Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) on Monday said he will not be intimidated by the Pentagon’s investigation into “serious allegations of misconduct” against him after he called for U.S. military service members to disobey any illegal orders handed down by the Trump administration.
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth earlier in the day announced the Pentagon would conduct a “thorough review” of allegations against the Arizona senator, who was one of six Democratic lawmakers who appeared in a video that infuriated the Trump administration.
Kelly, a retired Navy captain, pointed to his lengthy military career and disputed that he did anything to merit the review.
Unfortunately yes. In another post someone asked “what’s to stop Trump bombing Chicago?”. The only real answer is American service members all the way down the chain of command disobeying the blatantly illegal order to bomb Chicago.
At the end of it all, political power really rests in who has the biggest stick, and the biggest stick in the world is the US military.
If the military is beholden to Trump, then he has his kingship, if they honor their oath to the constitution, he doesn’t.