'Unglued!' House lawmaker punches back after Trump calls for her execution
Rep. Maggie Goodlander (D-NH) is unbowed in the wake of President Donald Trump suggesting that her and a number of other Democratic lawmakers' video reminding troops they can refuse unlawful orders is "punishable by death" — and reiterated her stance to CNN's Wolf Blitzer on Friday morning.
"Congresswoman, first of all, thanks so much for your service. Thanks so much for joining us," said Blitzer. "I want to play what the White House press secretary said just a little while ago about you specifically. Listen to this."
"Maggie Goodlander was a Naval officer, and notably, she was also — she is also the wife of Joe Biden's National Security Adviser, Jake Sullivan," said Karoline Leavitt in the clip. "And so these members knew what they were doing. That is a very, very dangerous message. And it perhaps is punishable by law."
"What's your response, Congresswoman, to that?" said Blitzer.
"Look, we love this country," said Goodlander. "We love our Constitution. We believe in it deeply. It is not sedition. It is not a crime to state what the federal law says, and what our law says is something really important for this moment that our servicemembers, our brave servicemembers who step up to serve our country, they obey only lawful orders. It's a core American principle rooted in our Constitution, and it's essential to our national security and to public safety. Because public safety and national security depend upon public trust."
"So what we've done is to say what the law is, and it's very telling that the president has become so unglued by a simple statement of federal law," she added.
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