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Peter Welch: “Removing references to the Enola Gay from the Department of…”

Featuring: Peter Welch, Democratic | U.S. Senate, Vermont

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Welch Calls Out the Trump Administration’s Freedom of Speech Hypocrisy

Published | Video Starts at 04:35

And there's a whole list of words that cannot be used. And of course, one of the incredibly petty examples that shows how extreme this is and how wanton it is was Removing references to the Enola Gay from the Department of Defense websites because it included the word gay. This is a very important inflection point in our democracy. The First Amendment is being challenged by the executive who's unraveling the protections that have been absolute through thick and thin. (04:35–04:51)

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Asserts that references to the Enola Gay were removed from websites due to the word 'gay.'

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