CIA Analyst and Senator, Elissa Slotkin, appears on ABC’s Face the Nation to defend herself from accusations of unlawful conduct following a video she produced telling military and intelligence officers to defy President Trump’s orders.
Senator Slotkin’s behavior is classic tradecraft when she appears in media.
Slotkin claimed the video was intended to draw attention to the unlawful orders that President Trump has used; however, when asked to give an example of a illegal order issued by President Trump, Slotkin nervously admits there aren’t any. WATCH (prompted):
[TRANSCRIPT] – […] RADDATZ: And here’s what White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said about your video.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
KAROLINE LEAVITT, WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY: They’re suggesting, Nancy, that the president has given illegal orders, which he has not. Every single order that is given to this United States military by this commander in chief and through this command — chain of command, through the secretary of war is lawful.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
RADDATZ: Is that an accurate statement?
SLOTKIN: So, I think the reason we put that statement out is because the sheer number of, frankly, young officers who are coming to us and saying, I just am not sure. What do I do? You know, I’m in SouthCom and I’m involved in the National Guard. I’m just not sure what do I do? And I think, look, you don’t have to take my word for it. We’ve had report after report of legal officer, JAG officers coming forward and saying, look, I push back on this. I’m not sure that this is legal.
There is such things as illegal orders. That’s why it’s in the Uniform Code of Military Justice. Going back to Nuremberg, right? And it’s just a — it’s a totally benign statement. And if the president is concerned about it, then he should stay deeply within the law. But I think it’s important to know it’s not hypothetical, right?
This president in the last administration, his last administration, asked his secretary of defense and his chairman of the Joint Chiefs to, quote, “shoot at their legs at unarmed protesters in front of the White House that he wanted moved.”
RADDATZ: Actually, I know I know you’re talking about Mark Esper’s book. He didn’t exactly say that. He said the president suggested that, but they were never ordered to do that.
SLOTKIN: And he got out of the Oval Office quickly so that he wasn’t told to actually do it. And I give him a lot of credit for that. I give him a lot of credit.
RADDATZ: I do — so — so, let’s talk right now. Do you believe President Trump has issued any illegal order?
SLOTKIN: To my knowledge, I am not aware of things that are illegal, but certainly there are some legal gymnastics that are going on with these Caribbean strikes and everything related to Venezuela. And I think that’s why —
RADDATZ: And be specific about that. Let me read you what Senator Lindsey Graham said about your video. “You owe it to the men and women in the military to be specific about what you are talking about. What these senators and House members did was unnerving and it was unconscionable to suggest that the President of the United States is issuing unlawful orders without giving an example.”
SLOTKIN: Yeah. So, for me, my primary concern is the use of U.S. military on American shores, on our city — in our cities and in our streets. We’ve seen now the courts overturn the deployment of U.S. military into our streets, including here in Washington, D.C.
When you look at these videos coming out of places like Chicago, it makes me incredibly nervous that we’re about to see people in law enforcement, people in uniformed military get nervous, get stressed, shoot at American civilians. It is a very, very stressful situation for these law enforcement and for the communities on the ground. So, it was basically a warning to say, like, if you’re asked to do something particularly against American citizens, you have the ability to go to your JAG officer and push back.
RADDATZ: And with these service members calling you, couldn’t you have done a video saying just what you just said? If you are asked to do something, if — if you are worried about whether it is legal or not, you can do this. It does imply that the President is having illegal orders, which you have not seen.
SLOTKIN: I think for us, it was just a statement widely, right? We say very quickly and very — to all the folks who come to us, this is the process. Go to your JAG officer, ask them for explanation, for top cover, for their view on things. We do that on a case-by-case basis, but we wanted to speak directly to the volumes of people who had come to us on this.
RADDATZ: And it is very clear that no one should follow an illegal order, but it’s very murky when you look at what is an illegal order. And if you go into morally, ethically, that’s a pretty tough thing to look at and say, how do I navigate this?
SLOTKIN: I don’t — I mean, going back to Nuremberg, right, that, well, they told me to do it, that’s why I murdered people, is not an excuse. If you look at popular culture, like, you watch, you know, A Few Good Men, like we have plenty of examples since World War II in Vietnam, where people were told to follow illegal orders, and they did it, and they were prosecuted for it.
So, the best thing for people to do is go to their JAG officer, their local law enforcement or a legal officer in their unit, and ask for some explanation, ask for help. And that’s what we’ve been advising people to do.
RADDATZ: You are on the Senate Armed Services Committee. What are you seeing in terms of Venezuela? Do you think there will be further action by the president?
SLOTKIN: Well, certainly the sheer size of the military buildup in and around Venezuela. I mean, you have to assume that when superpowers put that much force into an area that they’re going to use it. They brought in aircraft carriers, they brought in F-35s.
