‘You, Sir, Are A Coward’: Senate Dem Torches Hegseth Over Newly Announced Investigation | EUROtoday

Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.) is standing up for his colleague Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.), whom the Pentagon is investigating over alleged breaches of army regulation after he and 5 fellow Democratic veterans urged energetic service members to not obey illegal orders.

“Mark Kelly is a patriot,” Gallego stated in a self-recorded video Monday on Instagram.

He continued, “There’s no reason why they’re going after him. He was doing his duty and just reminding people about their rights as service members. And [Defense] Secretary [Pete] Hegseth, all these guys, fuck you guys. You’re not going to be able to scare us.”

Gallego appeared later that day on CNN to debate the matter on “The Arena with Kasie Hunt,” whose host requested what he would say on to Hegseth if the outraged senator had the prospect. Gallego, a former U.S. Marine who served in Iraq, as soon as once more spoke freely.

“I think, No. 1, you will never, ever, ever even be half the man that Sen. Kelly is,” Gallego stated instantly into the digital camera Monday. “You, sir, are a coward, and the fact that you are following this order from the president shows how big of a coward you are.”

He continued, “And I can’t wait till you no longer are the Secretary of Defense.”

Kelly had reminded army members in a video final week, alongside Reps. Chris Deluzio (D-Pa.), Maggie Goodlander (D-N.H.), Chrissy Houlahan (D-Pa.) and Jason Crow (D-Colo.) and Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.), that “no one has to carry out orders that violate the law.”

Trump decried this on social media as “SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR, punishable by DEATH!”

The Defense Department introduced “a thorough review” Monday into Kelly’s participation. Hegseth, who’s at the moment shepherding the company’s rebrand into the “Department of War,” then insulted Kelly from his personal private account on X, previously Twitter, the very subsequent day.

Gallego reminded Hunt that the six Democrats had merely echoed the army’s personal official code in noting solely lawful orders should be executed, and stated the Trump administration is “trying to intimidate” members of Congress to distract from their very own failures.

He cited the approaching launch of recordsdata on late little one intercourse predator Jeffrey Epstein and the dearth of a Republican well being care plan as examples. When requested why the polarizing video message was wanted, Gallego stated Americans are “seeing things that aren’t very normal.”

“You have the Marines who are walking around Los Angeles, you have National Guardsmen coming from different states into other states,” he stated. “You have a politicization of the military that has never been seen before until this president has done it.”

Gallego continued, “And let’s not forget the fact that they’re droning and killing people outside the coast of Venezuela without declaring war and/or giving us enough information for us to make a determination if they’re even justified attacks.”

The Trump administration has engaged in a collection of U.S. army strikes in opposition to suspected drug smugglers and their boats in Pacific and Caribbean waters since early September, killing greater than 70 folks with out due course of or congressional authorization.

Gallego on Monday torched the Pentagon on X, writing: “Fuck you and your investigation.”