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Defense Secretary Threatens Senator Amid Controversial Military Orders

12/9/2025

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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Fox News personality, shifted from advocating that troops resist unlawful orders to threatening Senator Mark Kelly with court-martial.
This follows a wave of National Guard deployments and extrajudicial killings of alleged drug smugglers.
U.S. President Donald Trump labeled dissenting lawmakers as traitors and called for punishment.
Attorney General Pam Bondi states that military members must ignore unlawful orders, and Senator Elissa Slotkin argues action intimidates Congress.

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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Fox News personality, shifted from advocating that troops resist unlawful orders to threatening Senator Mark Kelly with court-martial.
This follows a wave of National Guard deployments and extrajudicial killings of alleged drug smugglers.
U.S. President Donald Trump labeled dissenting lawmakers as traitors and called for punishment.
Attorney General Pam Bondi states that military members must ignore unlawful orders, and Senator Elissa Slotkin argues action intimidates Congress.