Trump initially menaced the video makers with speak of execution, and now the Defense Department has threatened to activate Kelly, a former Navy pilot and astronaut, and court-martial him.
“I’m glad that the U.S. military is now investigating this guy Kelly because this is what we expect from Donald Trump 2.0,” Watters mentioned on Fox News’ “The Five” panel. “You can’t have the deep state interfering with a duly elected presidency and get away with it. You gotta draw the line in the sand, and you have to make examples out of people.”
Deep state? Make examples of?
Both sounded alarmingly acquainted to some observers on X.
“When power starts calling dissent ‘an example,’ it isn’t enforcing order — it’s rehearsing tyranny,” one other wrote.
Kennedy, the previous MTV VJ turned political commentator who was a panelist on the present, piled on to Watters’ remarks.
“I think that Sen. Kelly might have violated the FAFO doctrine, and he’s gonna find out the hard way that there unfortunately are consequences,” she mentioned, referring to the acronym for “fuck around, find out.”
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