I think the cost already is a billion dollars to move all that force into theater. Certainly, if we’re going to actually think about prosecuting some sort of war or military action against the mainland of Venezuela, I would hope that the president would want to have that conversation publicly, bring in the American people who are not looking to get into another war, who are not looking to get into regime change. We had Iraq and Afghanistan. I think people generally on all sides of the aisle are exhausted by war. But just have that conversation, be transparent about it. I think that’s what’s been hard about the strikes in the Caribbean.
Many of us would be supportive of going after drug cartels, but a secret list of secret terrorist organizations, you know, just be transparent with the American public.
RADDATZ: OK, thanks very much for joining us this morning, Senator. We appreciate it.
She should already be in jail awaiting trial.
How about high altitude drop over Kiev.
No parachute.
Would that be like the modern day equivalent of the ‘Fat Man’ bomb?
Terminal Velocity followed by Deceleration Trauma.
Good Times.
Bomber bays are not heated so they would be dropping an elongated ice cube.
How about set out to sea in a leaky raft, in shark infested waters?
If we had an opposition party she would be.
What do you mean awaiting a trial? She already along with others in her group actually telling the military to disregard POTUS Trump’s illegal order to incite treason all captured on video warrants a one way trip to GTMO for an appearance before a tribunal to adjudicate her punishment
It will be a short trial… followed by a swift conviction. Oh, and a very lengthy sentence!
Slotkin says, “There is (sic) such things as illegal orders….it’s a totally benign statement.”
Not so. In the video prior to the statement rgarding “illegal orders” Senator Mark Kelly says “this administration is pitting our uniformed military and intelligence community professionals against American citizens.”
This clearly is meant to imply “this administration” is giving illegal orders.
That is NOT a BENIGN statement.
“…this administration is pitting our uniformed military and intelligence community professionals against American citizens.”
Kelly gaslighting. It’s the intelligence community that pits itself against American citizens.
I keep sensing that they’re calling illegals citizens.
I think she’s positioning to be Newsom’s VP pick.
Although, what she’s doing is repugnant, it’s a resume enhancer in the Democrat party.
Oh yes, she most definitely has her eye on the White House.
She would if we had a real Attorney General.
President Donald J Trump mentioned “Military Courts” in the Kilmeade interview the other day. There are allot of traitors and criminals that need to be prosecuted, perhaps military tribunals is the only way to save our Republic.
Only We the People can fix this!🇺🇲
Mark my words, when it’s all said and done, it might require ‘We the People’, but it will require 2 specific people … both Smith and Wesson. It’s bad enough the regressives want to burn the country down, but if they don’t get their way, you can count on violence.
no sir…in this stage only…ML
The judges on all the JAG courts are Obama plants, just like the civilian ones. It would be great to see it turn out otherwise.
See Ex parte Milligan (1866).
“The use of military tribunals in cases of civilians was often controversial, as tribunals represented a form of justice alien to the common law, which governs criminal justice in the United States, and provides for trial by jury, the presumption of innocence, forbids secret evidence, and provides for public proceedings. Critics of the Civil War military tribunals charged that they had become a political weapon, for which the accused had no legal recourse to the regularly constituted courts, and no recourse whatsoever except through an appeal to the President.
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed, and unanimously ruled that military tribunals used to try civilians in any jurisdiction where the civil courts were functioning were unconstitutional, with its [unanimous] decision in Ex parte Milligan (1866).”
Thank you!
Ty me also. See above
My state has been invaded. Has yours?
Are the civil courts functioning? Take a look at the lawfare craziness coming out of the DC district court and tell me whether the courts are functioning. That is a seditious bench, not an impartial court.
PDJT did say “Military Courts”……………………………………………………
BREAKING: Democrat Senator Mark Kelly Faces Court-Martial After Department of War Launches Review of Allegations of Misconduct
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/11/breaking-democrat-senator-mark-kelly-faces-court-martial/
Ex parte Milligan (1866)
Ex parte Milligan, 71 U.S. 2 (1866), is a landmark decision by the U.S. Supreme Court that established critical limits on military authority during wartime. The Court ruled that military tribunals cannot try civilians when civilian courts are open and functioning, even during war. This decision affirmed the supremacy of civil law over military rule in areas not directly affected by active combat.
Lamdin P. Milligan, an Indiana civilian and critic of the Union, was arrested in 1864 and convicted by a military commission for conspiring to aid the Confederacy and incite insurrection. The Supreme Court unanimously held that, as Indiana was not invaded or in rebellion and its civil courts remained operational, Milligan had the constitutional right to a trial by jury in a civilian court.
Justice David Davis delivered the majority opinion, stating that “martial rule can never exist when the courts are open.” The ruling reinforced constitutional protections, including habeas corpus and the right to a fair trial, even in times of national crisis.
Further more people are also under the very mistaken belief that the the Bill Of Rights and a very Strict Rules of Evidence do not exist in Military Judicial Courts, defined under UCMJ. Those Rights and Rules are just as much a part of UCMJ as they are “Civilian Courts”.
