Donald Trump and his advisers are debating whether to call off plans to livestream the firing squad execution of the Fort Hood shooter, with Trump having remarked privately that he did not initially know that Nidal Hasan was paralyzed from the waist down, two sources familiar with the discussions told CNN.
The president was not aware that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth was announcing last week that the administration planned to let the public watch the execution, the sources said, and was not sure what to make of it at first. Trump was, however, firmly behind the decision to execute Hasan via firing squad, multiple officials told CNN, and he’s often defended it in public.
I’ve been telling people, this is to normalize public execution for “treason” the main demographic trump cared about was a soldier firing on other soldiers.
A big strong man standing there is a propaganda message.
But trumps never consider injured soldiers as soldiers, he “only likes winners”.
So dude being in a wheelchair wouldnt send the message the fascists want to send; that it doesn’t matter how tough you are they’ll get you.
It’s always just been about the optics of it, and using it to normalize political violence. That’s why he never faced a terrorism charge, they want the label to be “traitor” because that’s anyone not for the current administration.
Terrorists need to take action or at least plan actual attacks. They want to be able to go after anyone who doesn’t say they’re stunning and brave.
I think it’s because he can’t stir up Islamaphobia without a scary disheveled terrorist to execute and realized no one would ever consider a disabled prisoner a threat anymore but sure.
Didn’t they just use terrorism to sentence book sellers to 30 years though?
I’m honestly not sure what you’re trying to say…
The only logical assumption I can make is you somehow took my comment to mean they’re not going to charge anyone with terrorism charges …
But that would be ridiculous, so surely there’s something I’m missing.
Is that really what you thought I said, or is there sometime not thinking of?
They use the world terrorist just as freely as traitor. As long as it isn’t to describe any of their own terroristic or traitorous actions.
This clearly isn’t a requirement for using terrorism as a fear mongering label. They will call any ideology they don’t like terrorism.