Arizona AG Kris Mayes ends probe into Trump's 'war hawk' remarks about Liz Cheney

President-elect Donald Trump had already scored several major legal victories while he successfully ran for a second term in the White House, and his win cemented severe additional victories.

According to reports, Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes announced on Tuesday that she had decided to drop an investigation into Trump over comments he made about Liz Cheney.

AG Mayes correctly determined that Trump's comments were protected speech, therefore providing no grounds for charges related to what he said about her.

Mayes explained to reporters at a recent event that Trump's "war hawk" comment "very likely may have been an effort to intimidate Cheney," but noted that there was “no reasonable likelihood that we could obtain a conviction for Trump’s statements."

The Arizona attorney general has closed a probe into President-elect Donald Trump’s comment about “war hawk” Liz Cheney. Saying that Cheney would understand war if she had “nine barrels” pointed at her during combat is free speech, not criminal.https://t.co/FPx4WzBqwc

— Cowboy State Daily (@daily_cowboy) November 15, 2024

"We think it's equally likely a reasonable person could conclude Trump was discussing war, and Liz Cheney not wanting to go to war," Mayes added in her explanation, much to the disappointment of fellow Trump-hating Dems.

A quick refresher on what Trump actually said makes it clear to anyone that he was in no way shape or form attempting to intimidate Cheney.

"She’s a radical war hawk. Let’s put her with a rifle standing there with nine barrels shooting at her, OK?” Trump said at a campaign event around Halloween.

He added, “Let’s see how she feels about it, you know, when the guns are trained on her face."

Of course, the mainstream media and Trump's political opponents made a mountain out of a mole hill regarding his comments and tried their best to twist them out of context and gaslight viewers into believing that Trump threatened the former Wyoming Republican lawmaker.

At the time, even Cheney considered the remark a "threat."

"This is how dictators destroy free nations," Cheney said after his remarks.

"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."

Luckily for Arizona residents, Mayes will not continue to waste taxpayer resources in pursuing the "investigation" into Trump.