Even under non-Judicial proceedings defined in Article 15 of UCMJ … the accused has rights, which have to be read and explained to the the accused.
Did PDJT initiate some EO’s from his first term that are ongoing? PDJT said the Military Courts were looking into it. PDJT does not typically say things that have no merit. I wonder if this goes back to foreign government election interference/ or some major criminality with Ukraine and or possibly Al-Qaeda? Slotkin and Co sound like they are cornered rats to me.
Opinion only but those members of the sedition video which were former military are indeed subject to recall to duty and prosecution. That does not apply to former intelligence personnel, (mores the pity).
There can be no military tribunals unless and until the country descends into open civil war that would apply to civilians and I know of no surer means to precipitate a civil war and open rebellion than attempting to utilize military tribunals against civilians so long as our civil courts give the semblance of functioning.
This is a “Q” pipe dream and deliberately done to confuse.
Idiots like Slotkin were carefully chosen and no accident that she is in the Senate which would rally the big club around her if she were detained. “They” want a martial law declaration by the president so as to forment open rebellion and dissolution of the civil government.
Let’s be very clear these people are likely agents of a foreign power embedded within our intelligence “assets”. They want our country to fall apart like Venezuela or Ukraine. The DOJ and the FBI are the lawful answer …… not holding my breath.
Friend monti, I do appreciate you and your response and of course your many posts over the years which sometimes included me in the discussion. If it is a Q pipedream, I find it interesting that PDJT said it.
I had heard of some EO’s from his first term that were still rolling, I’m thinking that is what caused PDJT to mention “Military Courts”, but again PDJT said it not me. Ty for your info and comment. Hope your doing good mate. Cheers
Who are “they”?
Mark Kelly Issues Defiant Response After Department of War Opens Misconduct Probe
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/11/mark-kelly-issues-defiant-response-after-department-war/
The descendants of Revolutionary War officers is called the Society of the Cincinnati.
What is your take on PDJT mentioning “Military Courts” on the Kilmeade interview you linked to the other day Sundance?
And once again, absolutely nothing will happen to these traitors.
Wow!
Once you see the strings, you just can’t unsee them. Like Chuckie said, The IC can get back at you nine ways from Sunday”
Elites Slutkin is muh better.
If everyone at the CIA is as stupid as Slotkin and Spanberger we have a serious problem. They must have Affirmative Action for Dummies over there.
Marie Harf also got her start as CIA analyst.
You misspelled “Barf”.
“I think the reason we put that statement out is because the sheer number of, frankly, young officers who are coming to us and saying, I just am not sure. What do I do? You know, I’m in SouthCom and I’m involved in the National Guard. I’m just not sure what do I do?”
If true and these complaining officers actually exist, those officers must be investigated. Officers are calling her, a U.S. Senator, and expressing doubt about what is their duty…. doesn’t ring true. But if it is true, that’s a big problem that needs to get fixed.
You can safely file her assertion under “Things that did not happen.”
If I had asked this type of silly ass question as a young cavalry officer, my squadron commander would hav personally beaten me and then my dad might have mauled me. I would have deserved it.
Also, if anyone was to ask a question regarding the legality of an order, it would most definitely NOT be of a member of congress…and any such person should be brought up on charges for going outside the proper channels.
Exactly!!! Democrats lie even under oath!!!
Or just under the BS round file!!!
That lie was her out card. I had a Navy lifer work for me when he retired from the Navy. It was during Odumbo’s presidency, and I said to this man that we can count on the military to overthrow Odumbo’s reckless government. He flat out said, there is no way the military would go against their Commander in Chief.
He’s correct, the military would N-E-V-E-R overthrow the government of the United States. Ever.
The sheer number could be zero or one.
And I’m betting on zero.
I don’t know what military personnel are told now, but back in the day, if you received an order you suspected was illegal, you first requested that the order be given in writing.
I bet these “young officers” are graduates of the Biden DEI military.
They don’t exist, unless paid to ask this lunacy.
“We had Iraq and Afghanistan. I think people generally on all sides of the aisle are exhausted by war.”
Unless and except of course, when it comes to Ukraine. Slotkin et al are all gung-ho about going to war with Russia in a heartbeat. So much for her saying they are all exhausted by war….
Yeah, I always call up my favorite 👀 when I have a legal or moral conflict…./s (if anyone needed to question the /s.)
How many of those “young officers” coming to them have a last name Vindman?
you guys don’t remember that constitutional amendment we passed? you know, the one that changed the chain of command to:
enlisted men -> officers -> flag officers -> secretary -> commander in chief -> some CIA bitch?
You forgot the most important one in there… some scumbag federal judge from bumbletown at the very top. That’s who has the final say in all matters when they don’t get their way.
She actually cited A Few Good Men as an example of an illegal order. A freaking movie as her example?!
