Leavitt says president does not want to execute Democratic lawmakerspublished at 19:13 GMT<\/p>\n
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White House responds to Trump post calling for Democrats to be executed<\/p>\n
After a series of rapid question and answers, the White House briefing abruptly ended.<\/p>\n
Several topics were covered, but one that kept surfacing was Trump’s posts on social media earlier today about “seditious” behaviour. <\/p>\n
Leavitt was asked if the president wanted to “execute” members of Congress?<\/p>\n
Leavitt swiftly replied: no.<\/p>\n
It’s a topic that’s been discussed since Trump wrote on social media this morning, “SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR, punishable by DEATH” in reference to a video released by Democratic lawmakers.<\/p>\n
Six Democratic lawmakers recently posted a video on X encouraging US military members to obey the Constitution and “refuse illegal orders”.<\/p>\n
Responding to a reporter’s question, Leavitt said the focus should instead be on the “dangerous” words of the Democratic lawmakers, who she said encouraged active-duty service members to violate the chain of command. <\/p>\n
“It perhaps is punishable by law,” she said. <\/p>\n
We have reactions from Republicans and Democrats on Trump’s comments, which we will share with you next.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Leavitt says president does not want to execute Democratic lawmakerspublished at 19:13 GMT 19:13 GMT Media caption, White…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":303810,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-303809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303809\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}