Hillary Clinton faced criticism after describing Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s reported plan to livestream the execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan as “barbaric,” with a resurfaced video showing her reaction to Muammar Gaddafi’s death drawing renewed attention.
President Donald Trump had backed Hasan’s execution by firing squad during a political event in Texas on Wednesday, saying the convicted killer “deserves it,” while stopping short of endorsing Hegseth’s livestream proposal.
Clinton, Trump’s 2016 election opponent and a persistent critic of the president, addressed the proposal in a social media post.
“A barbaric idea, beneath our dignity as a country. Push back on this,” she wrote.
Although the former secretary of state typically disables replies to her posts, critics responded by pointing to her reaction after Gaddafi was killed in 2011.
“We came, we saw, he died,” Clinton joked and laughed when reporters told her that the Libyan leader had been killed.
Gaddafi’s death was not broadcast live, but graphic photographs and video of his capture and body circulated on television and online.
“But I thought you really enjoy watching public executions,” one critic wrote in response.
Hillary Clinton was criticized after calling a proposal to livestream the Fort Hood shooter’s execution “barbaric,” as a video of her reaction to Muammar Gaddafi’s death resurfaced.
Trump had endorsed Hasan’s execution by firing squad during a political event in Texas, saying the convicted killer “deserves it” while remaining noncommittal about livestreaming the execution.
‘You cheered when Gaddafi was publicly sodomized to death,’ added Jack Posobiec.
‘Hillary does her executions in private, like a lady,’ joked another.
Trump remained noncommittal Friday when asked whether he wanted the execution livestreamed. “Well, they’re making a determination about that,” he told reporters before traveling to a political event in Syracuse, New York.
He again expressed support for using a firing squad.
“He will be killed. He will be, through firing squad,” Trump told reporters. “I really don’t care how he goes, as long as he goes. And I think the death penalty is a very worthy way of going for him.”
Trump did not respond when asked whether he would watch a livestream of the execution.
Vice President JD Vance said Friday that he would not watch the execution if it were livestreamed under the plan being considered by the Trump administration.
“I mean, look, if it’s all through livestream, I’m not going to be watching it,” Vance told reporters while traveling to Lima, Ohio, for a campaign rally.
The former secretary of state generally disables replies to her social media posts, but critics challenged her over her reaction to Gaddafi’s death in 2011.
Vance called Hasan’s attack “the worst terrorist attack on American soil outside of 9/11.”
“He took them at their most vulnerable and gunned them down, these people where they lived,” Vance said.
The vice president also questioned whether Hasan’s execution would ultimately be livestreamed.
‘I don’t know if that’s actually going to happen,’ he said, when asked about the planned livestream.
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Vance indicated that Hasan deserved to die for his crimes and said the execution would likely take place in December.
‘Whatever the controversy is about the method of the execution, I hope that people don’t forget that this is a guy who brutally murdered a lot of innocent people,’ he said.
Vice President JD Vance said he would not watch the livestream execution of convicted terrorist Nidal Hasan
Acting Secretary of the Army Hon. Adam Telle directed Tuesday the execution of Nidal Hasan by firing squad, after Trump approved the death sentence for his crimes.
The president has the sole authority to approve a death sentence for a military prisoner.
The 2009 mass shooting, which killed 13 and left 32 wounded, was the deadliest attack on a domestic military installation in US history. Hasan was shot and paralyzed from the waist down in the resulting gunfire and was sentenced to death in 2013.
During his trial, Hasan told jurors he had ‘switched sides’ in what he called America’s war with Islam.
He admitted beginning the rampage and said he wanted to stop American soldiers from being deployed to kill fellow Muslims.
Government lawyers also said Hasan did not want to go on an impending deployment to Afghanistan.
The Department of Defense called the attack an act of workplace violence, not terrorism.
Hasan was found guilty of all 42 counts by a court-martial jury on August 23, 2013, and sentenced to death days later.
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth revealed in an interview with Real America’s Voice on Thursday that Hasan would be publicly executed by firing squad.
‘We’ll make sure that people are able to watch it, that it’s public,’ Hegseth said.
‘People need to understand that there’s serious consequences for these types of things.’
Hegseth’s comments drew bipartisan criticism from elected officials and human rights organizations.
The UN human rights office said on Friday that broadcasting the killing ‘is tantamount to a public execution and would breach the absolute prohibition of torture.’
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth said that he will make public the scheduled firing squad execution of a former Army major
Democratic Senator Chris Murphy accused Hegseth of ‘mimicking’ terrorist organizations like ISIS by broadcasting the execution.
Republican Senator Thom Tillis declaried that public executions are ‘what oppressive dictatorships like Iran and Afghanistan do.’
‘It should not be happening in America,’ the North Carolina senator wrote on social media, describing the planned livestream as ‘beyond disgusting.’
Hasan is one of four inmates on death row in the US Army’s justice system.
The Justice Department announced earlier this year it would adopt firing squads as a permitted method of execution as the Trump administration moves to ramp up and expedite capital punishment cases.