Next she will claim that President Trump is not able to negotiate with Klingons because they are at war with the Federation.
LOL
What a demonic witch.
Good catch.
Liberal educated women are going to be the death of the country. Why are so many of them coming from Michigan? It seems like they are corrupt on top of everything else.
“Wimmin” like Slotkin…and there are plenty of them…give the rest of us a bad name.
They are strident, unattractive, underhanded, ruthless, and without a shred of womanliness. They despise men, are dedicated to not only proving they can do any job a man can but will best them at it, and they resent that they have been born with XX genes.
I hope that having shot her mouth off, she is on reflection regretting having done so.
I suspect she didn’t think this stupid stunt through. Actions (followed by repenting in leisure) have consequences, Slotkin.
May you and your seditionist cohorts reap every single one of them.
Exceptionally well said. Feminazism run amok.
Thank you, Hoo…
Even Aristotle recognized it.
“Masculine Republics give way to feminine democracies, and feminine democracies give way to tyranny.”
I think those are the ones who make hard men, who make for better days.
You know…🤔
Now that you mention it, I cannot think of a single hard man in either the House or the Senate.
Not a single one.
Isn’t that a horrendous admission? Sad, sad days.
In every respect, yes.
🎯
I can think of one possibility – Higgins.
I’ll agree with that.
The reason they hate our President. Jealousy is a dangerous thing.
Morgan Lutrell, Eli Crane in House, Eric Schmidt Senate.
Morgan Luttrell will not run again…no reason given.
-1
Don’t know Eli Crane, but Eric Schmidt, while principled, doesnt fit my idea of a hard man.
OUCH!!! Been goin’ on for quite awhile. Give me Joan of Arc, thank you!
I always think of and remember Margaret Thatcher, Guest.
She managed and executed the power she had, never losing her femininity. It has been reported that although she was not beautiful by any measure, she possessed an allure, a mystique which made the knees of the male leaders she dealt with buckle.
I watched her in every imaginable situtation, but especially in the daily Prime Minister’s questions with this in mind; and I could well believe it.
Quick, smart, never suffered fools, always feminine, but she knew her strength as a woman and deployed it to great effect. She was well bred in her speech and in her manner and in a class by herself.
None of the above could be applied to Slotkin or any other appalling members of her liberal sisterhood who when in positions of power or influence go out of their way to make everyone’s lives miserable.
Confidence and Competence are always appealing, both in men and in women. That was Mrs. Thatcher’s allure
Someone firmly rooted in timeless, unshakeable principles that they deeply believe in, acts with confidence. They know, absolutely know, what is right and what is wrong. They don’t need to pretend they know, they DO know.
When those principles are true and good that also gives that person competence. They can handle any challenge.
The combination is so alluring in part because it is so rare, particularly in politics.
How well you defined it, Gulag.
In every respecr.
You are discerning and eloquent in your appreciation and are absolutely correct.
In Mrs Thatcher’s case principled as she was, it is probably why her all male cabinet despised her so mucb…and feared her. She had what they did not, and they hated her for it. The contrast between strength and abject weakness was too stark.
And when it became obvious and too much for them, they banded together as bullies do, waiting until she was in France, and took her out.
Cowards and assassins all.
Then proceeded on a course of dismantling Britain’s sovereignty…the terrible and I think irreversible results of which we are bearing witness to lo the decades later.
Agree with your sentiment, Betsy. But have to say that Aristotle never wrote that line. It may be a learned analytical assessment of Aristotle’s discussion of democracy/oligarchy/tyranny in Books 4 and 5 of Politics, but those are not Aristotle’s words — merely someone else’s State Farm French Model content.
I always want correct attribution, DD.
Thank you.
Having thrown herself into such a project,
I have to wonder
whether the Senator was ever considered to be among “the best” of CIA analysts.
(I guess that anybody can be a Senator nowadays.)
🤡¿
Why would someone competent jump into the senate?
money
And power and control!
Doesn’t require competence and certainly has nothing to do with service.
Unlimited money, incredible perks.
CIA embedded in the Senate.
CIA now has their agent on the Senate Armed Services and Homeland Security committees.
Spanberger was CIA embedded in the House, now governor of VA.
Someone, I don’t remember who, said she was “Tim Waltz in a dress”. In light of the recent scandals in Minnesota it rings true.
The most plausible shape shifter anyway, RCR.
A “Chatty Cathy” most capable of being a “go between” for the entity she once worked in and the one of which she is a member of now.
Bet she still has connections and shares everything she learns in her new iteration.
I would love to sit back and listen to a dialogue
between RHL III and Aristotle on their thoughts with regard to the breaking of that “giving way” cycle which you cite above.
Something tells me that a final solution is unachievable; that unrelenting engagement, no matter the outcome, is what matters in the end.
I believe you are right, dear friend.
It has been this way from the beginning I’m afraid.
