White House Denies Trump’s Call to Execute Democratic Lawmakers After Explosive Sedition Remarks

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The White House pushed back after US President Donald Trump accused six Democratic lawmakers of 'seditious behaviour punishable by death' over their PSA urging troops to refuse illegal orders. Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt denied Trump wanted executions, as the remarks triggered intense political outrage and national security concerns across Washington.  #Trump #DemocraticLawmakers #SeditionRemarks #WhiteHouse #KarolineLeavitt #Congress #PoliticalControversy #USPolitics #World   🔊 LIKE ➡ SHARE ➡ SUBSCRIBE  Download the Asianet News App now!  Available on Android & iOS  👉 Android:  https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vserv.asianet&hl=en_IN   👉 iOS:  https://apps.apple.com/in/app/asianet-news-official/id1093450032   For More Updates:  Follow us on our What's app Channel: https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029Va5Bq3yKwqSLSQTxam0r  English: https://newsable.asianetnews.com/  Hindi: https://hindi.asianetnews.com/  Malayalam: https://www.asianetnews.com/  Kannada: https://kannada.asianetnews.com/  Tamil: https://tamil.asianetnews.com/  Telugu: https://telugu.asianetnews.com/  Bengali: https://bangla.asianetnews.com/  Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AsianetNewsa...  Follow us on Twitter:  https://twitter.com/AsianetNewsEN  Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ann.newsable/  ➡ If you like our video, give us a thumbs up and subscribe to our channel to get the daily dosage of news, entertainment, sports and more.

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00:00This morning, President Trump accused six Democratic lawmakers of seditious behavior punishable by death.

00:07Just to be clear, does the President want to execute members of Congress?

00:11No. Let's be clear about what the President is responding to,

00:16because many in this room want to talk about the President's response,

00:19but not what brought the President to responding in this way.

00:23You have sitting members of the United States Congress who conspired together to orchestrate a video

00:32message to members of the United States military, to active duty service members,

00:37to members of the national security apparatus, encouraging them to defy the President's lawful orders.

00:45The sanctity of our military rests on the chain of command, and if that chain of command is broken,

00:51it can lead to people getting killed, it can lead to chaos,

00:55and that's what these members of Congress, who swore an oath to abide by the Constitution,

01:01are essentially encouraging.

01:02We have 1.3 active duty service members in this country,

01:06and if they hear this radical message from sitting members of Congress,

01:11that could inspire chaos, and it could incite violence, and it certainly could disrupt the chain of command.

01:17These three members of Congress, I will also add, knew exactly what they were doing.

01:20You look at Alyssa Slotkin, she's a former member of the CIA.

01:24Mark Kelly was a captain in the U.S. Navy.

01:27Maggie Goodlender was a naval officer, and notably, she is also the wife of Joe Biden's national security former advisor, Jake Sullivan.

01:36And so these members knew what they were doing.

01:38They were leading into their credentials as former members of our military, as veterans,

01:43as former members of the national security apparatus,

01:46to signal to people serving under this commander-in-chief, Donald Trump,

01:50that you can defy him, and you can betray your oath of office.

01:54That is a very, very dangerous message, and it perhaps is punishable by law.

02:00I'm not a lawyer.

02:01I'll leave that to the Department of Justice and the Department of War to decide.

02:04But the president has frequently, but Caroline, can I just follow up?

02:07The president, and the vice president, for that matter,

02:09have accused the other side of encouraging political violence.

02:13Isn't that exactly what the president is doing when he says that members of Congress should be killed?

02:18Why aren't you talking about what these members of Congress are doing to encourage and incite violence?

02:23They are literally saying to 1.3 million active-duty service members

02:27not to defy the chain of command, not to follow lawful orders.

02:33Actually, they said that you can refuse an illegal order, which is illegal to vote military enough.

02:36But they're suggesting, Nancy, that the president has given illegal orders, which he has not.

02:43Every single order that is given to this United States military by this commander-in-chief

02:47and through this chain of command, through the secretary of war, is lawful.

02:51And the courts have proven that.

02:53This administration has an unparalleled record at the Supreme Court

02:57because we are following the laws.

02:59We don't defy court orders.

03:01We do things by the books.

03:03And to suggest and encourage that active-duty service members defy the chain of command

03:08is a very dangerous thing for sitting members of Congress to do.

03:12And they should be held accountable.

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