AG ends investigation into Trump's Liz Cheney comments

Donald Trump was under investigation for some comments he made, but those investigations appear to be wrapping up without Trump facing any consequences.

According to CowboyStateDaily, "Arizona’s Attorney General Kris Mayes on Tuesday said she has ended an investigation into Donald Trump’s comments about Liz Cheney being a war hawk, stating that the comments were protected speech."

The investigation focused on Donald Trump's claim that Liz Cheney is a "war hawk." Kris Mayes' investigation showed that there was "no reasonable likelihood that we could obtain a conviction for Trump’s statements."

These were the comments in question:

"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."

Hayes concluded that Trump's statement "very likely may have been an effort to intimidate Cheney," but said "we think it's equally likely a reasonable person could conclude Trump was discussing war, and Liz Cheney not wanting to go to war."

Liz Cheney and the mainstream media immediately and incorrectly stated that Donald Trump had threatened her.

"This is how dictators destroy free nations," Cheney said. "They threaten those who speak against them with death. We cannot entrust our country and our freedom to a petty, vindictive, cruel, unstable man who wants to be a tyrant."

Even people who have been purely anti-Trump in the past are saying that Cheney is taking the comments out of context:

"Donald Trump did not call for the execution of Liz Cheney," founder of the Democratic group The Young Turks said. "That is a bald-faced lie. He was making a point about how she is a chickenhawk."

Even after the investigation, Trump's campaign is still standing behind his comments.

"President Trump is 100% correct that warmongers like Liz Cheney are very quick to start wars and send other Americans to fight them, rather than go into combat themselves," spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt said.

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