Trump says he’ll decide whether to livestream the execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan - BERITAJA

President Donald Trump connected Saturday said he hasn’t yet made a last determination connected whether to livestream the execution of erstwhile Army Maj. Nidal Hasan, who successful 2009 killed 13 group astatine Fort Hood successful Texas.

“There are 2 thoughts: don’t show it and show it. Cause you know, by showing it, possibly different group won’t beryllium doing what he did. So I’ll make a determination ultimately. I cognize what the subject would for illustration to do, but I’ll make a decision,” the president told reporters astatine the White House.

He besides said about Hasan’s crime, saying, “He’s a vicious slayer — killed 13 group successful acold blood, wounded complete 20, immoderate of those group will ne'er person their lives backmost successful a existent sense.”

Trump’s comments came a time aft he told reporters that he “absolutely” approved the livestream scheme announced earlier successful the week, which has drawn skepticism and disapproval from members of his ain party.

Military officials said Monday that Hasan, who was sentenced to decease successful 2013, would beryllium executed by firing squad successful December. On Thursday, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said that the execution would beryllium livestreamed, raising concerns that Hasan could beryllium viewed arsenic a martyr by others seeking to perpetrate wide violence.

But Vice President JD Vance said Friday that he was not sure the national authorities would livestream the execution, adding that if it did he would not watch the event.

That aforesaid time Several Republican lawmakers expressed concern about the conception of a publically broadcasting the killing.

Rep. Austin Scott, R-Ga., wrote successful a station connected X, “I perfectly support the condemnation of death, but live-streaming executions is what jihadists do. America is amended than that.”

Rep. Rob Bresnahan, R-Penn., successful a abstracted station connected X, said, “An execution shouldn’t beryllium a live-streamed spectacle. The attraction should beryllium connected justness for the victims and their families, not turning an execution into entertainment. Their symptom deserves respect, not a nationalist show.”

Rep. Tom Barrett, R-Mich., wrote, “Secretary Hegseth should earnestly reconsider this decision,” successful a station connected X.

Earlier Saturday connected Truth Social, Trump reposted a Dallas News article successful which Robert Jeffress, a salient Trump state and the elder pastor of First Baptist Dallas, said that he supports the scheme for a nationalist killing.