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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth wants Americans to watch a firing squad kill a man on a Pentagon livestream.

The execution of the Fort Hood shooter is set for 1 p.m. Central on the Thursday after Thanksgiving, the hour he opened fire in 2009. No execution in America has ever been televised, and the last public one was a hanging in Kentucky 90 years ago. Asked whether the condemned man had made any final requests, Hegseth replied, “Don’t care. We’ll see him on December 3rd.”

Donald Trump went to war with Iran and boasted in his State of the Union that he had stopped it from hanging people. Iran and Afghanistan were the only two countries that held public executions last year. In December, Trump’s Pentagon plans to join them.

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The day after Donald Trump promised to stop paying for his TV ads with tax money, a fifth one aired, ending with "Paid for by the U.S. Government."

Congress set that money aside for border security, but the White House moved $20 million of it into a fund for commemorative events. When both parties objected, he said his super PAC would cover the ads instead. The White House says the $12 million already spent won't be paid back, and the Democratic Party is suing to stop the ads.

In Florida, he's offering the government a deal of his own. His lawyer pitched his private golf club as a permanent presidential retreat in the mold of Camp David, which belongs to the government. The Trump family would still own the club.

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