President Donald Trump late Saturday ordered that six Democrats involved in a video calling on military officers to refuse illegal commands be jailed.
This comes after Trump accused the Democrat lawmakers on Friday of seditious behaviour, punishable by death.
Recall that Democrats slammed Trump’s comments as “absolutely vile threats” against the six senators and representatives, all of whom have served in the military or the intelligence community.
Writing on his Truth Social account on Saturday night, Trump said: “THE TRAITORS THAT TOLD THE MILITARY TO DISOBEY MY ORDERS SHOULD BE IN JAIL RIGHT NOW, NOT ROAMING THE FAKE NEWS NETWORKS TRYING TO EXPLAIN THAT WHAT THEY SAID WAS OK.”
According to him, the Democrats’ message was “SEDITION AT THE HIGHEST LEVEL” and that “THERE CAN BE NO OTHER INTERPRETATION OF WHAT THEY SAID.”
The video, which was posted on social media on Friday, allegedly asked the military to refuse illegal orders and featured Arizona’s Mark Kelly, Michigan’s Elissa Slotkin, along with Jason Crow of Colorado, Chris Deluzio and Chrissy Houlahan of Pennsylvania, and Maggie Hassan of New Hampshire.
Meanwhile, the Democrats did not specify which orders they were referring to, but Trump has ordered the National Guard into multiple US cities, in many cases against the wishes of local officials, in a bid to bring alleged rampant unrest under control.
The president has also ordered strikes on a series of alleged drug-smuggling vessels in the Caribbean Sea and eastern Pacific Ocean, which have left more than 80 people dead and which experts say are illegal.
He has alluded to the death penalty on previous occasions.
It will be recalled that in 2023, former US military officer Mark Milley told a journalist he had secretly called his Chinese counterpart after the January 6, 2021 riots at the US Capitol to reassure Beijing that the United States remained stable and had no intention to attack China.
