“A One America News Network personality denies he suggested that ‘traitors’ who ‘stole’ the 2020 election should be executed while he pushed the conspiracy theory that widespread fraud kept former President Donald Trump from a second term in the White House. Clips on social media that emerged Wednesday evening showed Pearson Sharp in a segment in which he said, ‘In the past, America had a very good solution for dealing with such traitors’ who were ‘involved in these efforts to undermine the election.’ And that’s ‘execution.’ The headlines that ensued in publications such as the Daily Beast and the Independent said he was calling for, or at least suggesting, that people be executed on the far-flung premise the November contest was rigged, as Trump has claimed.”

“But the television personality told the Washington Examiner on Thursday that such characterizations of his comments were inaccurate. ‘Neither I or OAN are suggesting anyone should be executed,’ he said. ‘I’m simply reporting that conspiring against the government to overthrow an election, with the help of a foreign government, would be treason. If that is investigated, and if that is proven, then US laws maintain that execution is a legal punishment for those crimes,’ he added in a written message. Sharp also said legal penalties are up to ‘the appropriate law enforcement agencies to determine,’ and he said the network ‘is simply pointing out that if election fraud is proven, then it could very well constitute treason. And according to our laws, treason is punishable by death. If it is found that government officials coordinated with foreign countries to overthrow the election, then that would be the very definition of treason. Which, according to our nation’s laws, could result in execution'” – Washington Examiner.