The entire panel on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" was left almost speechless on Friday morning after watching a clip of Donald Trump rambling about having guns pointed at former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY).
During an interview with fired Fox News personality Tucker Carlson on Thursday, the former president accused Cheney of wanting to start too many foreign wars and then suggested, "Let’s put her with a rifle standing there with 9 barrels shooting at her. Let’s see how she feels about it. You know, when the guns are trained on her face.”
Co-host Joe Scarborough was aghast that this was how Trump was spending the final days of the 2024 presidential campaign.
"Let's just, again, look at this from 30,000 feet," he said. "This is how Donald Trump ends his campaign, calling for nine rifles aimed at Liz Cheney's face, to shoot at her face. This is how Donald Trump is ending his campaign for president."
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"Yeah, it's a staggering moment here as we make the turn into the critical final weekend," grim-faced co-host Willie Geist contributed. "We can already anticipate, it's probably already happening, what the response will be. 'Oh, he didn't mean that literally, Joe. come on. You guys always blow these things out of proportion.' How many times does he have to say things like this, though? You can't take these in a vacuum."
"Maybe a flip comment to him, maybe something he was throwing off the cuff. Maybe he meant she should go to war herself, stand there and feel what it is like to be there in battle –– but we know his supporters take these signals literally," he warned.
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