‘They Should Get the Death Penalty’: The Far Right’s History of Calling for the Execution of Political Opponents

During Tim Pool’s podcast, Laura Loomer said opponents of Donald Trump ‘should get the death penalty,’ which is part of long history of the far right calling for the execution of political opponents.

Laura Loomer, far right conspiracy theorist, recently said that the political opponents of Donald Trump ‘should get the death penalty,’ which is part of long history of the far right calling for the execution of political opponents.

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During his recent podcast, Tim Pool said that if Donald Trump is elected he should imprison his political opponents: “should there be list of Democrats who need to go to jail? One hundred percent.” Laura Loomer responded that “not just jail, they should get the death penalty,” and seconds later the video feed abruptly stop broadcasting. After the interview, Loomer would claim that she was “talking about the people who staged the coup against Donald Trump,” and that “people who commit TREASON should get the legal punishment for TREASON, which is the DEATH PENALTY.” The video of the podcast “longer appears on YouTube, and was instead replaced with the disclaimer that it had been ‘removed by the uploader.’”

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