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Jilly_in_VA

(13,583 posts)
Fri Nov 21, 2025, 07:53 PM Friday

Senator whose wife was shot fears for safety after Trump sedition accusation

Senator Mark Kelly – whose wife, Gabrielle Giffords, narrowly survived an attempted assassination while she was in Congress in 2011 – says he is worried about “increased threats” to his family’s safety after Donald Trump accused him and other Democratic lawmakers of “SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR, punishable by DEATH”.

“This kind of language is dangerous, and it’s wrong,” Kelly said on Friday on MS NOW’s Morning Joe, with political violence one of the top topics in the US’s public discourse. He continued: “I’m not going to get into my specific security arrangements, but it would be irresponsible for me not to consider that [Trump’s] words result in increased threats to myself, even to my staff, to my family.

“It would be a rather irresponsible thing for us not to consider this seriously.”

The Arizona senator’s remarks came after he appeared in a video on Tuesday alongside five other federal Democratic lawmakers who have previously served in the military or in intelligence roles – and who all told active US service members that they should refuse illegal orders.

“Our laws are clear,” the senators and US House members in question say in the video. “You can refuse illegal orders. You must refuse illegal orders. No one has to carry out orders that violate the law or our constitution.”

Trump reacted furiously to the video, writing on his Truth Social platform that Kelly and the others had engaged in “SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR, punishable by DEATH”. The president also reposted another Truth Social user who wrote, in part, “HANG THEM”.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/21/mark-kelly-gabby-giffords-threats-safety-trump

But it's Stephen Miller and ICE Barbie and their ilk who are so "frightened for their safety" that they're taking up space in military base housing

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Senator whose wife was shot fears for safety after Trump sedition accusation (Original Post) Jilly_in_VA Friday OP
The Trump Crime Syndicate has top of the line taxpayer funded security. Irish_Dem Friday #1
So... lonely bird Friday #2

Irish_Dem

(78,138 posts)
1. The Trump Crime Syndicate has top of the line taxpayer funded security.
Fri Nov 21, 2025, 07:56 PM
Friday

And live on US military bases. Again on the taxpayer dime.

Yet they can terrorize the rest of us night and day.
Nazi Bastards.

lonely bird

(2,635 posts)
2. So...
Fri Nov 21, 2025, 10:13 PM
Friday

These former military personnel reminded the military that they do not and must not obey illegal orders. And Republicans throw a fit.

But, Traitor Tom Cotton fucking around with Obama’s foreign policy in the letter to Iran was OK.

Fuck. These. People.

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