Overview
- Five of the six lawmakers featured in the video reported bomb threats to homes or district offices on Friday, with police searches in Michigan, Pennsylvania, Colorado, and New Hampshire finding no injuries and rendering suspicious items safe.
- Reps. Jason Crow and Chris Deluzio formally asked U.S. Capitol Police to investigate the president’s Truth Social posts, and Rep. Chrissy Houlahan’s office said it filed a complaint as well.
- Crow released audio compilations of graphic voicemails received after the posts, saying threats against him, his family, and staff escalated almost immediately.
- The White House said the president was not calling for executions, though he maintained the lawmakers were in “serious trouble,” and his press secretary framed their message as encouraging defiance of lawful orders.
- Legal and military experts said the video does not meet the definition of sedition and noted the federal sedition statute does not carry a death penalty, while the Uniform Code of Military Justice obligates troops to refuse manifestly unlawful orders.