Trump issues brutal insult to Liz Cheney before she takes the stage with Kamala Harris

Donald Trump took no prisoners when he said the alliance between 'stupid war hawk' Liz Cheney and Kamala Harris will be 'bad for both of them.'

Cheney called Donald Trump 'depraved' and mocked his 'spray-tanning' as she campaigned for the first time for Democratic nominee Harris Thursday.

The ex-Wyoming Congresswoman joined Harris onstage in Ripon, Wisconsin - considered the birthplace of the Republican Party - and asked her fellow Republicans to cross the aisle and vote for a Democrat, one she previously called a 'radical leftist.' 

Trump was not exactly moved by their union when asked about it, saying: 'Liz Cheney lost for Congress, she was terrible.' 

'Liz Cheney is a stupid war hawk, all she wants to do is shoot missiles at people,' Trump added.

He then predicted a poor outcome for the vice president and the former vice president Dick Cheney's daughter.

'I really think it hurts. I think frankly, if Kamala... I think they hurt each other! I think they're so bad, both of them,' he added, barely able to contain his amusement. 

Cheney was emphatic about her support for Harris in her November race against Trump on Thursday. 

'I tell you, I have never voted for a Democrat, but this year, I am proudly casting my vote for Vice President Kamala Harris,' Cheney said, then echoed the Harris-Walz campaign slogan, 'we're not going back.' 

The ousted Wyoming lawmaker noted how she, as a 10-year-old, was sealing envelopes for Republican President Gerald Ford's reelection campaign, cast her first vote for Republican President Ronald Reagan in 1984, served in both Bush administrations and served as the third most powerful GOP member in the House. 

'In other words, I was a Republican even before Donald Trump started spray-tanning,' she said, garnering laughs.

The rest of her speech was far more serious in tone. 

She talked about how the 'most conservative of conservative values is fidelity to the Constitution,' something Trump didn't show when he tried to overturn the election four years ago. 

'In this election, putting patriotism ahead of partisanship is not an aspiration, it is our duty,' Cheney said. 

Cheney, one of only two GOP members of the House Select Committee on January 6, recalled how when Trump was informed that the angry mob outside the Capitol on January 6 wanted to hang Vice President Mike Pence he uttered, 'So what?' 

'He said, "So what?"' she repeated, cuing 'nooooooos' from the crowd. 

She said that Trump's closest aides provided this information as well.  

'They said while the attack on our capitol was happening Donald Trump was handed a note informing him that a civilian had been shot at the door of the chamber of the United States of Representatives,' Cheney recalled. 'Donald Trump put the note down on the table in front of him, continued to watch the atttack on television and still refused to tell the mob to leave the Capitol.'

'That is depravity and we must never become numb to it,' she said.  

She reminded the audience that 20 years ago, when she was campaigning for her father's reelection bid, he and President George W. Bush considered themselves 'compassionate conservatives.' 

'What January 6 shows us is that there is not an ounce, not an ounce of compassion in Donald Trump,' she said. 'He is petty, he is vindictive and he is cruel.' 

'And Donald Trump is not fit to lead this good and great nation,' the former House member added. 

Cheney's comments Thursday were a departure from four years ago when she referred to Harris as a 'radical leftist.' 

When Harris was picked to be President Joe Biden's VP, Cheney blasted the choice saying the then-California senator had a 'more liberal voting record than Bernie Sanders & Elizabeth Warren.' 

Cheney warned that Harris' liberal positions on abortion, immigration and healthcare 'would be devastating for America,' in a tweet from August 2020. 

However Cheney announced in September that she would be voting for Harris after being ousted by Wyoming voters over becoming Congress' most prominent anti-Trump Republican.

Ripon is significant because the one-room schoolhouse there, built in 1853, is a National Historic Landmark for its role as being the site of meetings that helped form the Republican Party in 1854. 

The Harris campaign is trying to peel away Republican and independent voters from Trump, playing up his role in January 6 and refusal to admit he lost the 2020 election - the same reasons Cheney, Kinzinger and other ex-Trump aides say they're not supporting him.