Overview
- Six participants — Sens. Elissa Slotkin and Mark Kelly and Reps. Jason Crow, Chrissy Houlahan, Chris Deluzio, and Maggie Goodlander — are veterans or former intelligence officers who told service members to refuse illegal orders.
- President Trump posted that their actions were “SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR, punishable by DEATH!” and reshared a call to hang them, then said Friday he was not threatening death but that they were in “serious trouble.”
- Deluzio reported bomb threats at two district offices and Slotkin said her home was targeted by a bomb threat later deemed not credible, while Crow released audio of explicit death threats and all six added precautionary security.
- Crow, Houlahan, and Deluzio submitted complaints to the U.S. Capitol Police, as several Republican figures criticized the president’s rhetoric and the White House said he was not calling for executions.
- Fact‑checks and legal experts noted the video referenced only illegal orders under the UCMJ and said the conduct is not sedition, adding that federal sedition penalties include fines and prison terms, not death.