Photo screenshots taken of viral video circulating on X featuring -- Senator Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.), Senator Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.), and Representatives Jason Crow (D-Colo.), Maggie Goodlander (D-N.H.), Chris Deluzio (D-Penn.) and Chrissy Houlahan (D-Penn.).

Trump: Democrat lawmakers urging U.S. service members to defy ‘illegal orders’ are ‘traitors’ who should face trial for ‘SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR’

In a Thursday post on Truth Social, President Donald Trump branded six Democrat lawmakers as “traitors” for releasing a video on Tuesday that seemingly urged the U.S. military and intelligence community to defy orders from his administration. He demanded that the Democrats be “ARRESTED AND PUT ON TRIAL.”

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(Background) WASHINGTON, DC - OCTOBER 06: White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt (R) speaks during a press briefing in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House on October 06, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images) / (L-Top) Thomas Matthew Crooks. (Photo via: DOJ) / (L-Bottom) TOPSHOT - Republican candidate Donald Trump is seen with blood on his face surrounded by secret service agents as he is taken off the stage at a campaign event at Butler Farm Show Inc. in Butler, Pennsylvania, July 13, 2024. Donald Trump was hit in the ear in an apparent assassination attempt by a gunman at a campaign rally on Saturday, in a chaotic and shocking incident that will fuel fears of instability ahead of the 2024 US presidential election. The 78-year-old former president was rushed off stage with blood smeared across his face after the shooting in Butler, Pennsylvania, while the gunman and a bystander were killed and two spectators critically injured. (Photo by Rebecca DROKE / AFP) (Photo by REBECCA DROKE/AFP via Getty Images)

Leavitt says Americans deserve answers on Thomas Crooks’ motive to assassinate Trump: ‘And I believe the president does too’

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt proclaimed that the American people deserve answers about the motive of would-be Trump assassin Thomas Matthew Crooks following conservative commentator Tucker Carlson’s investigation, which suggested that the FBI is withholding information.

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