"Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough blasted politically stupid Republicans who he said were sucking up to President Donald Trump's revenge campaign against the six Democratic lawmakers who took part in a video warning military service members against obeying illegal orders. The remarks came after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced Monday that his department would be pursuing an investigation into Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ), who took part in the video, after Trump raged the clip amounted to SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR, punishable by DEATH!"
"On MS NOW's Morning Joe Tuesday, Scarborough fumed against the president and administration for remarks and actions against the Democrats: Let's be very clear. [Trump] called military heroes, he's called former members of the CIA, he's called United States senators traitors and said they should be hanged. He called Marjorie Taylor Greene a traitor, and she told people that all the death threats on her and her family had really, I think, probably moved her to make the decision that she made [to step down]."
"Rounding on the administration, he warned they were making Democratic military veterans the face of the rival party: I would just say just politically that this is so stupid. You are now making Mark Kelly, astronaut, the face of the Democratic Party: a Navy pilot, a decorated Navy pilot, an astronaut you are making him the face of the party."
Republicans were criticized for aligning with President Donald Trump's push to punish six Democratic lawmakers who appeared in a video advising service members not to follow illegal orders. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced that the Pentagon would pursue an investigation into Sen. Mark Kelly and said he received serious allegations of misconduct, considering whether to recall Kelly to active duty for court-martial. Trump labeled the video seditious and suggested it was punishable by death. Critics warned that elevating decorated veterans like Kelly as the public face of the Democratic Party is politically shortsighted and may provoke backlash.
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