"She said service members have a legal obligation under the Uniform Code of Military Justice to obey lawful orders and that orders are presumed to be lawful. The military would descend into anarchy without that presumption, Leavitt told Martha MacCallum. You can't have a soldier out on the battlefield or conducting a classified order questioning whether that order is lawful or whether they should follow through, Leavitt said. There must be a chain of command in our military."
"You can refuse illegal orders. You must refuse illegal orders, the lawmakers said, as they took turns reading lines from the same statement. The other Democrats in the video were Rep. Chris Deluzio (D-PA), Rep. Maggie Goodlander (D-NH), Rep. Jason Crow (D-CO), Rep. Chrissy Houlahan (D-PA), and Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ). Those lawmakers served in the Navy, Army, Air Force, or Central Intelligence Agency."
"President Trump, two days later, branded it SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR that should be punishable by DEATH. The president vented his anger again on Saturday night, saying the Dems SHOULD BE IN JAIL. President Trump's Department of Defense now known as the Department of War announced on Monday that it was investigating Sen. Kelly after his appearance in the video."
Karoline Leavitt denounced six Democratic lawmakers for urging service members to refuse illegal orders, calling them deranged and saying they sought to undermine President Donald Trump as commander-in-chief. Leavitt asserted that service members have a legal obligation under the Uniform Code of Military Justice to obey lawful orders and that orders are presumed lawful to prevent military anarchy and preserve the chain of command. Six Democrats, including Sen. Elissa Slotkin and Sen. Mark Kelly, released a video saying service members must refuse illegal orders. President Trump called their actions seditious and advocated severe punishment while the Defense Department opened an investigation into Sen. Kelly.
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