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Arizona Congressman and Navy SEAL veteran Eli Crane spoke to The Gateway Pundit this week about the Seditious Six and Senator Mark Kelly’s calls for military sedition.
This comes after Mark Kelly and five other Democratic lawmakers, all with credentials in the military and intelligence apparatus, told active duty service members and intelligence officials in a recent video message that they have a “duty” to disobey “illegal” orders from President Trump. However, Trump has not given any illegal orders. This was an attempt to sow doubt and interfere with military operations.
Democratic Senator Elissa Slotkin (MI), the former CIA agent in the conspiracy, even admitted that Trump has not given a single illegal order to members of the military! Still, she threatened service members with thinly veiled warnings, comparing Trump to Adolf Hitler and suggesting they may face tribunals like the Nuremberg Trials. She further pointed to movies like “A Few Good Men” to intimidate military members into thinking twice before they follow this President.
President Trump has described their actions as “traitorous” and signaled that the “military courts” are looking into the crime.
The Department of War later announced that Mark Kelly may be recalled into active duty to undergo court-martial proceedings for misconduct under the Uniform Code of Military Justice. Specifically, Kelly is under investigation for violations of federal laws, including 18 U.S.C. § 2387, which prohibits “actions intended to interfere with the loyalty, morale, or good order and discipline of the armed forces,” the Department said.
Rep. Crane said of the video by the seditious six, “It appears to me, when I look at the definition of sedition, that that’s absolutely what they were doing.”
“They were trying to incite rebellion within the military,” and “they couldn’t say one order that the president had given that was unlawful or illegal,” he added. “The senator might have stepped in it on this one.”
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Crane also responded to Mark Kelly’s recent claims that President Trump is “threatening to kill me.” Any other President would have responded by saying, “of course,” to Kelly’s calls for military sedition, he claimed. “The President of the United States said that two US Senators and four members of the House of Representatives should be arrested, hanged, executed for something we said.”
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“I would like to see a precedent be set to where even, you know, sitting members of Congress and elected officials, you know, don’t feel it appropriate to go out and undermine the chain of command without even, you know, being able to cite one single unlawful order,” he said, expressing hope for a precendent to be set with Mark Kelly.
Crane further slammed the lawmakers, noting that Kelly and his comrades committed a “dangerous” crime by making young men and women second-guess their chain of command, while questioning where these same people were when “individuals were being kicked out because they were forced to take an experimental vaccine.”
If Republican lawmakers had questioned Obama’s drone strikes on innocent civilians in Pakistan, Yemen, and Africa by calling for sedition and refusal of orders, they would have faced “similar outrage,” Crane noted.
Watch the full interview below:
War Secretary Pete Hegseth has come under fire from the Democrats and the fake news media, declaring his strikes on terrorist drug boats “illegal.”
Hegseth responded to the firestorm of “fabricated, inflammatory, and derogatory reporting” on Friday, maintaining that the actions are lawful and align with the stated intention of the strikes to be “lethal, kinetic strikes.”
“Our current operations in the Caribbean are lawful under both U.S. and international law, with all actions in compliance with the law of armed conflict—and approved by the best military and civilian lawyers, up and down the chain of command,” Hegseth said.
As The Gateway Pundit reported, despite these attacks, the US is continuing strikes on drug boats in the Caribbean, executing the 22nd strike on Tuesday and killing, in total, nearly 100 designated foreign terrorist narcotic traffickers.
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WATCH: US VAPORIZES 22nd Venezuelan Drug Boat Amid Democrat Claims of Unlawful Orders
Full interview transcript below:
Conradson: What’s your take on Mark Kelly? Do his calls for disobedience pass muster?
Crane: I don’t think so, Jordan. I think the senator got himself in, you know, hot water. You covered some of it in your opening. You know, it was just so wild and bizarre to many of us that they made that video and couldn’t, you know, cite one illegal order that President Trump had given. And, you know, it appears— I’m not a lawyer, Jordan, but it appears to me, when I look at the definition of sedition, that that’s absolutely what they were doing.
They were trying to incite rebellion within the military. Because they couldn’t list one order that the President had given that was unlawful or illegal when they were pressed on it later, all of them, you know, we’re trying to say, well, we just want to make sure that, you know, they’re aware of what their rules and rights are. And the funny thing about that, Jordan, is as somebody who’s gone through basic training, we all know those rights.
We’re well aware of those rights. We all get educated and trained on those rights. I don’t buy a second, you know, what their story is. They’ve tried to undermine this president at every single turn, and this is just one more example. And I think, you know, the senator might have stepped in it on this one.
