{"id":309875,"date":"2025-11-24T00:41:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T00:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/309875\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T00:41:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T00:41:08","slug":"us-senator-slams-republicans-silence-on-trumps-violent-threats-to-democrats-us-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/309875\/","title":{"rendered":"US senator slams Republicans\u2019 silence on Trump\u2019s violent threats to Democrats | US politics"},"content":{"rendered":"

Senator Mark Kelly on Sunday urged congressional Republicans<\/a> to publicly reject Trump\u2019s threats against him and five other Democratic<\/a> lawmakers who stated that military personnel are not obligated to follow illegal commands.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve heard very little, basically crickets, from Republicans in the United States Congress about what the president has said about hanging members of Congress,\u201d Kelly, of Arizona, said on CBS\u2019s Face the Nation<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Kelly noted that both Donald Trump<\/a> and Republican legislators had previously asked Democrats to moderate their language after the fatal shooting<\/a> of conservative activist Charlie Kirk in September, asking: \u201cWhat happened to that?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHis words carry tremendous weight, more so than anybody else in the country, and he should be aware of that, and because of what he says, there is now increased threats against us,\u201d Kelly said of Trump\u2019s accusations.<\/p>\n

Earlier in the week, Kelly and five other Democratic members of Congress<\/a> released a video on X directed toward active-duty military and intelligence workers, stating: \u201cOur laws are clear. You can refuse illegal orders.\u201d All six participants have backgrounds in military or intelligence service. Kelly spent 25 years in the navy.<\/p>\n

Trump reacted on social media<\/a> on Thursday, writing that the lawmakers should be arrested and tried for \u201cseditious behavior\u201d. In another post, he declared \u201cSEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR, punishable by DEATH!\u201d and reposted a message saying \u201cHANG THEM, GEORGE WASHINGTON WOULD!\u201d<\/p>\n

In response, House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries, Democratic whip Katherine Clark, and Democratic caucus chair Pete Aguilar issued a joint statement condemning Trump\u2019s remarks, emphasizing that \u201cpolitical violence has no place in America.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kelly reiterated on Sunday that the president is \u201ctrying to intimidate us\u201d and added: \u201cI\u2019m not going to be intimidated.\u201d<\/p>\n

Minnesota Democrat Amy Klobuchar, in an interview on Meet the Press on Sunday, condemned Trump\u2019s \u201cdangerous\u201d posts. \u201cWhat is dangerous is the president of the United States threatening these members of Congress with death. Literally, saying that they should be executed,\u201d Klobuchar said.<\/p>\n

Vice-president JD Vance<\/a> also weighed in on Sunday, posting<\/a> on X: \u201cIf the president hasn\u2019t issued illegal orders, then members of Congress telling the military to defy the president is by definition illegal.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Senator Mark Kelly on Sunday urged congressional Republicans to publicly reject Trump\u2019s threats against him and five other…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":309876,"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-309875","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\/309875","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=309875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309875\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}