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Katie Hawkinsonin Washington, D.C.Sunday 23 November 2025 15:20 GMTComments
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President Donald Trump has once again called for Democrats who urged the military to defy illegal orders to be jailed in a series of late-night Truth Social posts.
Trump labelled the Democratic lawmakers “TRAITORS” who “SHOULD BE IN JAIL RIGHT NOW” after accusing them of telling the military to “DISOBEY MY ORDERS.” In another post, he accused these Democrats of committing a “CRIME OF SERIOUS PROPORTION.”
This comes after a group of Democratic lawmakers published a video telling members of the military and intelligence community to “refuse illegal orders” on Tuesday. Trump said it was “SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR” and called for the lawmakers to be jailed on Thursday. In another Truth Social post that day, he wrote: “SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR, punishable by DEATH.”
The Democratic lawmakers responded to Trump’s threats on Thursday, writing that what’s “most telling is that the President considers it punishable by death for us to restate the law.”
Meanwhile, Trump also renewed his call for federal intervention in Chicago on Saturday, citing “massive crime” in the area. The president accused Governor JB Pritzker and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson of “refusing Federal Government help for a situation that could be quickly remedied” in a Saturday afternoon social media post.
Trump’s statement followed at least two shootings that occurred within an hour in downtown Chicago, The Wall Street Journal reports.
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Democratic lawmaker who spoke out against illegal military orders addresses Trump's threats
Senator Elissa Slotkin, a Democrat who urged members of the military and intelligence community to “defy illegal orders” in a video with her colleagues this week, called President Donald Trump’s response a “tool of fear.”
On Truth Social this week, Trump labelled the video “SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR,” and at one point claimed that sedition is “punishable by DEATH.”
"He's trying to get us to shut up because he doesn't want to be talking about this," Slotkin said Sunday on ABC News’ This Week.
"In fact, I would argue that one of the things that he's been doing by repeating it and talking about it is trying to distract us from the big stories of last week, which were the [Jeffrey] Epstein files and then the economy,” she added.
Katie Hawkinson23 November 2025 15:20Mamdani addresses National Guard concerns
New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani has addressed concerns that President Donald Trump could send the National Guard to the city on NBC’s Meet the Press.
Mamdani said he told Trump that he trusts the NYPD to deliver on public safety. But Mamdani didn’t respond to a question about whether Trump ruled out sending in the National Guard during their meeting on Friday at the White House.
“I made it very clear what we wanted to do was to deliver public safety and affordability — the NYPD would be the ones to do so,” Mamdani said.
This comes after Trump told reporters Saturday that he has no immediate plans to send troops to New York City, but it remains a possibility.
“If they need it,” Trump said. “Right now, other places need it more, but if they need it — we had a very good meeting yesterday. We talked about that, but if they need it, I would do it.”
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