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Trump
suggests final decision has not been made on whether execution of Fort Hood
gunman will be streamed live
On his
way to a rally for Republicans in upstate New York on Friday, Donald Trump was
asked about the controversy over his defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, saying
that the execution of the gunman who killed 13 people at Fort Hood in Texas in
2009 would be livestreamed.
Hours
after his vice-president, JD Vance, said that he did not know if the killing of
Nidal Hasan, the former army psychiatrist, would be streamed live, Trump was
asked by a reporter: “Do you want the execution of the Fort Hood shooter to be
livestreamed? And are you worried that the video would be used as propaganda?”
“Well,
they’re making a determination about that,” Trump said. “But he will be, uh,
killed. He will be, through firing squad. He killed 13, 14 people,” the
president said.
“He’s
totally nuts, so I really don’t care how he goes, as long as he goes,” Trump
continued. “And I think that the death penalty is a very worthy way of going
for him.”
The
president then ignored a follow-up question about whether he would watch the
execution.
Several
Republican lawmakers joined Democrats and human rights advocates in condemning
Hegseth’s idea that the execution should be streamed live.
Minutes
later, Trump leaned in to listen to a follow-up question from a Brazilian
correspondent, Raquel Krähenbühl, who asked, in slightly imperfect English:
“Did you personally authorize or approve the execution, the livestream
execution of the Fort Hood-”
“Did I
approve?” Trump cut in to ask.
“Did you
approve?” the reporter repeated.
“Absolutely,”
Trump said, although it was not entirely clear if he either heard or was
responding to the part of the question about the execution being streamed live.
As Trump
walked away, Krähenbühl sought to clarify, shouting “the live-streaming?” but
the president did not reply audibly.
The
correspondent for Brazil’s TV Globo later shared video of her exchange with
Trump on social media, in which he did appear to nod in response to her
follow-up question about the live stream.
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