In DC, Still Can’t Find a Few Good Democratic Men…or Women

Welcome to Day Six of the latest stupid and dangerous stunt pulled by Capitol Hill Democrats. I say Day Six, but for all intents and purposes, when you add the six days of Code Redgate to the 43 days of the government shutdown orchestrated by the very same Democrats in Washington, you’re nearing 50 days of rhetorical and political warfare on America’s military in order to weaken President Donald Trump. 

Michigan Senator Elissa Slotkin was the first of six members of both chambers with military experience to voice their part in a 90-second video warning rank and file military servicemembers not to obey illegal orders. Joining Slotkin was Arizona Senator Mark Kelly, House Representatives Jason Crow of Colorado, Maggie Goodlander of a rented apartment in New Hampshire she had to lease after she won a carpetbagger campaign, and Chris Deluzio and Chrissy Houlihan, both from Pennsylvania. It’s a recklessly dangerous and stupid video, and one that should cost all six their seats in office if the country weren’t so polarized right now. In case you missed the triggering video, here it is.

We want to speak directly to members of the Military and the Intelligence Community.

The American people need you to stand up for our laws and our Constitution.

Don’t give up the ship. pic.twitter.com/N8lW0EpQ7r

— Sen. Elissa Slotkin (@SenatorSlotkin) November 18, 2025

In short, it’s wildly absurd, and about the dumbest presentation Democrats have offered since…Chuck Schumer’s defense of the government shutdown. There have been no illegal orders given. None. Every court challenge that has been fully adjudicated with respect to any military activities understaken by this commander-in-chief has resulted in Trump’s favor. 

So why is this still a story almost a week later when it’s so obviously a political stunt timed to drop after the Epstein Files stunt ran out of gas last week? Three reasons

1. Resistance media was on board with this story because it helped them turn the page from the shutdown and Epstein, and this media class in the Beltway-Manhattan Bubble has never met a Russiagate-esque smear job they didn’t love to promote,.

2. Donald Trump, thus far fairly disciplined in his social media presence this term compared to his first stint in office, nevertheless threw a spoke and poured gasoline all over this fire by referring to those in the video as the ‘Seditious Six.’ It gave a story that should have been a 1-2 day stunt enough oxygen to continue for the foreseeable future, or until the next Trump-hating shiny object emerges.

3. Democrats are now portraying themselves as victims of potential right-wing violence. 

Media’s role in the latest anti-Trump psyop was pretty represensible for the first few days, becasue with a story like this, there’s really only one question to ask any of the six in the video. It’s Journalism 101. If you are collecting a paycheck as a reporter or journalist, especially one on the cable outlets, there is only one question: What orders are being given to the troops that they should not be obeying? That’s it. That’s the entirety of the question set for the interview of any of the six. 

Jake Tapper, who is still on extended holiday from committing journalism, at least when Democrats are involved, brought on Maggie Goodlander, who is emerging as the ringleader of this band of malicious misfits. Could he be bothered to ask her what her evidence was for making this video? No. Not one question asked her directly what illegal order or orders were given. Instead, this is what we got. 

Insurrectionist Maggie Goodlander’s husband, Russiagate Conspiracy architect Jake Sullivan, arranged for her to see his co-conspirator Jake Tapper. pic.twitter.com/6BNpFcJ9xa

— Svetlana Lokhova (@RealSLokhova) November 21, 2025

Goodlander is not just an innocent rube here, being caught up in the latest Trump gotcha video. She is married to Jake Sullivan, Hillary Clinton’s bagman and Joe Biden’s National Security Advisor. If you want to know how Russiagate was even remotely possible and taken seriously when it was created out of whole cloth, Sullivan was right there in the middle of the fiction writing. As for Mrs. Sullivan, she clerked for former Attorney General Merrick Garland when he was a D.C. Appellate Court judge. She also has been fighting back against campaign financial disclosures, which are bizarre to say the least. Mr. and Mrs. Sullivan have worked together on bull excrement scandals before, and this time seems no different.

