Media twists Trump’s words about Liz Cheney — and his point

“TRUMP CALLS FOR CHENEY’S EXECUTION,” blared the Drudge Report, amplifying a completely phony outrage on Friday.

The Harris campaign and its media allies claimed to be shocked and appalled over Donald Trump’s words at a Thursday night hurricane-relief event in Arizona.

“She’s a radical war hawk. Let’s put her with a rifle standing there with nine barrels shooting at her, OK?” he said.

“Let’s see how she feels about it, you know, when the guns are trained on her face.

“You know they’re all war hawks when they’re sitting in Washington in a nice building saying, ‘Oh gee, let’s send 10,000 troops right into the mouth of the enemy.’ “

That is: He was arguing that Liz Cheney, like her father, is quick to put other people in harm’s way in the service of the US. Trump presents himself as the most anti-war president since the flower children.

Of course, Cheney, Team Harris and today’s left-leaning chattering class simply shared the tape without the second half of the statement, then waxed hysterical.

They even got Arizona’s (Democratic) attorney general to announce an investigation.

All just an effort to win the day’s “media cycle” in a week when bumbling Mark Cuban and Joe Biden kept handing victories to Team Trump: Just some simple editing and you finally have “confirmation” of the tired “threat to our democracy” theme.

And this follows the Harris folks’ effort to milk the insult comic’s stupid line on Sunday for the following three days, until Biden lost them the “garbage” war.

If Kamala Harris and Tim Walz had ever come up with some substantial policies beyond “I can’t think of anything I’d do differently,” the campaign wouldn’t be reduced to mining off-hand Trump remarks for “gotcha” moments.

Heck, Harris might even dare a three-hour sitdown with Joe Rogan.

But all they have are these little lies, plus the far bigger lie about Trump’s supposed secret plot to sign a national abortion ban that couldn’t pass either house of Congress even if Republicans have their best day ever next Tuesday.

They’ve collapsed from “vibes” and “joy” to distortions and fear.

It’s hard to believe the polls still show this to be a 50-50 race.

Thank God the campaign is nearly over, and America will be free of this particular nonsense until at least the next election season kicks off.