Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes has launched an investigation into former President Donald Trump’s comments about former Congresswoman Liz Cheney.
“I have already asked my criminal division chief to start looking at that statement, analyzing it for whether it qualifies as a death threat under Arizona’s laws,” Mayes said during a taping of “Sunday Square Off” on 12NEWS, as reported by NBC News.
“I’m not prepared now to say whether it was or it wasn’t, but it is not helpful as we prepare for our election and as we try to make sure that we keep the peace at our polling places and in our state,” Mayes explained.
The situation surrounds Trump telling Tucker Carlson during an event in Arizona, “[Cheney’s] a radical war hawk. Let’s put her with a rifle standing there with nine barrels shooting at her. Okay. Let’s see how she feels about it, you know, when the guns are trained on her face.”
Trump went on to say: “They’re all war hawks when they’re sitting in Washington in a nice building, saying, ‘Oh, gee will. Let’s send ten thousand troops right into the mouth of the enemy.’ But, she’s a stupid person, and I used to have meetings with a lot of people and she always wanted to go to war with people…”
Trump reiterated on Truth Social that Cheney is a “War Hawk, and a dumb one at that, but she wouldn’t have ‘the guts’ to fight herself.”
“It’s easy for her to talk, sitting far from where the death scenes take place, but put a gun in her hand, and let her go fight, and she’ll say, ‘No thanks!’ Her father decimated the Middle East, and other places, and got rich by doing so. He’s caused plenty of DEATH, and probably never even gave it a thought. That’s not what we want running our Country!”
Lawyer Harmeet Dhillon criticized the investigation on X, writing, “There’s nothing to investigate. Mayes has no jurisdiction. This is professional misconduct.”
