‘Punishable by DEATH’: Trump threatens ‘traitor’ Democrats with execution for urging troops to defy orders

Donald Trump has threatened Democratic lawmakers with execution after they called for soldiers to refuse their orders.

‘Seditious behavior, punishable by death!’ the president wrote on Truth Social on Thursday.

‘This is really bad, and dangerous to our country. Their words cannot be allowed to stand.’ 

Senators Mark Kelly and Elissa Slotkin, as well as Representatives Jason Crow, Maggie Goodlander, Chris Deluzio and Chrissy Houlahan, all veterans, published a video this week urging troops to defy ‘illegal orders.’ 

The video shows the lawmakers, each veteran from different branches of service, ranging from the CIA, Air Force, Army and Navy, pleading with military members.

‘You must refuse illegal orders,’ the lawmakers said. ‘No one has to carry out orders that violate the law or our constitution.’

The video enraged Trump, the commander-in-chief of all the US’s military forces, who has spent his morning bashing the ‘traitors’ on social media.

Trump even reposted someone calling for the lawmakers to be executed. ‘Hang them George Washington Would!’ the Truth Social entry shared by the president said. 

The lawmakers never specified what ‘illegal orders’ the soldiers should refuse or what they should do if they receive unlawful commands. 

‘It’s called seditious behavior at the highest level,’ another one of Trump’s posts about the lawmakers reads. 

‘Each one of these traitors to our Country should be arrested and put on trial. Their words cannot be allowed to stand – We won’t have a country anymore!!! An example must be set.’

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth called the video evidence of ‘Stage 4 [Trump Derangement Syndrome].’

Though the Democrats have been defending their video.  

‘We are standing by our troops, our service members who are often put in very difficult positions and Donald Trump has put them in very difficult positions and has alluded to putting them in even more difficult positions in the months and years ahead,’ Crow, a Colorado Democrat and former Army Ranger, explained to Fox News on Wednesday. 

‘So we are reminding folks about what the uniform code of military justice says, what the Constitution says, what the law of war says,’ he added. 

Crow also cited Trump’s deployment of the National Guard around the country as a cause for concern among soldiers. 

The Democrat also pushed back on claims that the video was inspired by the military’s current buildup in the Caribbean. 

In recent months, the US has conducted at least 20 lethal strikes on alleged narco-terrorist boats bringing drugs illegally to the US. 

The videos of the strikes, which have killed at least 80 people, have regularly been reposted by Hegseth and Trump. 

Senator Kelly of Arizona, who was prominently featured in the video, pushed back on Trump advisor Stephen Miller’s claim that the Democrats were citing an insurrection. 

‘I got shot at serving our country in combat, and I was there when your boss sent a violent mob to attack the Capitol,’ the Navy veteran said. ‘I know the difference between defending our Constitution and an insurrection, even if you don’t.’