Nevertheless, such a conversation would be fascinating, yes.
That’s where the money is: unrelenting conflict.
Not at all, it takes a very special sort of 🤡
In my opinion, white college educated women (leftists) when put in positions of power will bring the downfall of this nation. I’ve never seen such TDS on steroids.
She’s clearly nuts but dangerously so because she’s in a position of power.
They are all Nurse Ratchet types, Teresa.
Ms Betsy, you have remarkably good taste in movies.
Wish they still made good ones, dear taspok.
I was thinking something more along the lines of the lead loon in the movie Misery.
I think there’s a loon in every one. And worse in some.
Ratched.
I would agree and add another group of women to the downfall, the militant black females like Jasmine Crockett, Stacey Plaskett, Michelle Obama, Fani , Tricia , Marilyn etc……..
See the excellent piece by Helen Andrews October 16, 2025 https://www.compactmag.com/article/the-great-feminization/
Yes, that’s the exact article I had in mind.
Before you stress “white” think of Jasmine Crockett.
Well you know what they say…there’s no such thing as a former CIA officer.
See my reply above to Ruling Class Revolt, Rowdy…
Precisely 👍🏻
Amen Betsy. But we do have to remember the downfall of every great man in the Bible was a woman, Adam, King David, and on and on, so this crap has been around a long time. I raised my boys to be strong men and my daughter to be a smart, educated woman that loves and respects the wonderful men in her life. So it really is on us, ladies.
These creatures have divested themselves of the powers God gave them…us. With more than a little assistance starting LBJ who made two salaries necessary to support a home, thus depriving sons and daughters of an in-house mother. And eventually replacing fathers with daddy government financially, making a father redundant. Depriving boys of guidance and a strong role model.
My mother always told me if I wanted to know what sort of husband I’d be marrying was, simply observe how he treated his mother.
And so with this in mind I and my husband have, like you, taken great efforts to educate our daughters and son, and later grands (now young adults) in this regard.
We’d consider ourselves failed had we not.
I SINCERELY doubt she regrets anything.
“Je ne regrette rien” as the song goes…
Perhaps there is a chance she will be made to regret…at some point.
(I know, I know…but I can still hope.)
We can pray too.
I personally don’t think the b…. is reflecting on anything and is likely delusional to such a degree that she thinks she can do absolutely anything and not face the consequences, both do to her ‘pedigree’ and do to the fact that nobody above a certain level has faced serious and appropriate consequences in many decades.
My own wish is that a squad of marines arrest her in the middle of the night, along with other such squads doing so to her co-conspirators, and the lot of them put on a C-130 straight to Guantanamo to face a military tribunal for their actions. Let her face reality, instead of fantasy.
*due 😮
Until something like that happens…and oh BROTHER how I wish it would….absolutely nothing will change.
We keep waiting as the emboldened, egregious treachery escalates. And will continue to do so until, God forbid, something truly terrible happens.
I wonder how bad it has to get before people like Slotkin, her handlers, et al are called to actual, costly account so that they understand they are not exempt from the laws which they subject the rest of us to.
What does educated mean? Let’s say she sat though lectures at a university. It’s a stretch to say that she is educated.
Absorbed all the indoctrination sessions well just before joining a dope-orgy with the same professor! Extra-credits you know!
Mark Steyn nailed it for people like her…over credentialed, undereducated.
But I am partial to HL Men men’s quote…
“It’s the classic fallacy of our time that a moron run through university and decorated with a Ph.D will thereby cease to be a moron.”
Dadgum autocorrect…
HL Mencken!!
I thought it was your pet name for him, and quite cute 🤭
😂
S. A. D.?
Jezebel spirit.
Ms. slotkin and the rest of the ‘rats in this video need to pay a steep price for their actions, but we know they won’t. Not too many years ago they all would have been up for treason and summarily executed, and I might add very quickly.
Weapons 4 Ukraine (& Military Industrial Complex)
I wonder if Slotkin & Co are worried about some high treason coming out? Perhaps a Al-Qaeda-Ukraine connection?
So glad President Trump called out Marjorie Traitor Greene and sent the cockroach scurrying. What a pathetic woman. Good riddance. Even the Democrats started to like her which tells you all you need to know.
Hope he does the same with the (6) Democrat traitors who want our military to disobey lawful orders, including this bimbo.
I cannot believe what i just read. They get on TV and spew untruths and try to go around it. I mean thats normal but this takes the cake as they say
” a video she produced telling military and intelligence officers to defy President Trump’s orders.”
Must be a different video than the one I saw/heard.
The video I saw/heard did not even mention President Trump. Nor did it say the current President. And it said nothing about defying ng legal orders. Was it some kind of “Dog Whistle” ? Could be, but what someone views as a “Dog Whistle” is not a criminal offense. And members of America’s military are not a bunch of dogs.
