On Friday, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. made a show of selectively exiting the presidential race and throwing his support behind Donald Trump, hailing the former president as a champion of free speech. Less than a week later, Trump is already promising to crush First Amendment protections if elected in November.
On Monday, Trump complained about pushback to a proposal to sentence people to a year in jail for burning the American flag.
“I wanna get a law passed […] You burn an American flag, you go to jail for one year. Gotta do it — you gotta do it,” Trump said.
“They say, ‘Sir, that’s unconstitutional.’ We’ll make it constitutional.”