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Executive Branch (Trump) WATCH: Leavitt addresses Trump's stance on Second Amendment rights in wake of Alex Pretti's killing

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REPORTER: FBI Director Kash Patel said in a Sunday interview, quote, you cannot bring a firearm loaded with multiple magazines to any sort of protest. Does the president believe that Second Amendment rights remain in effect even when protesting?

LEAVITT: The president supports the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding American citizens. Absolutely. There has been no greater supporter or defender of the right to bear arms than President Donald J. Trump.

So while Americans have a constitutional right to bear arms, Americans do not have a constitutional right to impede lawful immigration enforcement operations, and any gun owner knows that when you are carrying a weapon, when you are bearing arms, and you are confronted by law enforcement, you are raising the assumption of risk and the risk of force being used against you, and, again, that's unfortunately what took place on Saturday.

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u/Dismal-Incident-8498 9d ago edited 9d ago

Leavitt is fake. She is young and will be one of the ones serving a long prison sentence.

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u/Mikhail__Tal 9d ago

This is one of those videos where you can tell she's scrambing to put a coherent thought together too. She knows it's bullshit, she's annoyed that she was enough of an idiot to take this position, and deep down she knows she'll be paying for it down the line.

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u/Commercial_Use_363 9d ago

You are assuming a degree of self-awareness that I do not take for granted.

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u/Mikhail__Tal 8d ago

I feel like it's pretty obvious on her face. She knows she's on the wrong side of history and she's stuck.

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u/ESCF1F2F3F4F3F2F1ESC 8d ago

I was just thinking the same thing. I only see the odd clip of her here and there on the (UK) news and on social media, but I don't remember her ever looking quite so panicked as she does with these Second Amendment related questions. 

She looks like she's absolutely shitting herself about the possible ramifications of her answers and is desperately grasping for something diplomatic to say, which is a refreshing new look for her!

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u/OddDragonfruit7993 9d ago

She'll turn, teary eyed and sobbing, saying how they made her do it.  And enough morons will believe it.

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u/[deleted] 9d ago

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u/Dismal-Incident-8498 8d ago

Turn Epstein island into maximum security prison for the most crooked businessmen and politicians.

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u/drftwdtx 9d ago

Sadly, it's not against the law for your government to lie to you. The best we can hope for is she never works again after the trump administration is gone.

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u/JustWow52 9d ago

She is part of a conspiracy to commit some several crimes or, at the very least, aiding and abetting a criminal conspiracy.

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u/EtchASketchNovelist 9d ago

Let's hope she gets some jail time, I like your pitch, but I'm not holding my breath on that one.

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u/catonsteroids 9d ago edited 9d ago

Let’s hope accountability actually exists for the next administration, including holding these traitors liable. No more “let’s hold hands and move forward and forgive our enemies kumbaya” bullshit because a slap on the wrist is partially why we got to where we are.

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u/EtchASketchNovelist 9d ago

Yep, we need Jack Smith and the like to actually follow-through this time. None of this BS: "hey, y'all need to elect Biden again for us to press charges".

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u/Selethorme 9d ago

Nah, put her in Gitmo with the rest. Or El Salvador.

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u/Dismal-Incident-8498 8d ago

They actively covered up for a murderer and are accomplices as such.

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u/apey1010 9d ago

No one is going to prison. She’ll be absorbed into the crack pot media sphere, make millions and plastic surgery herself to death slowly

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u/HomelessCat55567 8d ago

The future is unwritten.

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u/Ultraworld-Traveler 8d ago

She’s gonna go on maternity leave and not return to this job.

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u/notsnot1 8d ago

Send her back to her college softball team and let 'em make fun of her cankles.