Mel Gibson reveals what it would take for him to 'kill someone' at Trump's Mar-a-Lago

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During an impassioned speech at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort this week, Mel Gibson revealed what it would take for him to “kill someone.”

Gibson was speaking at an event celebrating the efforts of Gen. Michael Flynn and his sister Mary O’Neill to fight human trafficking at a gala for the conservative group America’s Future when he made the viral remarks.

Chaired by Flynn, America’s Future says it “empowers young people to be active, civil, and curious citizens who build freer communities that lead to fulfillment, dignity, and happiness for all.”

Gibson praised the Flynn siblings for “exposing all these wolves in sheep’s clothing that prey upon our young.”

“I’ve got nine kids. I don’t know, if one of them got stolen or trafficked or something, I’d have to kill someone,” Gibson said in video footage shared from the event at Trump’s Florida property. 

Elsewhere, Gibson took a parting shot at President Joe Biden, whose leadership he described as “four years of thinly veiled Marxism.”

“(President-elect Trump) has got a big job on his hand to turn this place around … I hope in the next four years we can get back some of that precious commodity that this country has. That commodity called freedom, all right,” Gibson said to a roomful of cheers. “We’ll see how much this administration can claw back from the philistines.”

In the leadup to last month’s U.S. election, Gibson threw his support behind Trump by giving a damning assessment of Kamala Harris’ tenure as vice-president.

As she ran to become America’s 47th commander-in-chief, Harris assembled a roster of celebrity endorsements, with notable names like Bruce Springsteen, Eminem, Julia Roberts, Jon Bon Jovi, George Clooney, Howard Stern and Spike Lee in her corner.

But when TMZ caught up with the 68-year-old Lethal Weapon star in Los Angeles in October, the trucker hat-wearing Gibson was blunt in his response when asked who he was voting for.

“I don’t think it’s going to surprise anyone who I vote for,” said Gibson, whose career was sidelined by a series of racist statements and accusations of domestic violence over a decade ago.

“I’m gonna guess Trump. Is that a bad guess?” the cameraman replied, as he trailed behind the Oscar winner.

“I think that’s a pretty good guess,” Gibson answered. “I know what it’ll be like if we let her in. And that ain’t good. Miserable track record. No policies to speak of. She’s got the IQ of a fence post.”

In a video posted to their site, America’s Future warns that human traffickers are involved in “organ harvesting.”

“They have also found a way to take the blood, and use the blood, to make themselves youthful,” Mary O’Neil says.

Last year, Gibson helped promote Sound of Freedom, a human trafficking thriller that starred Jim Caviezel, who has embraced QAnon tenets that promote the belief that global elites are behind a child sex trafficking ring that kidnaps children and harvests their blood and organs.

“The most disturbing problem in our world today is human trafficking,” Gibson said in a video plugging the film. “In particular, the trafficking of children. The first step in eradicating this crime is awareness.”

In addition to Gibson, other attendees at the gala included musician Kid Rock, journalist Tucker Carlson, former Trump adviser Roger Stone and British comedian Russell Brand, who joked, “My life’s changed quite a lot. A little while ago, I was a vegan living a simple life in Grays, Essex (U.K.). But now I’m eating steak at Mar-a-Lago. Funny how the world changes.”

mdaniell@postmedia.com