Democratic Senator Appears to Threaten Military Amid Mark Kelly Investigation: ‘There Will Be Consequences’

One wonders: Have the Democrats thought this through? Do they have an endgame?

Either way, their reckless rhetoric can only lead to a dark place — as it has already.

Monday on CNN’s “The Arena with Kasie Hunt,” Democratic Sen. Ruben Gallego of Arizona appeared to threaten “consequences” for military service members who take part in a potential court-martial of his colleague, Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly of Arizona.

In a clip posted to the social media platform X, host Kasie Hunt asked Gallego about his “level of trust in the U.S. military justice system,” to which the senator, with shocking brazenness, replied that service members need to remember that President Donald Trump will not be around to protect them forever.

“I trust them, actually, a lot,” Gallego began.

That sounded like a compliment, of course. But if you listen closely, you will hear the Democrats’ seditious anti-Trump message embedded in the senator’s response.

“These are professionals,” Gallego said moments later. ‘They are also swearing to the Constitution of the United States. They know that there will be fallout and consequences if they are used in a hard way to basically railroad someone like Senator Kelly, ’cause Donald Trump’s gonna be gone in a couple years.”

What a slimy way to insinuate that Trump either has or will give orders at odds with the Constitution.

“And if you’re part of the military that’s going after sitting senators, sitting members of Congress, and part of the weaponization of government,” Gallego continued, “there will be consequences, without a doubt.”

Incredibly, Gallego then predicted that officers who participate in a potential Kelly tribunal would be “looking over their shoulders because they know that Donald Trump will be gone and they will not have that protection there, and they’re gonna have to do the safest thing possible, which is follow the Constitution of the United States, and you’ll be fine.”

Again, note the deliberate distinction drawn between Trump and the Constitution.

Last week, Kelly joined five other elected Democrats in posting an outrageous and likely seditious video. In that video, the six Democrats urged intelligence professionals and military service members to ignore “illegal” orders from Trump.

Of course, the Seditious Six identified no such orders. Thus, anyone who has lived through the grand anti-Trump conspiracy of the last 10 years knows what they intended. Those Democrats had no purpose but to cast the duly elected commander in chief as illegitimate.

And those ghouls — now joined by Gallego — had the gall to talk about the Constitution.

Meanwhile, Trump and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth reacted with an appropriate mixture of alarm and outrage.

How, then, can we make sense of the Democrats’ tactics here?

First, Democrats’ Trump-related assertions seem so divorced from reality that those who have followed the president closely for years often have no idea where or how to begin refuting them.

For starters, Trump has now served as president for nearly five years total. One hesitates to criticize a man of undeniable courage who has beaten back every deep-state effort to eliminate him, but one must concede nonetheless that in that time, Trump has largely allowed himself to be neutralized by neocon plants (see: Pence, Mike, and Pompeo, Mike) and diabolical judges usurping authority. If anything, many Trump supporters undoubtedly regard the president’s executive stewardship as too weak.

Still, Democrats have conjured a bugbear, and they cling to it with a tenacity that defies reason. We have seen them do it many times.

For instance, we now know that former President Barack Obama’s administration engaged in what Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard called a “treasonous conspiracy” when it manufactured intelligence designed to prop up the 2016 Russia collusion hoax.

We also know that Democrat-aligned media outlets regularly doctored videos in an effort to harm Trump. The worst of those edits made it appear that Trump encouraged the Capitol incursion of Jan. 6, 2021.

But rank-and-file Democrats believe these hoaxes and many others. Why else would they march in silly “No Kings” rallies?

It is true, of course, that liberals, particularly young women, disproportionately suffer from mental illness. One therapist, in fact, recently characterized Trump Derangement Syndrome as “the defining pathology of our time.”

And that brings us back to the Seditious Six and their endgame. What could they have hoped to achieve with this video? And what did Gallego hope to achieve by threatening military service members?

The most plausible answer lies in their understanding of their own base. Rank-and-file Democrats, radicalized by propaganda, have demanded violence. When it actually occurred, as in the Sept. 10 assassination of conservative Christian icon Charlie Kirk, thousands of leftists celebrated with demonic glee.

Thus, elected Democrats have to know that they risk activating a lone wolf in the military. Are they, in fact, counting on it? Their behavior demands an answer to that once-unthinkable question.

Meanwhile, it remains to be seen how the president responds to the latest challenge from Gallego. Might these Democrats, in an act filled with supreme irony, finally call into existence the Trump of their dark and deranged fantasies?

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Michael Schwarz holds a Ph.D. in History and has taught at multiple colleges and universities. He has published one book and numerous essays on Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and the Early U.S. Republic. He loves dogs, baseball, and freedom. After meandering spiritually through most of early adulthood, he has rediscovered his faith in midlife and is eager to continue learning about it from the great Christian thinkers.

Michael Schwarz holds a Ph.D. in History and has taught at multiple colleges and universities. He has published one book and numerous essays on Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and the Early U.S. Republic. He loves dogs, baseball, and freedom. After meandering spiritually through most of early adulthood, he has rediscovered his faith in midlife and is eager to continue learning about it from the great Christian thinkers.

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