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The Trump administration plans a public killing

Pete Hegseth’s “barbaric” plan for a livestreamed execution, briefly explained.

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Welcome to The Logoff: The Trump administration is planning a public killing.

What’s happening? On Thursday, the Pentagon announced that it would execute Nidal Hasan, a former Army major sentenced to death for a 2009 mass shooting on a military base, publicly and on livestream.

The execution, if it happens, would be unprecedented: The last widely reported........

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