former Fox News host Tucker Carlson, the Republican presidential candidate was asked if it was strange to see Cheney campaigning against him. Cheney has sharply opposed Trump since the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol and has become a surrogate for his Democratic opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris.

Trump called Cheney a “deranged person” then added, “But the reason she couldn’t stand me is because she always wanted to go to war with people.” If it were up to her, we’d be in 50 different countries.

After calling Cheney “a very stupid individual,” he said, “He is a radical war hawk. Let’s put her there with the nine-barreled shotgun shooting at her. Okay, let’s see what she thinks. You know, when the guns are pointed in his face.

“You know, they’re all war hawks when they sit in Washington in a nice building and say, oh gee, let’s send 10,000 troops straight into the mouth of the enemy,” Trump said.

After Harris’ campaign and other Trump critics on social media pounced on the quote, Trump’s campaign responded that he was “talking about how Liz Cheney wants to send the sons and daughters of ‘America fights wars when it has never been in war itself.’

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