Hasan "will die, as scheduled, by firing squad, but this event will not be streamed," Trump wrote.
Trump said the firing-squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan won’t be livestreamed — contradicting an announcement by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.
The president said only immediate families of the victims of the mass shooting in 2009 would witness the execution of Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan.
President Trump on Wednesday said he was canceling the livestream of the execution of Nidal Malik Hasan, the former U.S. Army major who killed 13 people in the 2009 attack on Fort Hood. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had said the execution would be livestreamed, a decision that had come under substantial criticism, including from GOP…
President Donald Trump reversed the Pentagon's plan to livestream Nidal Hasan's firing squad execution, saying the event could deter terrorism but many Americans would rather not watch.
Hasan murdered 13 people and injured more than 32 others in the mass shooting at Fort Hood in Texas.
President Trump is backing down from plans to livestream the execution of Fort Hood mass shooter Nidal Malik Hassan. “I think streaming the execution for all to see might have been a strong deterrent for the World to witness how America deals with Terrorists and SCUM like Hasan but, many very good and well meaning people would rather not watch him die,…
The president reversed Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s decision after backlash.
President Donald Trump announced Thursday that the execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan via firing squad will not be livestreamed. “Nidal Malik Hasan, a former U.S. Army Major turned traitor, is a very bad and evil man, who killed 13 people, including a pregnant soldier, who died, along with her unborn son, and injured,…
