'Lock them up!' Trump demands jailing of Dem veterans who urged troops to disobey him

Donald Trump has called a group of Democratic veterans "traitors" as they urge military members to refuse unlawful orders.

The president posted to Truth Social Thursday, calling the stance of Democratic party members, including Senators and Representatives, "really bad." Trump shared a link to the Washington Examiner and wrote, "This is really bad, and Dangerous to our Country. Their words cannot be allowed to stand. SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR FROM TRAITORS!!! LOCK THEM UP??? President DJT."

Sens. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) and Mark Kelly (D-AZ) and Reps. Jason Crow (D-CO), Maggie Goodlander (D-NH), Chris Deluzio (D-PA), and Chrissy Houlahan (D-PA) issued a joint statement calling on active service members to disobey unlawful orders. Though it was not specified which orders would be deemed unlawful, they told troops to hold firm when put under pressure.

Crow told Fox News, "We are standing by our troops, our service members who are often put in very difficult positions and Donald Trump has put them in very difficult positions and has alluded to putting them in even more difficult positions in the months and years ahead, so we are reminding folks about what the uniform code of military justice says, what the Constitution says, what the law of war says."

Former Army Ranger Crow continued that it "will be too late" to warn troops to stand against unlawful orders if they did not act now. He added, "Donald Trump has made a series of very disturbing comments and suggestions that would violate U.S. law and put our military in a terrible position.

"I don’t want to wait until that happens to remind our troops of this obligation because then it will be too late." Like Trump, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth has called the Democrats' calling for unlawful acts to be refused the "al Qaeda of the Western Hemisphere."

Hegseth said, "We got lawyers on lawyers, all the authorities necessary to do so, treating these terrorists like the al Qaeda of the Western Hemisphere." Senator Marsha Blackburn also backed Trump and Hegseth, saying that those who defy their orders are breaching their oath.

She said, "It is inconceivable that you would have elected officials that are saying to uniformed members of the military who have taken an oath that they would defy the orders that they have been given to execute their mission."