Overview
- Trump late Saturday renewed claims of “sedition at the highest level,” saying the six Democrats “should be in jail,” after earlier posts calling their actions “punishable by DEATH” and resharing a message urging they be hanged.
- Bomb threats were reported against five of the six lawmakers, including at Sen. Elissa Slotkin’s Michigan home and at offices for Reps. Jason Crow, Chrissy Houlahan, Chris Deluzio, and Maggie Goodlander, with police reporting no injuries.
- Reps. Crow and Deluzio asked the U.S. Capitol Police to investigate Trump’s posts as threatening, and Rep. Houlahan said her office filed a complaint following the surge in violent messages.
- The White House said Trump was not calling for executions while arguing the lawmakers encouraged defiance of lawful orders, as the president told a radio host he was not threatening them yet insisted they were in “serious trouble.”
- Scholars and former JAG officers widely reject the sedition label, noting service members must refuse manifestly unlawful orders under the UCMJ, while veterans and military lawyers warned the rhetoric risks politicizing the ranks and endangering officials.