President Trump should not be making claims of sedition / treason (an executable offense) over this lame video and acting so defensively. President Trump should just have said, in a calm manner, “Congratulations, you Democrats, you finally got something right. It’s about time! Members of the U.S. military should not obey illegal orders. And under their current President, they are being given no illegal orders”.
If charges of sedition and/or treason against these 6 ever, in any form, made it all the way up to the US Supreme Count, it would be 9 to 0 to laugh it out of court. Of course, no at all actual reasonable prosecutor would ever take it up. People can yell at “Blondie” from the bleachers all they want and she still isn’t going to charge them with sedition or treason or anything like that.
Now if this were China or Iran or Russia, rather than America, it would all be a very different matter.
(Slotkin clarified in a follow-up interview on November 23 that the video was not accusing President Trump of issuing illegal orders, but was instead a general reminder of legal and ethical duties, citing precedents like the Nuremberg trials and the film A Few Good Men. She noted that many young officers had approached them with concerns and advised service members to consult their JAG officers if uncertain about an order’s legality)
They and we know what they were saying. It wasn’t a general PSA. If it were why didn’t it run when Biden was supposed to be President. Or any other President
Of course, that was exactly their intention. You know, I know it, they know, and their audience knows it. However, they were careful to say “illegal order”, thus providing them with a defense. Everyone knows their treacherous intentions, but we can’t even get Comey, Letitia, Schiff, and a couple hundred others, to face any measure of accountability for transparently illegal behavior. I wish it weren’t true, but if I’m not pretending, this crew will never be accountable for their sneaky seditious video. At least not in this lifetime.
They said what they said. Do many here want to prosecute them for a thought crime? Looks that way.
The double edge of freedom of speech.
Thought crime? They don’t speak and make very clear to disobey the chain of command?
The intent was obvious. Any that dont see it, willingly dont see it.
Agreed.
I think the title of the video that was repeated by all six at the end, in case we were in any doubt as to their intentions, and the phrase that now threats to the constitution come from inside the country, not just outside, shows their real purpose.
Their backtracking, in interviews afterwards, also shows that Trump made the right call.
Exactly.
Save it for some other web site. Those who routinely read here know exactly what was intended.
Silly semantics to defend those treasonous pieces of trash is infuriating.
This may or may not rise to the level of sedition but it definitely qualifies as subversion. You can quibble about legal definitions but PDJT is not a lawyer. He speaks in layman’s terms, like “they tapped my wires!”
Let’s roll with this: 18 U.S.C. § 2387 – U.S. Code – Unannotated Title 18. Crimes and Criminal Procedure § 2387. Activities affecting armed forces generally
(a) Whoever, with intent to interfere with, impair, or influence the loyalty, morale, or discipline of the military or naval forces of the United States:
(1) advises, counsels, urges, or in any manner causes or attempts to cause insubordination, disloyalty, mutiny, or refusal of duty by any member of the military or naval forces of the United States; or
(2) distributes or attempts to distribute any written or printed matter which advises, counsels, or urges insubordination, disloyalty, mutiny, or refusal of duty by any member of the military or naval forces of the United States–
Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both, and shall be ineligible for employment by the United States or any department or agency thereof, for the five years next following his conviction.
(b) For the purposes of this section, the term “military or naval forces of the United States” includes the Army of the United States, the Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, Navy Reserve, Marine Corps Reserve, and Coast Guard Reserve of the United States; and, when any merchant vessel is commissioned in the Navy or is in the service of the Army or the Navy, includes the master, officers, and crew of such vessel.
CORRECT – BRING THIS
https://law.justia.com/codes/us/title-18/part-i/chapter-115/sec-2387/
Your ‘name’ and post remind me of the ol’ saying about some people being “blind in one eye and can’t see out of the other…”
Nice try.
Are you the only person anywhere who doesn’t see that in their carefully couched words likely vetted by a team of expensive lawyers that these people are telling the military to interfere with the chain of command?
But thanks for illustrating their carefully constructed “who, MOI???” they saved for after they did their damage.
Intentional ambivalence is a lie, but not treason. Such is one of the differences between morals and the law.
Re “Must be a different video than the one I saw/heard.
The video I saw/heard did not even mention President Trump. Nor did it say the current President.”
I don’t know what video you watched; but here’s a direct quote from the one I saw…
“This administration is pitting our uniformed military and intelligence community professionals against American citizens.”
If not the current president whose name happens to be Trump, just who do you think that might be referring to?
Re “And it said nothing about defying ng legal orders.”
Slotkin’s and her cohorts’ words were meant to deliberately imply illegal orders had in fact been issued by President Trump. She then had to admit on national television she knows of no illegal orders being given. Therefore, it is more than reasonable to believe their intent was to convince members of the military to defy legal orders.
As Sundance has stated, the video was produced by Slotkin and is an example of her tradecraft in the CIA.
🙄 Derp.
This is clearly Sedition.
