Trump Cancels Livestream of Muslim Terrorist Hasan’s Execution

President Trump has canceled livestreaming of the execution of Muslim mass murderer and terrorist Malik Nidal Hasan.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had said the execution would be livestreamed, which means Trump overruled him. Though Trump had said he had “absolutely” OK’d it, he reversed course yesterday on Truth Social.

Hasan, will however, still face a firing squad on December 3 barring successful appeal.

The Muslim extremist murdered 13 people and wounded 32 on November 9, 2009.

Hegseth: “People [Can] Watch”

Hegseth spoke candidly about the controversial decision to broadcast the execution to conservative commentator Jack Posobiec.

“He’s gonna get a firing squad of soldiers,” Hegseth said:

As it should be. We’ll make sure that people are able to watch it. That it’s public. Because people need to understand that there’s serious consequences for these types of things.

Trump said he approved the broadcast.

“Did you personally authorize or approve the execution, the livestreamed execution” of Hasan, a reporter asked.

“Did I approve?” Trump asked:

Absolutely I did. Absolutely, I did!

Speaking on CNBC’s Squawk Box, Brendan Carr, chief of the Federal Communications Commission, said the livestream falls outside his agency’s regulatory powers.

“The Pentagon has not indicated that the execution will be broadcast on television, and major networks have not said they plan to carry the feed,” The Washington Post reported:

But broadcasters could still pick up the live feed if no restrictions are set.

“I trust what [Defense] Secretary [Pete] Hegseth said. He’s implementing the laws and the regulations that are, you know, relevant to the Department of War, and I think he’s doing a great job, and I trust that he’s making the right call on these issues,” Carr said.

When pressed on whether the FCC would allow Pentagon officials to broadcast the execution if they wanted to, Carr responded, “Ultimately, we’re going to defer to Secretary Hegseth and his decisions on how to move forward with this.”

Vice President JD Vance suggested that the execution might not be livestreamed. And in any event, he said, he wouldn’t watch it. 

X fury ensued after Hegseth’s interview went viral. Noting that not even the executions of Nazi war criminals were televised, podcaster Glenn Greenwald said the livestream would be a “disgusting spectacle.”

Former U.S. counterterrorism chief Joe Kent called such a livestream “beneath the dignity and decency of our nation.”

Some MAGA conservatives enthusiastically supported the idea.

“Will be watching,” an X user wrote, while another called the livestream a “great idea.”

“I’ll be there,” a third wrote.

Journalist Nick Sortor, who announced the plan on his X feed, said the squeamish need not watch.

“For those complaining that you “don’t want to watch a terrorist be executed…,” he wrote:

“Don’t! NOBODY is forcing you to do so.

But I believe it’s important to set an example: kiIIing American soldiers results in PUBLIC EXECUTION”

Reversal

True enough, but whether to watch it now is no longer a decision anyone must make.

Blaming Hasan’s terror murders 17 years ago on an Obama administration intelligence failure, Trump announced that the livestream is canceled.

“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, through streaming, or through any other visual device,” Trump wrote:

He will die, as scheduled, by firing squad, but this event will not be streamed. That said, the execution may be viewed in person by the immediate families of the victims, if they so choose. They deserve to witness JUSTICE! Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Trump’s message did not deter supporters of the livestream.

“This needs to be live-streamed!” one wrote:

“These barbarians need to see that we will deal with them by eliminating them!”

Wrote another angry commenter:

This is bullsh*t! After seeing Americans beheaded on their live stream from the middle east, this is typical America SOFT bullsh*t. These terrorists must SEE JUSTICE!

Daily Wire podcaster Matt Walsh correctly observed that the announcement and reversal were sloppy and “inexcusable.”

“Why would you publicly announce something as dramatic as a live-streamed execution if you weren’t absolutely sure you wanted to do it and hadn’t already thought through all of the very predictable and inevitable blowback you would get?” he wrote on X:

This makes it seem like they just kind of off the cuff floated the idea of killing someone on a live stream and then changed their mind when people were upset about it. Totally ridiculous, no matter how you feel about the public execution idea. No excuse to handle it this way. You need to go into something like this very thoughtfully, with seriousness of purpose and a sense of the gravity of the situation. Instead we get a casual announcement of a public execution and then a casual retraction on social media a few days later. Absurd.

Why Hasan Wasn’t Stopped

An Army psychiatrist, Hasan could have been stopped, but politically correct fears of offending someone prevented the Pentagon from stopping him before his rampage.

The Defense Department “possessed compelling evidence that Hasan embraced views so extreme that it should have disciplined him or discharged him from the military, but DoD failed to take action against him,” a U.S. Senate report revealed:

Indeed, a number of policies on commanders’ authority, extremism, and personnel gave supervisors in his chain of command the authority to take such actions. It is clear from this failure that DoD lacks the institutional culture, through updated policies and training, sufficient to inform commanders and all levels of service members how to identify radicalization to violent Islamist extremism and to distinguish this ideology from the peaceful practice of Islam.

In other words, the Army was worried about “diversity” and “inclusion” and not a deranged Mohammedan in its ranks.

Days after Hasan’s terrorist mass murder, then-Army Chief of Staff General George Casey, Jr. expressed concern on national television not about more Muslim jihadists who might perpetrate another mass murder, but about whether Hasan’s deeds might “cause a backlash against some of our Muslim soldiers.”

On April 2, 2014, Army Specialist Ivan Lopez-Lopez murdered three people and injured 14 before turning his gun on himself.