This entire stunt reeks of a Sullivan-Clinton-Biden-Obama dirty trick. It’s coming on the heels of the military being screwed out of paychecks for almost two months, and the left-wing establishment would love nothing more than to drive a wedge between Donald Trump and the U.S. military, which thus far loves the actions and decisions of this administration. 

A day later, Wolf Blitzer on the same network got a little closer to the only salient question, but still couldn’t get there, and yet Goodlander still struggled on the hook. 

WATCH: New Hampshire Democrat Maggie Goodlander BRUTALLY struggles to answer whether members of the military have told her they have been given unlawful orders.

GOODLANDER: “Well… you know… what I’d say is…the, the…” pic.twitter.com/S6K31c9rAK

— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) November 21, 2025

On the main five Sunday shows, Goodlander didn’t appear. But she did appear on MS-Something Timely with Alex Witt, about as friendly an outlet as she’s going to get outside of CNN. Except Witt, to her great credit, finally asked her the only real question. And Mrs. Sullivan lapsed into a Kamala Harris word salad.

Rep. Maggie Goodlander (D-NH) is asked to her face what illegal orders she wants the US Military to disobey.

She refuses to answer. She doesn’t even say what she thinks may have been illegal.

Goodlander is terrified because she’s committed sedition.pic.twitter.com/2j0SYLo6b8 https://t.co/IWJUOcHCQe

— Paul A. Szypula 🇺🇸 (@Bubblebathgirl) November 23, 2025

You see, of course, why if the real question is asked to any of the six, the story ends, right? They can’t name an illegal order, because there has been no illegal order given. What you’re left with then is a video meant to insinuate there has been, and give military servicemembers doing their jobs and obeying lawful orders pause, because they might be politically prosecuted under a Democratic administration. 

Is it sedition? No. Sedition includes a conspiracy to overthrow the government. These six just want to throw wrenches at Trump any way possible, not overthrow it. If it’s the President’s desire to end this controversy and keep others from pulling a stunt like this in the future, he’s creating the opposite effect. Democrats since January 20th have been looking for a part of Trump’s skin to crawl under and get him sidetracked. Thus far, Chief of Staff Susie Wiles has been a positive influence in keeping everyone in the administration rowing the boat in the same direction. This, however, isn’t helping. 

🚨 BREAKING: President Trump just posted a video of the 6 Congressional Democrats BEHIND BARS after they fomented sedition from the military and CIA

Hope you’re watching, AG Bondi!

MAKE IT HAPPEN. Or seditious behavior will GROW in the United States. pic.twitter.com/zVe7zV0Yiq

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) November 24, 2025

Senator Slotkin, who appeared on ABC’s This Week with Martha Raddatz, gets the gold for the wildest spin when confronted with the reality that there’s no there there to the illegal orders video. 

Slotkin is using an accusation in former Defense Secretary Mark Esper’s 2022 memoir that Donald Trump allegedly told him to order the military to shoot protesters in the legs. There were other people in the room, and there are plenty of people in the chain of command who would be able to corroborate that claim. To date, exactly zero have. It’s Esper, who hates Trump, and his word versus the rest of the military serving during Trump’s first term. Even after Raddatz pushed back that there’s no corroboration to that allegation, Slotkin is still holding onto it as though it’s the Gospel truth. 

But then, Slotkin takes it one step further. Remember, the same Washington, D.C. Democrats have been warning ICE agents doing their job enforcing the immigration laws of the United States that when Democrats do regain power, those agents face criminal prosecutions. The threats aren’t just implicit; they’re very real. But to military servicemembers, Slotkin is speaking very directly to them, too. Keep up what you’re doing, enforcing Trump’s legal orders, and you’ll face your own Nuremberg trials once we get voted back in. 

Democrats, because of Trump’s social media comments, are complaining about threats they’re receiving now that the Sedition rhetoric has been invoked, but the actual threats being issued, to anyone willing to see them, are to those wearing the uniform and obeying the chain of command from the commander-in-chief down. 

Deranged.

