"President Donald Trump reiterated in a radio interview Friday that he believes a video statement put out by Democrat lawmakers with military and intelligence backgrounds — which called on service members to “resist” the Trump Administration over undefined
The controversy erupted earlier this week when Senators Mark Kelly (D-AZ), Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) and a number of House Democrats, all of whom have backgrounds in the military or intelligence community, released a video in which they urged military personnel to disobey “illegal” orders.
A number of senior White House officials, including Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller and President Trump himself, have described the video as “seditious” and called for investigations.
“Well, if you look at sedition, if you look at, uh, you know, that type of, it’s a form of a very strong form of being a traitor. It’s a terrible thing to say. I must tell you, I heard it and I thought it was some kind of a comedy situation. I thought that would, you know, it was some kind of a skit and cause I couldn’t believe that they’d say it,” Trump said.
Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche has described the video as “abhorrent” and likened it to “a propaganda video by one of our enemies trying to recruit the military to become spies.”
“What is the reason that they all went on a video and encouraged young men and women to defy court orders without even giving a hint of what’s illegal, without even giving any suggestion of what law or what order they’re being asked to violate. You cannot do that in this country, especially if you’re a leader,” he told Fox News on Thursday before suggesting that the Justice Department is probing the matter."
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