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Jail time for burning gay flag2/8/2024 If states would pass a “very powerful flag burning statute” with “strong punishment,” he promised to “back you 100%” and mused that the current members of the Supreme Court’s conservative majority “will accept that.” Last year, when two Republican senators introduced a constitutional amendment to ban flag burning, he tweeted his support: “A no brainer!”Ī couple of weeks ago, in a call with governors, he brought it up again, according to the Washington Post. In 2016, he suggested that anyone who burns an American flag should be imprisoned and lose their citizenship. It wasn’t the first time Trump has injected flag burning into the national political conversation. It was another cheap and easy chunk of red meat tossed to the anemic crowd on Saturday night: “We ought to come up with legislation that if you burn the American flag, you go to jail for one year!” he said, addressing Oklahoma’s two Republican senators, who basked in his attention. That would have required compassion or empathy.īut rail against an imaginary issue like flag burning? Sure, why not? President Trump did not offer a word of comfort for victims of police brutality, nor for those who have lost their lives in the COVID-19 pandemic, during his rally in Tulsa, Okla., last weekend.
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