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IS PAM BONDI TARGETING FREE SPEECH?

The Highwire with Del Bigtree

The Highwire with Del Bigtree

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🗓️ 22 September 2025

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi recently made strong remarks about the government targeting individuals accused of hate speech. Hear why, under the First Amendment, even speech many consider offensive or hateful is still protected and why this distinction matters.

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0:00.0

Last week we were talking about the assassination of Charlie Kirk and although the investigation

0:04.9

is still ongoing, we do have the other conversation that's happening across the United

0:09.8

stage and that is the speech, the speech that's happening, whether it be from universities

0:15.7

or employees of companies and hospitals or just the general public.

0:20.0

And we have our Attorney general, Pam Bondi,

0:22.6

has come out recently in an interview to talk about some of that speech. Take a look.

0:27.3

There's free speech and then there's hate speech. And there is no place, especially now,

0:33.3

especially after what happened to Charlie in our society. Do you see more law enforcement going after these groups who are using hate speech and

0:43.0

putting cuffs on people so we show them that some action is better than no action?

0:47.6

We will absolutely target you, go after you if you are targeting anyone with hate speech, anything. And that's across the aisle.

0:59.1

I don't, I mean, I just had to say this pushes it to the edge for me. It's been something I've been

1:04.6

really thinking. I'm glad you're bringing this up. And just right there, I think that is the

1:08.6

line. I, first of all, all, never liked this term hate speech.

1:11.7

I've always thought we have plenty of laws to handle when someone gets killed or brutally beaten

1:17.3

by a group of bad meaning people.

1:20.6

I think our laws handle that.

1:23.1

Bringing hate speech in, which this happened back when I was like a teenager, I remember

1:26.4

the stories that really started pushing this hate speech agenda. It doesn't make sense to me. I think it is the slippery slope that we find ourselves in the middle in. It's where it can be used against either side on this. And frankly, I don't like the government getting involved over what, you know, what people say, no, you're about to get in this. I'm just saying right up front, unless you're going to convince me otherwise right now, Jeffrey.

1:49.2

There's a line.

1:50.0

People are allowed to say the ugliest things in the world here in America, and that's what

1:56.8

we fight for is your right to be as disgusting as you want to be now do you keep

2:02.9

your job that's another story but I don't like the government getting involved

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