'C’mon man': Fox News analyst blasts Trump’s latest rant

27 August

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Staten Island Live News reports Fox News chief political analyst Brit Hume slamming President Donald Trump over his Monday executive order criminalizing people for burning the American flag.

“George HW Bush ran against flag burning in 1988 and spent a whole week campaigning on the issue. But he called for a constitutional amendment to ban the practice, Hume posted on X. “He didn’t pretend he could ban it by an executive order that flies in the face of constitutional speech protections. C’mon man.”

Trump’s order claims there is room to prosecute flag burning if it “is likely to incite imminent lawless action” or amounts to “fighting words.”

“You burn a flag, you get one year in jail. You don’t get 10 years, you don’t get one month,” Trump said. “You get one year in jail, and it goes on your record, and you will see flag burning stopping immediately.”

SI Live reports the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 In 1989 that the First Amendment protects flag burning as legitimate political expression. Justice Antonin Scalia, a conservative icon who Trump has repeatedly praised, voted along with the majority to protect that right.

Trump described the 1989 court behind the ruling as a “very sad court.”

Vice President JD Vance posted on X that Scalia “was a great Supreme Court Justice and a genuinely kind and decent person,” but argued that the “President's EO is consistent" with Texas v. Johnson while also arguing that “Texas v. Johnson was wrong and William Rehnquist was right.”

Social media personality Ed Krassenstein responded to Vance, posting on X: “The dude who called Trump ‘America’s Hitler’ before becoming his vice president is now supporting the infringement of our first amendment rights.” Krassenstein added that he was “going to burn a flag just for you JD.”

Read the Staten Island report at this link.

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