Even Trump’s haters aren’t buying Liz Cheney’s spin on his comments: ‘Bald-faced lie’

To their credit, a handful of prominent left-wingers have defended former President Donald Trump from the latest corporate media hoax.

As previously reported, while speaking at an event in Arizona this Thursday, the former president suggested disgraced former Rep. Liz Cheney wouldn’t be such a war-hungry neocon if she were forced to fight on the battlefield alongside other soldiers.

“I don’t blame [former Vice President Dick Cheney] for sticking with his daughter, but his daughter is a very dumb individual,” he began. “Very dumb, she’s a radical war hawk. Let’s put her with a rifle standing there with nine barrels shooting at her, OK? 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 the nice buildings saying ‘Oh gee well, let’s send 10,000 troops right into the mouth of the enemy,'” he added.

In response to his remarks, virtually the entire corporate propaganda media rushed to report that he’d called for Cheney’s murder:

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

MSNBC’s Jonathan Lemire, meanwhile, called it “the latest escalation of really dangerous, violent rhetoric,” and former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie claimed it “absolutely” was a threat to kill Cheney.

Even Cheney, a known fabulist, got in on the hoax:

The shameless, propagandistic lies were too much for some on the left who, thankfully, still have at least some semblance of principles left. Take former GOP congressman turned Never Trump leftist Joe Walsh.

“Trump did NOT call for Liz Cheney to be executed,” Walsh boldly tweeted on Friday. “Look, you know how I feel about Trump, and I’ve been out there every day for 2-3 months campaigning my ass off to help get @KamalaHarris elected, but this short clip is so deceptive.”

“Trump is NOT calling for Liz Cheney to be executed in front of a firing line. He’s not. Listen to the entirety of what he said. He’s an utterly horrible human being who’s utterly unfit for office, but the truth should always matter. And the truth is that Trump is not calling for Liz Cheney to be executed,” he added.

Look:

Cenk Uygur, the founder of The Young Turks, also defended Trump, though in a more of a half-a**ed way.

“Donald Trump did not call for the execution of Liz Cheney,” he tweeted. “That is a bald-faced lie. He was making a point about how she is a chickenhawk. But also, Trump shouldn’t talk about guns being ‘trained on her face,’ especially in a time where we’re worried about political violence.”

“This is a classic case of Trump saying something outrageous and the press bailing him out by being purposely misleading. You didn’t have to lie about it for the comment to be totally irresponsible. And when you do, you lose all credibility and no one believes anything you say,” he added.

Look:

Kat Rosenfield, a feminist writer of all people, also defended Trump.

“I don’t support Donald Trump but I also don’t support journalists lying to their audiences, 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 is actually not the same thing as saying they should be shot,” she tweeted.

Even Zack Beauchamp, a writer for the leftist Vox, had the decency to call out the lies of the legacy propaganda press.

“Folks, Trump didn’t threaten to execute Liz Cheney,” he tweeted. “He actually was calling her a chickenhawk, something liberals said about her for ages. Look at the context — Trump is talking about giving her a weapon. Typically, people put in front of firing squads aren’t armed.”

Last up is longtime principled liberal journalist Glenn Greenwald:

The problem is that members of the dying legacy press are so full of themselves that they abjectly refuse to look in the mirror.

Below is a perfect case in point:

Vivek Saxena

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