The great and powerful President Trump has called out a group of Democrats for their patent act of sedition—a crime punishable by 20 years in prison, and by death for military personnel—following their release of a video urging US military and intelligence personnel to disobey “illegal” orders from the democratically elected Article II Executive Branch Commander-in-Chief.
While it has always been the law that unlawful orders need not be followed, this urging by the Democrats must necessarily be understood through the lens of their own self-serving political claims that Trump is already issuing orders they believe to be illegal.
Specifically, they claim--without evidence or legal basis or authority--that Trump’s bombings of Venezuelan drug boats engaged in irregular chemical warfare against the United States, a clear and present danger to our national security, are “illegal.”
Within that obvious context the Democrats crime of sedition is really incontestable—but will anything be done about it?
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