President Donald Trump promised to protect free speech as president. His record is very mixed on that count. Still, Trump’s attorney general, Pam Bondi, apparently doesn’t even understand basic facts about the First Amendment. Indeed, Bondi signaled her intent to violate it.
During a podcast interview this week, Bondi spoke about the aftermath of the horrific assassination of MAGA star influencer Charlie Kirk. She lamented the disturbing fact that some left-wing voices are celebrating this brazen act of political terrorism. But Bondi then bizarrely claimed that “There’s free speech and then there’s hate speech, and there is no place, especially now, especially after what happened to Charlie, in our society” for hate speech. She reiterated that, pledging that the federal government “will absolutely target you, go after you, if you are targeting anyone with hate speech.”
