President Donald Trump on Thursday referred to as for the arrest of Democratic lawmakers who urged service members and intelligence officers to disobey illegal orders that could be issued by the administration, calling it “SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR, punishable by DEATH!”
“It’s called SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR AT THE HIGHEST LEVEL. Each one of these traitors to our Country should be ARRESTED AND PUT ON TRIAL,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform.
He was referring to half a dozen members of Congress who beforehand served within the military or intelligence neighborhood who posted a video on X earlier this week urging the military and intelligence neighborhood to “refuse illegal orders.”
“Their words cannot be allowed to stand – We won’t have a Country anymore!!! An example MUST BE SET,” Trump wrote, happening to add in a subsequent Truth Social put up: “LOCK THEM UP???”
He added “punishable by DEATH!” in one more put up later Thursday morning, after reposting one other person’s put up that learn: “HANG THEM GEORGE WASHINGTON WOULD !!”
NCS has reached out to the White House and to the lawmakers who appeared within the video.
In the video, the lawmakers stated, “No one has to carry out orders that violate the law, or our Constitution,” including, “Know that we have your back. … Don’t give up the ship.” The lawmakers don’t specify which orders service members have acquired, or may obtain, that might be illegal.
Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche stated Wednesday that the Justice Department will likely be taking a “very close look” at these lawmakers’ actions, calling it a “disgusting and inappropriate display of supposed leadership from the Democrat Party.”