Even liberal Trump critics blast media coverage of his Liz Cheney comments: ‘A bald-faced lie’

The backlash the legacy media is facing over its coverage of former President Trump’s recent comments about former Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., goes far beyond his supporters.

At an event in Glendale, Arizona, Trump took a swipe at Cheney, who has campaigned in support of Vice President Kamala Harris, for being a “radical war hawk.”

“I don’t blame (former Vice President Dick Cheney) for sticking with his daughter, but his daughter is a very stupid person. Very stupid, she’s a radical war hawk. Let’s put her with a rifle standing there with nine barrels firing against her, okay, let’s see how she feels about it when the guns are trained on her face,” Trump said. “You know they’re all war hawks when they’re sitting in Washington in those nice buildings saying ‘Oh, well, let’s send 10,000 soldiers right into the mouth of the enemy.’

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Several news organizations twisted Trump’s comments to suggest he called for Cheney’s “execution.”

The New York Times headlined “Trump Attacks Liz Cheney Using Violent War Images.” The Washington Post published “Trump suggests ‘war hawk’ Liz Cheney should have guns ‘trained on her face’.” CNN’s headline went even further, reading: “Trump says ‘war hawk’ Liz Cheney should be fired in escalating violent rhetoric against his opponents.”

The Drudge report went viral with its headline at the top of the page in bold red caps, “TRUMP CALLS FOR CHENEY’S EXECUTION.”

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The sensational coverage also happened on air.

“Former President Donald Trump is escalating his violent rhetoric and suggesting that one of his most prominent critics, former Congresswoman Liz Cheney, should be fired,” CNN anchor Kasie Hunt told viewers.

Hunt’s CNN colleague Jim Acosta grilled Rep. Tim Burchett, R-Tenn., over Trump’s comments, saying, “When he says nine barrels are firing at her, of course it conjures up images of a firing squad. It conjures up images of an execution, does doesn’t it?”

MSNBC’s Jonathan Lemire called it “the latest escalation of really dangerous, violent rhetoric,” while former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie told “The View” co-hosts it was “absolutely” a threat to Cheney.

However, not everyone buys the story. And not just Trump’s defenders.

Critics of the former president across the political spectrum are calling for media coverage.

“Trump did NOT call for Liz Cheney to be executed,” former GOP congressman and anti-Trump critic Joe Walsh responded to X. “Look, you know how I feel about Trump and I’ve been out there every day for 2-3 months in the campaign to help get @KamalaHarris elected, but this short clip is so misleading that Liz Cheney needs to be executed in front of a firing line.”

“He is an absolutely horrible human being who is completely unfit for office, but the truth should always matter. And the truth is that Trump is not calling for Liz Cheney to be executed,” Walsh added.

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“Donald Trump did not call for the execution of Liz Cheney. That is a bald-faced lie,” wrote The Young Turks’ Cenk Uygur. “He made a point about how she’s a chicken hawk. But also, Trump shouldn’t be talking about guns being ‘trained on her face,’ especially at a time when we’re worried about political violence.”

“This is a classic case of Trump saying something outrageous and the press bailing him out by being deliberately misleading. You didn’t have to lie about it for the comment to be totally irresponsible. And when you do that, you lose all credibility and no, you believe everything you say,” continued Uygur.

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“I don’t support Donald Trump, but I also don’t support reporters lying to their audience, and when he says (paraphrased) “these pro-war people wouldn’t be talking such a big game if they were on the front lines, it’s actually not same as saying they should be shot,” said The Free Press columnist Kat Rosenfield.

“Folks, Trump didn’t threaten to execute Liz Cheney,” said Vox correspondent Zack Beauchamp. “He actually called her a chicken, something liberals have been saying about her for ages. Look at the context — Trump is talking about giving her a gun. Typically, people who are put in front of firing squads are not armed.

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Political scientist Ian Bremmer blasted the Drudge Report’s headline, saying, “this is extraordinary irresponsibility, only exacerbated by the fact that it is increasingly common across the political spectrum in the United States.

“The Trump ‘massacre’ comment and his latest one about Liz Cheney have both been exaggerated and taken out of context, all while the press imagines apostrophes to excuse Joe Biden. This is why trust in the press is collapsing and why Trump is on the brink of winning,” conservative radio host Erick Erickson pointed out.

“The corporate media has completely given up even pretending to maintain a small pretense of partisan neutrality,” wrote journalist Glenn Greenwald. “Compare this WashPost ‘news article’ about what Trump said to what he actually said. This is why, as Bezos told them, no one trusts them: deservedly so.”

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