Senator Slotkin (D-MI) says no unlawful military orders have been given, yet goes on to say US service members could be prosecuted like Nazi war criminals at Nuremberg:

“Go back to Nuremberg: ‘Well, they told me to do it’ is not an excuse… People were prosecuted.” pic.twitter.com/GLZuQc4Aca

— Nathan Brand (@NathanBrandWA) November 23, 2025

Raddatz got down to the one question to Slotkin that matters. Her answer? “To my knowledge, I’m not aware of things that are illegal.” Oh? So there’s no predicate for the video at all then? 

Slotkin said, “No, comma, but…” Her ‘but’ shifted back to Nuremberg and A Few Good Men, the Tom Cruise/Jack Nicholson movie about the Code Red, and whether the two Marines should have followed what they should have known was an illegal order. That’s Slotkin’s case for the video. You want Slotkin on that wall. You need Slotkin on that wall. She wants “her” truth, even though she can’t handle the actual truth, which is that Trump has acted legally as commander-in-chief. In her world, as soon as Democrats come to power, they will retroactively make anything Trump did illegal, and go prosecute anyone who followed out what they should have known in the future Democrats would have a problem with. That’s what is so dangerous about the video the six made. 

On Face the Nation, Margaret Brennan displayed a case of the Journalistic Bends. She landed two of the six from the video in question – Mark Kelly and Jason Crow, and treated them wholly differently from each other in the span of 20 minutes. In the case of Kelly, whom she obviously likes, he got a total pass. 

WATCH: CBS’s Margaret Brennan offers NO PUSHBACK to Sen. Mark Kelly’s gaslighting about Trump allegedly ordering protesters be shot in the legs as the basis for the “seditious” video, pivots straight to Ukraine pic.twitter.com/fMNqsb3dTa

— Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) November 23, 2025

The laziest question any interviewer can ask a book author is, ‘So why’d you write the book?’ The book, if the interviewer did their due diligence by reading before the interview, should purportedly answer that question at length. This question by Brennan was just as lazy. “Why’d you make the video?” It was a softball on a tee, and she got out of the way for a minute-plus and let Kelly have his say. Once he was done, she moved on to Ukraine without a single follow-up. No pushback whatsoever. 

A few moments later, Rep. Crow from Colorado was up, and Brennan apparently doesn’t have the same cozy relationship she has with Kelly. 

CBS: “How do you respond to the allegations…from your colleagues, fellow veterans that what you put out there is weakening and corrosive?”

CROW: “They know better. We were very clear in the video that what we are talking about is unlawful orders.”

CBS: “Specifically what?’… pic.twitter.com/ovbwpkJHt1

— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) November 23, 2025

Brennan asked him directly what the illegal orders were, and when he came up with his list, she immediately pushed back, saying none of those had been ruled as illegal. So she knows. She didn’t have to consult her notes. She knows the story is crap, yet she let Kelly advance it for inexplicable reasons. 

I’ll leave you with this. Amy Klobuchar, who is regarded to be the brain trust for the Democrats in the Senate should Chuck Schumer lose his position of leader, was on Meet the Press with Kristen Welker. Welker asked her the question: What are the illegal orders? This is what Klobuchar offered. 

Welker: “Do you know what the specific illegal acts are that your Democratic colleagues were referring to?”

Klobuchar: “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… https://t.co/viCkHoAxMJ pic.twitter.com/Qht2S09sNg

— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) November 23, 2025

I’ve listened to that answer three times now in an attempt to provide cogent analysis for my rebuttal. I got nothing. I don’t know where Klobuchar’s answer starts, and where Edie Brickell and the New Bohemians ends. 

I’m not aware of too many things.
I know what I know, if you know what I mean.

My friendly advice to the White House? Op-Dray the edition-say, and call it what it is – stupid, and a threat to the military. Both Trump and Vice-President Vance should remind voters who are in service to this country, or have members of their family wearing the uniform, that under this administration, from the President down through the chain of command, they have the backs of the military. If Democrats get elected, not only will they not pay you for months on end without losing a wink of sleep and treat you like a political pawn, they’ll put you on trial for following orders.

Republicans: Use the words and threats of the Democrats against them with the very people to whom those threats were made. And then do it again and again. 

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