Trump says the Pentagon will no longer livestream execution of Fort Hood shooter

The Trump administration will not move forward with a public execution of the former U.S. Army psychiatrist convicted of killing 13 people and injuring 32 others. Journalist James Gooderson is in Washington tracking developments, and James Trump released a long post which was quick to lay blame for the shooting on a former administration. What more can you tell us about his online statement? Yes, indeed. The president has now confirmed that that execution will not be live-streamed. Major Nidal Hassan killed 13 people, wounded 32 others at Fort Hood in Texas in 2009. The president has reversed this decision in part because of huge criticism about the idea from a variety of different sources. But in this long post on Truth Social, he blamed the Obama administration's FBI for missing warning signs about Nidal Hassan. The emails he refers to in his long post are in regards to Hassan exchanging messages with a radical cleric called Anwar al-Khlaqi. And that began during the Bush administration. But then they were intercepted in 2009 when Obama was president. And that's where President Trump has turned his eye towards. He said that, you know, at that point, investigators decided that he wasn't a threat. It is worth noting an independent review that was put in place after this effectively called this a serious failure, blaming workload and policy rather than political interference and found now a deliberate misconduct. And it is worth noting as well that the FBI director at the time, Mr. Mueller, was both the FBI director under President Bush and President Obama. So, you know, they are President Trump making a critical point there to one of his predecessors. But overall, this decision is a backdown from the Trump administration. What were some reasons Trump gave for pulling the online execution? He said in a post on Truth Social that he thinks the streaming of the execution for all to see might have been a strong deterrent for the world to witness how America deals with terrorists and scum in capitals like Hassan. But many very good and well-meaning people would rather not watch him die through streaming or through any other visual device 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 effectively the row back on this is because senators from both sides of the house have effectively said that this is a disgusting idea and they have accused the U.S. government of mimicking ISIS executions the vice president outwardly came out against it saying he wouldn't be watching it and wasn't sure it was going to happen veterans both of the shooting and indeed more broadly across the armed forces have said that it is a bad idea there's been a huge amount of pushback on it and the president now clearly has made a decision that it will not be live streamed