President Trump must immediately remove their security clearances. Have the FBI investigate who was involved in making this seditious video and remove their clearances. Have DOJ prefer charges, give them a fair trial, and hang their traitorous asses.
Step down Slotkin you are way out of your lane – and your interview confirmed how far. You are a disgrace SHAME ON YOU!!
Military trial
She should be named Slotcar, cause her arguments keeps going around and around.
I like slotless as an appropriate handle.
Coin slot, as in plumber’s…. well you know. Because that’s what she’s made of herself.
slutkin should be considered direct CIA operative just like the j6 pipe bomber.
She is not even a legitimate US Senator.
In the 2024 election, Trump carried all the key swing states (Michigan included), but magically, these same voters who voted resoundingly for Trump then flipped a switch in their brains and decided to vote for Democrat Senators. The 2024 election results at the House and Senate level make no sense. Because, numerous seats were stolen in favor of the Democrats.
Until something SERIOUS is done about election fraud, illegitimate fools like Slotkin will continue to pollute American politics.
Trump needs to get his act together fast.
The Democrats are going to steal the House and Senate in 2026 and then turn against Trump and the MAGA agenda in full fury.
Yep, like Gallego getting in after Nov 21.
AZ voted Trump+160k.
Is that the one who’s dad is cartel?
Well, she had benson on her side, explains everything
Thanks for being on our show today Congresswoman Slotkin. Can you give us some examples of illegal orders you have refused to carry out when you were in the CIA?
Orders? The CIA don’t take no stinkin’ orders.
In Herman Wouk’s 1951 novel, The Caine Mutiny, there is a character, Lieutenant Tom Keifer, who carefully undermines the authority of his naval ship’s commander, Captain Queeg, by getting junior officers to question his orders, eventually leading to mutiny.
Keifer manipulated the junior officers into mutiny, while himself avoiding active participation in the mutiny.
Slotkin is no different than Keifer.
Excellent analogy!
I’m a little bit shocked that Radditz pushed back as much as she did.
She’s pretending. Had she been serious, it would have ended abruptly, but more harshly toward the traitors.
Did she just reference a Hollywood movie as evidence about illegal orders?????
Yes. How pathetic are these pretenders?
Consider the audience
Yes. She also brought up Nuremberg, which is over the top psychological manipulation in my view.
Someone referenced The Caine Mutiny upthread.
CIA.
It’s kinda heartwarming to observe the lengths this ‘agency’ is willing to go to today, and how openly the marriage with the demonratic party is now being shamelessly displayed.
Iseeit.
There’s something wrong with that person’s DNA.
Another waste of a “senator” we here in Michigan will likely be saddled with for decades. Gag me with a spoon!
F the IC
She is just another white liberal female. She has no evidence of illegal orders given by anyone. She references the Nuremberg trials. Give me a break.
I know it.
It’s like these leftists are in a such a bubble. Together, they spin each other into such a flurry of absolutely nutty ideas.
No, not “just another. white liberal female.” She was trained by the CIA and is a CIA imbed in the Congress.
🤣🤣🤣
Pathetic!
Did Senator Slotkin use the reference of the fictitious movie “A Few Good Men” as one of the examples to undermine a sitting President?
WTH?
Thought I was hearing things until I read the transcript. 🙄
All these sitting members of Congress who participated in this seditious video need to be criminally charged and bounced out of office. Hopefully in front of a military tribunal. 🔥
She might not be capable of telling fiction from actual reality. Being in Congress might do that to you, but the IC and Democrat party definitely will do that to you.
So from my times of watching Gomer Pyle, I seemed to recall military having chains of command. For example, President Trump would order Pete who orders generals who orders on and on down the line. How could low level commanders be complaining of orders given by President Trump who doesn’t give anything but a directive to Pete? Gomer Pyle was always safe from such orders.
The CIA/IC at large has beendisobeying/disregarding/lying to Presidents for years. Slutkin is just another CIA operative involved in a continuing psyop to subvert the Republic. Who do they work for? It certainly isn’t the American people.
The Bankers
Natasha Fatale in person.
It’s obvious from her demeanor she has no worries about the Republicans or the DOJ taking any action!!! With no push back look for more such videos attacking President Trump’s military orders!!! JMO
Slotkin is so full of shit.
The standards in both the Agency and the political DoD service must have been at rock bottom to let someone like this in. I can understand a complete dolt being elected to the US Senate–that happens all the time–but you’d think the Agency would have known better. She must have been a DEI hire for the Iraq War to meet some arbitrary number already forgotten.
What an idiot.
Nope. They don’t want intelligent, moral people; just the opposite.
Easier to control.
There are many levels of usefulness and qualifications….
Obama and Comey ordered the military and FBI to stand down to facilitate the Ft. Hood Shooter. They knew Hassan was texting with al Awlaki and let him.
