Posted on 11/26/2025 10:09:26 AM PST by DallasBiff
After six congressional Democrats released a video advising members of the U.S. military and national security community to “refuse illegal orders,” President Donald Trump said the lawmakers should be tried in court for “SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR, punishable by DEATH!” But legal experts told us this was not sedition and that the legislators were restating the law that only lawful orders must be followed.
“Sedition is trying to overthrow the government with force or violence,” Eric R. Carpenter, a professor of law at Florida International University College of Law, said in an email to us. “In the video, the elected officials are just telling service members to follow the law. They are not telling service members to overthrow the government.”
The White House later said that Trump didn’t mean the Democrats should face the death penalty, but the press secretary argued that the video encouraged troops to defy the president.
Here, we cover what the lawmakers said, how Trump responded, and what legal experts have said about the video and the president’s claims.
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“Experts” AKA rat hacks
Of course, the Democrats found unbiased ‘experts’ to support their position. Kinda like the neutral ‘fact checkers’ who always claim Orange Man Bad.
Bingo!
Are any of these so called “experts” military JAG officers?
Experts?
Maybe they can run out and get 51 Signatures to agree.
Exactly! It was done for PR to demonstrate how rabidly anti-Trump the six are to the crazies that are now the majority in Ratland. Rocketboy (Kelly) definitely had presidential ambitions its all to establish his “bona fides!’ as a possible Tier 1 Prez candidate. The others are angling for Tier 2 VP, the exception to some extent is Slotkin. Her ego is such she thinks she’s Tier 1 material certainly Tier 2. If they can provoke an over reaction by the administration. They will wrap themselves in the robes of martyrdom.
Fact check: Article 94 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ).
A person subject to the UCMJ is guilty of sedition if they:
With intent to cause the overthrow or destruction of lawful civil authority, create, in concert with any other person, revolt, violence, or other disturbance against that authority.
Fail to do their utmost to prevent and suppress a sedition or mutiny being committed in their presence.
Don’t have to be from JAG.
Training is what it is. If they restated it, that is not sedition.
Worse, I suspect that as members of Congress, they can get their legal teams govt funded. So can’t even attack them with legal fees.
Who are the “experts?” Adam Schiff? Nanzi Pelousy? Lieawatha? Lynn Cheney? George W. Bush? Need I go on?
....and fomenting rebellion...
Ok that’s fine, so the next time ANY Democrat has power, we will do the same thing and tell members of the military to NOT listen to ANYTHING that the President says, sound good or nah
So put them under oath.
“Has the President issued an illegal order to the military? And if so, what specific order has he issued that is illegal?”
“If the President has not issued any illegal order, then can you clarify your statement in the video and express to the troops that, given no illegal orders have been issued, that they should follow all orders as directed?”
Put them on the stand and stick them into a perjury trap.
Same “experts” that denied illegal immigrants were in the country, supported human-caused “climate change”, and actually think that men can have babies?
“No Kings!”
“Trump is a fascist dictator!”
“Killing narco-terrorists without Congress’ sign off is illegal!”
“ICE are gestapo...”
“Don’t follow illegal orders.”
Sure... You cannot hate the Left enough because they sure as shit hate you.
They did not have the backbone to kill me like that deranged, completely mentally ill, violence-influenced by Democrats Tyler Robinson did motivating him to kill Charlie Kirk. If only I could attain to a position of authority to bring just retribution to them for what they have done to thousands of people like me.
One day (or series of days), this nation is going to fall to China. We've turned our backs on God and He will not be mocked. If these radicals are not crushed now (right now), God will give us into the hands of the Chinese (aided by Mexico). Almost all Americans have absolutely no clue how horrible that would be. No idea at all.
I don't believe anything the LAAP-dog media says the "experts" tell us.
I'm not falling for the "Experts say" hoax.
-PJ
Taken as just itself, the video is nothing.
Taken with EVERYTHING else they’ve said and done about conservatives, and Trump in general, it’s as seditious and treasonous as it gets...
Nazi. Fascist. Gestapo. Extra-Constitutional killings. Felon. No Kings.
It’s clever, I’ll give them that. Considering some of them are CIA with “Games and theory” experience... this is not a surprise.
“In the video, the elected officials are just telling service members to follow the law. They are not telling service members to overthrow the government.”
That statement is a deception.
They were telling service members to defy Trump’s orders which violates the military code, and that one pertains to Kelly and that is the grounds to court martial his sorry ass. That part of the code says nothing about overthrowing the government.
Also, why did not Kelly stand up for the thousands of servicemen kicked out for not taking the jab based on their understanding it was an unlawful order?
“Training is what it is. If they restated it, that is not sedition.”
Then why is what they [Kelly] did specified in the military code as grounds for action?
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