White Home press secretary Karoline Leavitt informed Fox Information on Monday that the U.S. army “can’t have” troopers questioning whether or not an order is lawful within the area.
Final week, six Democratic lawmakers with army and intelligence backgrounds launched a video urging army service members to disobey unlawful orders from President Donald Trump’s administration. This led to a firestorm of criticism from the GOP and Trump, who referred to as the video “SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR” on social media and reposted a message that referred to as for the lawmakers to be executed.
Showing on “The Story With Martha MacCallum,” Leavitt condemned these lawmakers for “essentially encouraging [military personnel] to defy the orders of their commander-in-chief.
“They are trying to sow chaos and distrust, which is a very dangerous thing to do within the military,” Leavitt continued.
MacCallum mentioned the Democratic lawmakers at the moment are “kind of stepping all over themselves trying to answer the question about what they were talking about in the first place” within the launched video.
“They can’t answer the question, Martha, because there is no answer. They can’t identify illegal orders because there are no illegal orders,” Leavitt mentioned. “But they were suggesting, again, to the 1.3 million active duty service members in the military today that if you think an order is illegal, you don’t have to follow it.”
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“You can’t have a soldier out on the battlefield or conducting a classified order questioning whether that order is lawful or whether they should follow through,” Leavitt added. “There must be a chain of command in our military.”
On Sunday, Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.), one of many lawmakers to launch the video, admitted throughout an interview on ABC’s ”This Week″ that she was “not aware” of whether or not Trump has issued any unlawful orders to the army.
Along with Slotkin, the Nov. 18 video additionally included Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.), Rep. Chris Deluzio (D-Pa.), Rep. Maggie Goodlander (D-N.H.), Rep. Chrissy Houlahan (D-Pa.), and Rep. Jason Crow (D-Colo.).
The Division of Protection introduced Monday on X that it’s opening an investigation into Kelly, a retired Navy captain, in reference to the video.
Following the video’s launch, the FBI mentioned it’s working to schedule interviews with the lawmakers within the video.
Secretary of Protection Pete Hegseth referred to as the video “despicable, reckless, and false” in an X publish Monday.
“In the military, vague rhetoric and ambiguity undermines trust, creates hesitation in the chain of command, and erodes cohesion,” Hegseth added. “The military already has clear procedures for handling unlawful orders. It does not need political actors injecting doubt into an already clear chain of command.”
Watch Leavitt’s look on Fox Information under.
