On Thursday morning (November 20), President Donald Trump demanded the arrest of six Democratic lawmakers in a publish on his Reality Social media platform, calling them “traitors” and suggesting that they be tried and put to demise.
“It’s known as SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR AT THE HIGHEST LEVEL,” he wrote, including: “Every one in all these traitors to our Nation ought to be ARRESTED AND PUT ON TRIAL. Their phrases can’t be allowed to face – We received’t have a Nation anymore!!! An instance MUST BE SET.” In one other publish, Trump raged, “SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR, punishable by DEATH!”
The posts had been in response to a video that includes six Democrats from Congress – Senators Elissa Slotkin (MI) and Mark Kelly (AZ), and Representatives Maggie Goodlander (NH), Chris Deluzio(PA), Jason Crow (CO), and Chrissy Houlihan (PA) – instantly addressing service members of their oaths in a video posted on X, previously Twitter. “Our legal guidelines are clear. You may refuse unlawful orders,” they stated, regarding the administration’s strikes on boats within the Caribbean.
White Home Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt would discipline a direct query about Trump’s Reality Social posts later that afternoon. When requested if every of the lawmakers (who’ve navy and intelligence backgrounds) ought to be killed, she replied, “No.”
Leavitt argued that the lawmakers’ video can be a risk to nationwide security. “Each single order given to the U.S. navy by this commander in chief, via the chain of command and the secretary of warfare, is lawful,” she acknowledged.
Home Majority Speaker Mike Johnson (LA), a Republican, acknowledged that the Democratic lawmakers’ video was “wildly inappropriate” and “harmful”. However in later feedback, he would say that they weren’t “punishable by demise,” and that Trump was “attempting to make some extent.” However a number of Democratic members of congress, together with different observers, swiftly expressed their outrage on the feedback on-line.
- Senator Tammy Duckworth
