Spin Cycle: Democrats Calling For An Insurrection Wasn’t A Problem Until Trump Didn’t Like It

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Several elected Democrats got together to make a video last week in which they openly encouraged members of the United States military to take matters into their own hands and subvert their Commander in Chief – but the real problem, as far as legacy media outlets are concerned, is that President Donald Trump didn’t take it quietly.

For those who don’t spend their Sunday mornings glued to the television — and their Sunday afternoons attempting to dig through a week’s worth of network and cable news media spin — The Daily Wire has compiled a short summary of what you may have missed.

The media personalities and members of Congress who appeared across Sunday morning’s political talk shows spent the majority of their time discussing Trump’s reaction to a video that featured Democrats — who had previously served in either the military or the intelligence community — wanting current service members that they could, and should, disobey any order from Trump that was “unlawful.” And although the video was light on specifics, it was heavy on the obvious insinuation that Trump either had or would issue such an order.

Trump’s response to the video was entirely predictable: he lashed out via his Truth Social platform, and the Democrats highlighted his reaction as proof that he might do exactly as they’d warned.

This is really bad, and Dangerous to our Country. Their words cannot be allowed to stand. SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR FROM TRAITORS!!! LOCK THEM UP??? SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR, punishable by DEATH!

Sens. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) and Mark Kelly (D-AZ), along with Reps. Chris Deluzio (D-PA), Chrissy Houlahan (D-PA), Maggie Goodlander (D-NH), and Jason Crow (D-CO), appeared in the video — and several of them made the rounds on Sunday morning to talk about Trump’s reaction.

On ABC’s “This Week,” host Martha Raddatz began with the fact that Slotkin had been on the receiving end of death threats — and she immediately interpreted that as a reaction to Trump’s social media posts rather than to Slotkin’s participation in a video that, by multiple accounts, actively encouraged insurrection.

When pressed, Slotkin did ultimately concede that Trump had not given an illegal order that she knew of — yet — but she maintained the warning was justified because the Trump administration’s actions against narco-terrorists had involved some degree of “legal gymnastics.”

Raddatz pointed to a concern voiced by Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC), who argued that making the video had been unwise: “You owe that to the men and women of the military to be specific about what you’re talking about … What theses 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.”

“It makes me incredibly nervous that we’re about to see people in law enforcement … get nervous, get stressed, shoot at American civilians,” Slotkin pushed back.

Rep. Jason Crow (D-CO), an Army Ranger veteran, also got death threats and blamed President Trump on the CBS News Sunday morning staple “Face the Nation”: “It’s very disturbing stuff. When you have the President of the United States threatening to execute and to hang and to arrest using this rhetoric, people listen to it.”

Crow defended the video by suggesting that even if an illegal order were to be issued, members of the military might not be ready to defy the Commander in Chief if Democrats did not take decisive action to groom them ahead of time.

“If we wait until the moment that he gives a manifestly unlawful order to a young soldier, then we have failed them. We have to start that conversation now and get people thinking about the distinction, which is what we did,” he explained.

Senator Mark Kelly (D-AZ) ignored the weight of his words — and the words of the others on the video — and claimed that Trump’s words attacking them carried such “weight” that he should hold his tongue.

“His words carry tremendous weight, more so than anybody else in the country, and he should know that,” Kelly said, also suggesting that Trump’s reaction to the video was the main concern.

Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) also pointed the finger at Trump, saying his words were, “reckless, inappropriate, irresponsible.”

On NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Kristen Welker pressed Senator Amy Kobuchar (D-MN) — who was not a part of the video — on whether or not she knew of a specific “illegal” order.

Klobuchar’s reply was vague: “If [a National Guard] commander were to tell [troops], hey, go out on the streets and do this and that, that’s not following the order that is in law. So I just use that example.”



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