Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth is making America a national embarrassment, MS NOW’s Jen Psaki warned on Friday’s edition of “The Briefing.”
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The main issue this time: his plan to have a man shot by firing squad on livestream — a plan even some Republicans are coming out against.
“In case you missed it, yesterday, the Pentagon announced that they want to hold a public execution of the Fort Hood shooter,” said Psaki, adding that he wants it “livestreamed on the internet for the world to see.” She played a clip of him justifying it.
“No-brainer execution,” said Hegseth to reporters. “By firing squad, he’s going to get a firing squad of soldiers, as it should be, and we’ll make sure that people are able to to watch it, that it’s public, because people need to understand that this is a serious consequence for these types of things.”
“He just said, as it should be, he called it a no-brainer,” said Psaki. “Those are the words the Secretary of Defense used to describe the first public execution in America that he’s proposing since the 1930s.” Moreover, she added, there was no TV or internet in the 1930s, so even a public execution back then wasn’t what it would be now.
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“It should come as no surprise that people around the world saw this announcement quite differently than he did,” said Psaki, rattling off international newspapers’ reactions. “Here’s the headline in the British publication The Guardian: ‘Medieval’ and ‘disturbing’ U.S. plan to livestream execution elicits global condemnation. United Nations called the plan ‘abhorrent.’ There’s also the fact that just two countries still do public executions: Iran and Afghanistan. We would be the third. It’s not great company to be in.”
Furthermore, said Psaki, while even Vice President J.D. Vance has tried to distance himself from the whole thing, “President Trump himself seemed inclined to go along with this plan.”
Psaki cut to a clip of Trump saying that the shooter “will be killed” and that he enthusiastically supports the livestreaming of the execution.
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