Mark Kelly Tears Into ‘Wannabe Dictator’ Trump After DOJ Failure To Indict Him | EUROtoday

MS NOW host Lawrence O’Donnell on Wednesday highlighted President Donald Trump’s newest failure “to silence” his critics after a federal grand jury in Washington, D.C., refused a Department of Justice request to indict six Democratic members of Congress.

The “Last Word” host welcomed a triumphant however involved Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.), who, alongside 5 of his friends, urged U.S. service members in a video final 12 months to “refuse illegal orders.” Trump prompt on the time that the transfer was “seditious” and “punishable by DEATH!”

“This just means follow the law,” Kelly stated. “But Donald Trump and people around him don’t like when somebody presents something that he doesn’t agree with. He thinks he should be allowed to do and give whatever order he wants because he’s a wannabe dictator.”

The DOJ sought indictments towards Kelly and his colleagues — Sen. Elissa Slotkin (Mich.) and Reps. Chris Deluzio (Pa.), Maggie Goodlander (N.H.), Chrissy Houlahan (Pa.) and Jason Crow (Colo.) — who had merely echoed the Uniform Code of Military Justice of their video.

Article 92 states service members shall be punished in the event that they fail to obey “any lawful” order.

Kelly advised O’Donnell that he and his friends “had a little bit of a heads up” concerning the potential indictments — and that Trump, U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi and U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro noticed jail or jail time for the six Democrats because the “goal.”

Kelly additional revealed that he had simply pulled as much as his dwelling when he first heard the information.

He stated, “I was on the phone with my chief of staff when she got the word from our attorney that they tried to do this. But … a couple dozen of U.S. citizens seemed to understand the Constitution much better than anybody in this administration does and refused to indict us.”

O’Donnell famous with seeming pleasure that “just citizens reporting for jury duty” declined the indictment.

“Yeah, this time,” Kelly replied. “We’ll see if they keep pressing here. They’ve got a reputation. This president doesn’t like to lose, though he seems to have made a habit of it lately, especially as he uses his justice system as a weapon against people that he disagrees with.”

The senator continued, “He started out with hanging us. He wanted us hanged. Then he said executed. Now we’re in the prosecutorial phase of this. I also have a case with the Navy. They’re trying to demote me and take away some of my pension after 25 years.”

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth introduced plans final month to downgrade Kelly’s retired U.S. Navy captain rank and pension over his supposedly “seditious statements.” Kelly subsequently sued the secretary of protection, noting that Hegseth as soon as agreed with the message within the video.

As he has incessantly carried out in current weeks, Kelly added a observe of unity on Wednesday.

“But like we said in that press conference today, this isn’t about just the two of us,” he stated, referring to a press convention he held with Slotkin earlier within the day. “This is about 350 million Americans who this president will go after and try to silence if he doesn’t like what comes out of their mouths — and this is wrong, and it’s un-American.”

He concluded, “So, for that reason, we’re in it to the end.”