Conradson: He really did step in it, especially with now the Department of War’s investigation into it. You served under Obama, sir. What do you think this would look like if, at that time, Republican Congress members, they made the same calls after— and I understand war is messy, you know, mistakes happen— but if they did the same exact thing after Obama was drone striking civilians in Pakistan, Yemen and Africa, what do you think would happen to them?
Crane: I think you would have seen similar outrage, you know, from Democrats and Republicans who know— especially those of us that have served in the military. We understand how important the chain of command is. You know, some of the orders that you get are given so rapidly, so fast when you’re in a combat situation. And to undermine the chain of command and get these 18, 19, 20, 21-year-old men and women, who have stepped up to serve our country, second guessing their chain of command, their leadership, on these ships, whether they’re on the ground, it’s just, it’s dangerous, and that’s why I think you even saw many Democrats come out and, you know, we’re just appalled.
I saw a video that Stephen A. Smith did scorching Senator Kelly over this. I don’t think Stephen A Smith is a conservative, right wing Republican. And it’s just, you know, even many of the Democrat veterans that I’ve talked to were just really appalled by this video that they decided to make. And, you know, we had a saying in the Navy, Jordan, when you play stupid games, you win stupid prizes.
And I can’t tell you how the attorneys at the Department of War are going to choose to handle this, but you know, I would like to see a precedent be set to where even, you know, sitting members of Congress and elected officials, you know, don’t feel it appropriate to go out and undermine the chain of command without even, you know, being able to cite one single unlawful order.
Conradson: I think it should be noted, President Trump said he wants to see a trial for these lawmakers, and he said, if it is sedition, they should be facing death. He didn’t necessarily call for their death, but I want to show you this video. Now, Mark Kelly is crying, the victim, actually claiming that Trump wants to kill him. Your thoughts on that, Congressman Eli Crane?
Crane: Jordan, I would have loved to see this concern for soldiers, airmen, and marines following unlawful orders when many of our military individuals were being kicked out because they were forced to take an experimental vaccine. And I want to point out that you didn’t hear any concern or any videos from the Seditious Six here when it came to that. And you know, this is just completely partisan to me. The other thing that stinks to high heaven, as far as I’m concerned Jordan, is they say, “Well, you know, we’re just reminding the troops that they don’t have to follow unlawful orders.” Really?
Why didn’t you guys make that video under President Biden, you know? Same service, same rules, same Uniform Code of Military Justice. They they didn’t feel it necessary to give reminders then, right? And we all know what this was because we look at some of the, you know, some of the efforts that many of these individuals have put forth before, and you couple that with many of their other statements, saying that, you know, what the president’s doing is unlawful, whether it’s with ICE or whether it’s, you know, targeting these narcoterrorists on their boats, trying to deliver drugs and fentanyl into the US.
And so, like I said, I don’t know what the Department of War is going to do here, but I would love to see a precedent set to where we don’t see this in the future. You know, for the sake of our military men and women in uniform who have to follow orders, and they have to do it in a very time critical manner. We don’t need these young men and women who already have very complex, very dangerous jobs second guessing themselves and second guessing their commanders.
Conradson: And it seems like they’re putting literal terrorists, designated terrorists smuggling drugs into the country, over the American people. We saw the same narrative actually play out when President Trump killed Qasem Soleimani back in 2020. They were crying war crime, they were calling Trump a war criminal. And the question I have is, should the American people feel really any sympathy for terrorists?
Crane: No, I don’t believe that they should. And like I said, these guys have tried to undermine the president at every single turn. This is just one more indicator of it. But, you know, because of the UCMJ, I do believe there’s a chance, and I don’t get my hopes up here in Washington, DC, very often, but I do believe that there’s a chance for a precedent to be set to where, you know, this type of thing won’t happen again.
Conradson: I just want to get also your thoughts on the strikes. I know SEAL Team Six is assisting in these operations. I want to hear from you as a Navy Seal, is this the right way to go and way to go about these people that are actively trying to invade our country and bring poisons to our country and kill American citizens? And especially with you being a representative from the great state of Arizona? I mean, we don’t have an ocean, but this problem is the same issue that we’ve seen in Arizona. It’s just coming by sea, not land.
Crane: Well, I do like the fact that the administration is taking seriously, you know, the number one cause of death here in this country annually when it comes to bad actors and criminals, and that is bringing in fentanyl and all the other drugs that they bring in. I’m glad that they’re taking it very seriously. And because they’re taking it seriously, I know that there are heads of state around the world, especially in the southern hemisphere, that are taking it a lot more seriously as well.
And so, I haven’t been in the meetings in the Pentagon and looking at the different plans that they presented to the President and his, you know, his war cabinet on how they were going to prosecute these targets. But, you know, I do have faith in the people there that they took a look at the problem, took a look at, you know, the options that they had available to them, and they’re doing the best with what they’ve got.
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