Obiden ordered the Marines to let the suicide bomber detonate at Kabul Airport, to murder Marines and humiliate America during that Pre-Emptive Unconditional Surrender. Then sent them billions and billions.
Beijing ordered Employee Biden to poison American Troops with a Bio-Weapon VAXX. Obiden then gave an illegal order to murder and maim American troops.
In fairness, the Vaxx/Virus was a joint project of Wuhan and DARPA. Who builds and deploys Bio-weapons together? A: Allies.
Gen. Milley gave himself orders to spy on the President for the Chinese. And to block the National Guard from coming to the Capitol, which would have stopped the Coup he was participating in along with Pence/Pelosi Productions.
By all means, let’s discuss illegal orders.
Hopper, have you followed Dept of Defense directive 5240.01 from 9.27.2024? It was amended and approved by Kathleen H. Hicks, deputy Secretary of defense. It was supposedly quietly done. I cannot figure if this could be used. Any guidance on that? It just leaves me confused.
Oops. Gipper.
Don’t know, Nan.
It is so strange that we have not heard from Senate leadership about this behavior. Silence is not a good look here for Thune.
ROFLOL!!! Strange? You think so?
Yeah, funny that./s
No it’s not.
Just a quick question. Who would be handling the prosecution if it is decided to pursue a trial?
Would it be a joint Justice Department and Military Tribunal?
I’m so sick of Trump saying this and that should happen but it never happens . Want to win the midterms , than start prosecuting these criminals . It’s UNACCEPTABLE to continue to allow this lawlessness .
That’s exactly why they continue unabated. Nothing Ever Happens!!!
This woman is a high school grad and talks like a 10 year old.
If memory serves me, wasn’t a provision inserted in the last shutdown/CR declaring congressional communications could no longer be monitored or investigated without notifying the representative first?
Was the provision to provide cover for this type of behavior?
Like Hillary, congress gets to bleach bit, hammer and wipe with a cloth?
Only these 6 geniuses cooked up the video?
Not hypothetical, huh?
This is standard PSYOP playbook. Everything that has been done: the video and Slotkin’s less than candid responses to Martha Raddatz are all designed to present an image of President Trump as if he is willing to break the law, to use the army or navy to do illegal things, that he cannot be trusted, that he is basically a criminal pretending to be President.
That is the goal of all this nonsense. The Democrat party has ratings in the toilet. Plain and simple. They have nobody worth running for federal office. All they have are party hacks like Newsom and Swalwell. THEY HAVE NO POLICIES THAT ANYONE WANTS. THEY HAVE NO PLANS FOR SOLVING PROBLEMS THAT ANYONE WANTS.
The democrats are running on supporting transgenders, men in women’s sports and bathrooms, they are running on normalizing every sexual perversion ever known to man and some never even known to man, the are running on Communism as the absolute best way of solving problems, they are running on the government being the answer to everything and everyone. They run on hiding how many democrats have been money laundering in Ukraine, people like Obama, Clinton, Kerry, Pelosi, etc. This is who they are. There is nothing they offer that is attractive.
What to do? Make Trump look bad!!!!
Well I think this exercise boomeranged on them, because they have come out looking ridiculous if not seditious.
The Caine Mutiny (1954) – The Good Fight Scene
These 6 may have carefully only said to disobey illegal orders, but most here all know, good and well, that while they were only saying to disobey illegal orders, they were all thinking that they very much wanted the troops to disobey all of President Trump’s orders, so they are hereby found guilty of thought crimes, for which they should all pay the ultimate price..
Welcome to 1984.
Elissa Slotkin organized the creation of this video. Slotkin is CIA. CIA trades in color revolutions and coups to overthrow countries the U.S. government doesn’t like. The intel community is largely hostile and works against President Trump and his agenda. It has its own agenda counter to President Trump’s.
Apparently, you take these 6’s statements at face value.
It’s a lot more than “thought crimes “.
If anyone believes any military individual “goes to her” with legality questions about orders I have a bridge for sale.
This is all spook craft and once a spook always a spook and every one in her video belongs in prison
There are around 1.5 million US military members, and that’s just active duty. It is very plausible that out of that many, a few contacted her.
The US Military has around a thousand Generals/Admirals, so it is even plausible that a few of them contacted her
(Remember, there are likely still many Obama’s appointees left in their ranks)
Why would Generals/Admirals contact her? She said young soldiers.
This person apparently had no problems with whether or not it was illegal for Biden to be shaking down Ukraine for bribes through his son before he’d release taxpayer dollars to Ukraine – she was along on that trip. Zero complaints from this person or her buddies.
So obviously it’s not illegality that they’re after – as usual they’re after POTUS and trying to deflect from the democrat inadequacies and various illegalities. They’re covering up BIG STUFF! Still.
I actually feel dumber having read the transcript of these two airhead leftists.
💯
Had to stop watching. Felt DNA damage impending….
Curious, no???
Slotkin…