By Gabe WhisnantShareNewsweek is a Trust Project memberOn Friday, President Donald Trump downplayed remarks he made Thursday, accusing a half dozen Democratic lawmakers of sedition for advising members of the military that they do not have to follow illegal orders.
Trump wrote in a post to Truth Social on Thursday that those lawmakers engaged in “SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR, punishable by DEATH!” He wrote, “This is really bad, and Dangerous to our Country. Their words cannot be allowed to stand. SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR FROM TRAITORS!!! LOCK THEM UP??? President DJT.”
In an appearance Friday morning on Fox News Radio with Brian Kilmeade, Trump responded to a question about his remarks, in part, "I'm not threating death, but I think they're in serious trouble. In the old days, it was death. I'm not threating them, but I think they're in serious trouble. I would say they're in serious trouble."
He added, "But in the old days, if you said a thing like that, that was punishable by death. What they said is, I mean, I don't know about the modern day things, because, you know, modern day is a lot softer."
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