Trump again slams Democrats who urged US troops to refuse illegal orders

Donald Trump, the president of the United States, has criticized Democratic lawmakers who called on military personnel to abide by illegal orders and called them “traitors.”

Trump made the suggestion late on Saturday that Democrats who earlier this week sent video messages to service members should be imprisoned.

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In a social media post, he wrote that “THE TRAITORS THAT TOLD THE MILITARY TO DISOBEY MY ORDERS SHOULD BE IN JAIL RIGHT NOW, NOT READ THE FAKE NEWS NETWORKS TRY TO DISCLAIMER WHAT THEY SAID WAS OK.”

“IT WAS NOT, AND NEVER WILL BE!” SEDITION IS A MAJOR CRIME, AND IT WAS AT THE HIGHEST LEVEL. There is no other explanation for what they said.

The most recent comment was made after Trump’s latest video, which he appeared to call for the Democrats’ death penalty, caused a stir on Thursday.

“Seditious behavior that is passible to death”! Trump authored .

Senator Elissa Slotkin, a former CIA agent, first posted the 90-second video on Tuesday. Numerous Democratic legislators who served in the military and intelligence organizations were present.

The lawmakers call on service members to “stand up for our laws” and claim that the Trump administration “is pitting our uniformed military against American citizens” in the video.

“Our laws are simple. They assert that “you can reject unlawful orders.”

The Democratic lawmakers did not specify what to refuse in the event of an unlawful order from the military. However, Trump’s plan to send federal forces to a number of Democratic-controlled US cities coincided with their message.

Democrats criticized Trump for calling for the death penalty, with some calling for the president’s use of it.

One of the Democrats who appeared in the video, Chrissy Houlahan, told CNN on Thursday, “There is no other way to explain it than to say that vehemently the president has put our lives in danger.”

He literally translated as “he directly said that we were seditious and traitors” and literally translated as “he literally said that we should be hanged. There is no other way to interpret that besides as a call for our deaths, so to speak.

Following the assassination of right-wing commentator Charlie Kirk in September and Melissa Hortman’s June murder, the US is still reeling from political violence.

Trump appeared unafraid of criticism despite the outcry over his earlier admissions to the death penalty.

He wrote on Saturday, “Many Great Legal Scholars AGREE THAT THE DEMOCRAT TRAITORS THAT TOLD THE MILITARY TO DISOBEY MY ORDERS, AS PRESIDENT, HAVE COMMITTED A CRIME OF SERIOUS PROPORTION.”

The US military’s commander is the president, and the law mandates that officers follow their superiors’ orders.

However, some legal scholars have pointed out that all active duty officers are subject to the Uniform Code of Military Justice, which only lists penalties for those who disobey “lawful orders” and that service members are required to swear an oath to the Constitution.

Additionally, soldiers who obstruct orders without permission are not protected by the laws of war.