EAIAC: seditious treason edition
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President Donald Trump on Thursday accused half a dozen Democratic lawmakers of sedition “punishable by DEATH” after the lawmakers — all veterans of the armed services and intelligence community — called on U.S. military members to uphold the Constitution and defy “illegal orders.”
The 90-second video was first posted early Tuesday from Sen. Elissa Slotkin’s X account. In it, the six lawmakers — Slotkin, Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly, and Reps. Jason Crow, Chris Deluzio, Maggie Goodlander and Chrissy Houlahan — speak directly to U.S. service members, whom Slotkin acknowledges are “under enormous stress and pressure right now.”
“The American people need you to stand up for our laws and our Constitution,” Slotkin wrote in the X post.
Trump on Thursday reposted messages from others about the video, amplifying it with his own words. It marked another flashpoint in the political rhetoric that at times has been thematic in his administrations, as well as among some in his MAGA base. Some Democrats accused him of acting like a king and trying to distract from the soon-to-be-released files about disgraced financier and sexual abuser Jeffrey Epstein.
Part of what’s going on here is Trump’s evident cognitive deterioration — more on this soon — and the related exacerbation of his malignant narcissism, and attendant loss of what little emotional control he previously possessed.
And military personnel do in fact have an obligation to refuse to carry out illegal orders: that is as a practical matter what it means to take an oath to the Constitution, rather than to the Supreme Leader.
I don’t think we’re going to get through the next three years and two months without a legal and constitutional crisis of the first order, comparable perhaps to the one this nation faced in 1861.
. . . more from Josh Marshall on this. Things could come to a head rather quickly.