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Pam Bondi, Free Speech, Dueling Rhetoric and the Ongoing Trampling and Devaluation of the First Amendment by Segments of The Trump Administration and the Conservative Right!

5 min readSep 22, 2025

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The horrific and sadistic assassination of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk has unleashed all sorts of cascading emotions and has apparently resulted in Attorney General Pam Bondi mentally having a major, manic mental meltdown. Earlier this week, September 15, she appeared on the Katie Miller Podcast declaring Attorney General Pam Bondi, America’s highest-ranking law-enforcement official, stated in an interview posted to YouTube earlier this week that federal law enforcement will “go after” Americans for hate speech. “There’s free speech, and then there’s hate speech,” she said. In fact, there is no hate-speech exception to the First Amendment.

Visibly and publicly outraged and disturbed to certain reactions to public and “vulgar” (her term) expressions of contempt for Kirk’s legacy from varied people and media journalists, pundits, commentators etc.… that she would enact acts of revenge: “We will absolutely target you, go after you, if you are targeting anyone with hate speech. There’s free speech and then there’s hate speech. in an interview posted to YouTube yesterday that federal law enforcement will “go after” Americans for hate speech. “There’s…

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Elwood Watson, Ph.D.
Elwood Watson, Ph.D.

Written by Elwood Watson, Ph.D.

Historian, Syndicated Columnist, Public Speaker, Social-Cultural Critic. Professor of Black Studies and Gender Studies, at East Tennessee State University.

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