'He says it four times': Experts point out proof Trump 'doesn’t care about free speech'

Political experts are criticizing Donald Trump after the ex-president doubled down on a proposal he made last week, saying that people who burn the American flag should be jailed.

MSNBC's Jordan Rubin noted in an article last week:

The legal problem with that proposal is that it violates the First Amendment. The Supreme Court addressed the issue in the 1989 case Texas v. Johnson, when conservative icon Antonin Scalia joined the high court majority in deciding that a conviction for burning the flag was unconstitutional.

Trump repeated the proposal during his speech at the National Guard convention in Detroit Monday.

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"You burn an American flag, you go to jail for one year," the ex-president said. "Gotta do it. We gotta do it. They say, 'sir, that's unconstitution.' We'll make it constitution."

David J. Bier, director of immigrant studies at the Cato Institute, commented: "He didn’t say 'unconstitutionAL' or 'constitutionAL'; he says 'unconstitution' and 'constitution'. He says it four times. How did our country survive this person having the most powerful position in the history of the planet?"

The Bulwark's Tim Miller wrote: "Yesterday @RobertKennedyJr said he was endorsing Trump because the Democrats support censorship. Today Trump wants to change the first amendment so that he can jail people for flag burning."

The New York Times' Jane Coaston replied: "Censorship *of him.* Censorship of other people is fine."

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Sarah Longwell, publisher of The Bulwark, added: "Periodic reminder that Trump doesn’t care at all about free speech."

Lawyer Andrew Fleishman noted: "First Amendment stuff is the best part of the current Supreme Court and so, thankfully, I don't think this will happen."

Lawyer Bradley P. Moss added: "'Well make it constitutional' @RichLowry (somewhere) - 'See, that’s the type of character and belief in the rule of law we need.'"

Rich Lowry is editor of the conservative National Review.

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