Did former Republican lawmaker Liz Cheney post on X that Donald Trump "is now literally threatening" to kill her? No, that's not true: That post came from a self-described parody account. It attributed a fake screenshot of another, nonexistent account on X to Cheney.
The claim appeared in a post (archived here) on X on November 1, 2024. The post said:
Liz Cheney SLAMS Trump for his threats 🔥
It continued with a quote:
Donald Trump is now literally threatening to
have me killed.
If you don't want to live in a bananna republic
run by an senile man with some sort of Daffy
Duck disease, vote for Kamala.
This is what the post looked like on X at the time of writing:
(Source: X screenshot taken on Sat Nov 2 16:23:33 2024 UTC)
The post in question shared what looked like a screenshot of another account on X. However, that second account showed the word "parody" at the bottom and used the word "Rub" where the month would go. Also, the counterfeit post misspelled Cheney's last name.
A search for the @Liz_Choney account on X (archived here) seen in the "screenshot" showed no results:
(Source: X screenshot taken on Sat Nov 2 16:36:33 2024 UTC)
The account that posted the claim reviewed in this fact check wrote in its bio (archived here):
This account itself is not a parody but most of the images we share are parodies.
Cheney's authentic account on X can be found here (archived here). A Google search across it for a key phrase from the "screenshot" seen here (archived here) produced zero results:
(Source: Google screenshot taken on Sat Nov 2 17:18:50 2024 UTC)
On November 1, 2024, Cheney published a different post (archived here):
(Source: X screenshot taken on Sat Nov 2 16:52:30 2024 UTC)
In the 2024 presidential campaign, Cheney (archived here), a former Republican lawmaker and a member (archived here) of the House of Representatives January 6 Committee (archived here), endorsed Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris (archived here).
In the post above, Cheney replied to Trump's remarks, made on October 31, 2024. On that day, as seen in the C-SPAN video (archived here) at the 01:10:08 mark, the Republican presidential nominee referred first to her father -- former Vice President Dick Cheney, who said he would support Trump in 2016 (archived here) and Harris in 2024 (archived here). Trump said of Dick Cheney:
He said, 'I'm so glad that I actually endorsed you'... go a couple of years forward, go now -- and I don't blame him for sticking with his daughter. But his daughter is a very dumb individual, 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 a nice building saying, 'Oh, gee, well, let's send, let's send 10,000 troops right into the mouth of the enemy'. But she's a stupid person. And I used to have, I have meetings with a lot of people, and she always wanted to go to war with people.
Other Lead Stories fact checks of the claims about the 2024 U.S. presidential campaign can be found here.
