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Senator whose wife was shot fears for safety after Trump sedition accusation

Senator Mark Kelly – whose wife, Gabrielle Giffords, narrowly survived an attempted assassination while she was in Congress in 2011 – says he is worried about “increased threats” to his family’s safety after Donald Trump accused him and other Democratic lawmakers of “SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR, punishable by DEATH”.

“This kind of language is dangerous, and it’s wrong,” Kelly said on Friday on MS NOW’s Morning Joe, with political violence one of the top topics in the US’s public discourse. He continued: “I’m not going to get into my specific security arrangements, but it would be irresponsible for me not to consider that [Trump’s] words result in increased threats to myself, even to my staff, to my family.

“It would be a rather irresponsible thing for us not to consider this seriously.”

The Arizona senator’s remarks came after he appeared in a video on Tuesday alongside five other federal Democratic lawmakers who have previously served in the military or in intelligence roles – and who all told active US service members that they should refuse illegal orders.

“Our laws are clear,” the senators and US House members in question say in the video. “You can refuse illegal orders. You must refuse illegal orders. No one has to carry out orders that violate the law or our constitution.”

Can Mark name any illegal orders Trump and his people have given?

Fellow video crazy Goodlander couldn’t

He also referred to the two assassination attempts Trump survived while successfully running for a second presidency in 2024. Those attempts on Trump’s life preceded the firebombing of the official residence of the Pennsylvania governor, Josh Shapiro, the fatal shooting of the former Minnesota state house speaker Melissa Hortman and the slaying of the conservative political activist Charlie Kirk – all between April and September.

“My family has suffered from political violence,” Kelly said on Morning Joe. “My wife … was nearly assassinated – shot in the head at a political event. We have rising political violence in this country, even the president – two assassination attempts. He should understand that.”

All those shootings, including the one on his wife, were committed by Democrats. Too bad Joe didn’t ask Mark to name an illegal order Trump has given to the military. Thing is, you’ll get some young, dumb Democrat in the military refusing an order, failing to follow the chain of command, who will get in some level of serious trouble, and Mark, Goodlander, and the others involved will suffer no consequences.