Vice President JD Vance criticized Democrats after several lawmakers released a video urging U.S. service members to “defy illegal orders” – a message that President Donald Trump and conservatives argue may amount to calls for “sedition,” “insurrection,” or potentially deadly mutiny, if not a presidential coup.
“If the president hasn’t issued illegal orders, then members of Congress telling the military to defy the president is by definition illegal,” Vance wrote in a post on X, sharing an RNC Research post with remarks made by Sen. Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich., to ABC News’ “This Week.”
Pressed on whether Trump had issued any unlawful orders to the military, Slotkin acknowledged she knew of no such order.
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