"Although they did not specify which orders might be illegal, Trump has come under fire for sending the US military into American cities for poorly defined reasons, including amid peaceful protests against a massive and aggressive deportation campaign. Seditious behavior, punishable by death! Trump responded in a post on Truth Social. Each one of these traitors to our Country should be arrested and put on trial. He also reposted a message from another user reading: Hang them George Washington would!"
"He uses sedition and treason very broadly and inappropriately, said David Frakt, a retired air force officer and attorney in the judge advocate general (JAG) corps, the military justice branch. The irony is that if anyone committed sedition or treason, it was the people that he urged to overthrow the government on January 6 [2021] - and you know, he pardoned all of those people and calls them patriots and martyrs and all the rest."
Veterans condemned politicization of the military after Donald Trump accused Democratic lawmakers of sedition and invoked death as punishment. The exchange followed a video by lawmakers with military or national security backgrounds urging US service members to refuse unlawful orders. Named representatives included Maggie Goodlander, Jason Crow, Chris DeLuzio and Chrissy Houlahan, and senators Mark Kelly and Elissa Slotkin. The lawmakers said the administration was pitting uniformed military and intelligence professionals against American citizens. Trump posted calls to arrest and try the lawmakers and reposted a message advocating hanging, prompting strong rebukes from the military legal community.
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