Donald Trump is rebutting the “fascist” charge in the final days of the campaign by publicly fantasizing about one of his leading critics facing what sounds an awful lot like a military firing squad.

Speaking with Tucker Carlson, an ex-Fox News anchor who recently interviewed a Holocaust denier and claimed that he was physically attacked by a “demon” — such is the state of American conservatism — Trump lambasted former Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., as a “deranged person” who only dislikes him because, in his telling, he’s reluctant to invade other countries.

“The reason she couldn’t stand me is that she always wanted to go to war with people. If it were up to her we’d be in 50 different countries,” Trump claimed. “She’s a radical war hawk. Let’s put her with the 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.”

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The former president and three-time Republican nominee has in recent weeks repeated his call for using the military to go after “the enemy within.” Over the summer, he also shared a post on social media declaring Cheney “GUILTY OF TREASON” and calling for her and other such traitors to be subjected to “TELEVISED MILITARY TRIBUNALS.”

A generous assessment of Trump’s remarks would be that he’s just engaged in typical antiwar rhetoric, lambasting........

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