Vance suggests Nidal Hasans execution wont be livestreamed, contradicting Hegseth

Vice President JD Vance suggested Friday that the federal government would not livestream its planned execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan by firing squad, contradicting the plan announced by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.“First of all, I’ve seen these announcements.I don’t know that that’s going to happen,” Vance told reporters while traveling to a campaign event in Ohio.

He said that if the execution, which is scheduled for December, is livestreamed that he wouldn’t watch it.“But what I try to remind people is: look, this is a guy who committed, in my view, the worst terrorist attack on American soil outside of 9/11,” the vice president said.

Hasan was convicted of killing 13 people and injuring 32 in a shooting at Texas’ Fort Hood Army base in 2009.While visiting the USS Abraham Lincoln as it docked in San Diego on Thursday, Hegseth told conservative news outlet Real America’s Voice that Hasan is “going to get a firing squad of soldiers, and we’ll make sure that people are able to watch it.”It wasn’t immediately clear Friday why Vance contradicted Hegseth.

The White House and Pentagon didn’t immediately respond to requests for comment.Nidal Hasan in court in 2015.Bell County Sheriff's DepartmentThe decision to publicly show Hasan’s execution has been met with intense backlash from both some Republicans and many Democrats.

Sen.John Kennedy, R-La., who has said he is considering a run for president in 2028, opposes broadcasting the execution.

“If it were me, I wouldn’t I wouldn’t televise it or publicize it or whatever they’re doing,” Kennedy said Friday while campaigning with GOP Senate candidate Mike Rogers in Sterling Heights, Michigan.“I just think it makes — it makes our society coarser, and I wouldn’t do it.

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