Sen. Mark Kelly is doubling down on his – Latest News
Slammed for his main position in Democrats’ disgraceful “Disobey!” video, Sen. Mark Kelly (Ariz.) has gotten on his ethical high horse, citing his many years of honorable service within the US navy — when his central outrage was to prostitute that service in a bid to impugn the sitting president, on the clear risk of encouraging navy mutinies.
The Pentagon has opened a probe of Kelly’s actions: As a Navy retiree receiving important advantages, he’s clearly nonetheless subject to the Uniform Code of Military Justice — and the video could represent a violation of his oaths.
In response, the senator’s blaring out his service report (additionally enjoying for sympathy because the husband of ex-Rep. Gabby Giffords, who suffered lasting, near-fatal wounds in a madman’s 2011 assassination attempt), as if that meant he might do no subsequent fallacious.
Huh? Benedict Arnold was a bona fide hero earlier than changing into our nation’s most notorious traitor.
And, as we’ve famous, the video starring Kelly and 5 of his congressional colleagues plainly implied that President Donald Trump, or his subordinates, was more likely to difficulty unlawful orders (if he hadn’t already) — why else would these veterans be emphasizing to active-duty personnel that they’re obliged to refuse such instructions?
Worse, the spot plainly dangers encouraging troopers, sailors, Marines and/or airmen to disobey legal orders — maybe covertly, as with Chelsea Manning and Reality Winner; maybe worse in, say, the continuing deployment close to Venezuela.
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Crucially, the six can’t establish any such unlawful orders, as a result of there aren’t any.
Hilariously, Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.) turned to Hollywood for assist, stammering: “If you look at popular culture, if you watch ‘A Few Good Men,’ we have plenty of examples . . . where people were told to follow illegal orders.”
It’s a great flick, however purely imaginary — but it’s the best she might come up with after she appeared to be pointing to a very present hazard within the “disobey” video.
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Back to Kelly: After Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth rightly fumed that the spot’s “foolish screed sows doubt and confusion,” Kelly blustered that he gained’t “be silenced by bullies who care more about their own power than protecting the Constitution.”
Again, sowing confusion was the video’s clear objective, even when it primarily aimed to scare civilians who don’t know how rigorously the fashionable navy educates its own about what constitutes unlawful orders, and so are susceptible to darkish insinuations from veterans like Kelly.
Which means the senator is the one who’s being feckless about defending the Constitution right here.
We’re not optimistic a Pentagon investigation is the best course of motion in countering Kelly & Co.’s unbecoming conduct; he’s actually making an attempt to use that probe to play the martyr.
But by citing his service report to fake that chopping that spot was the motion of a hero, not a scoundrel, Kelly is doubling down on the unique offense.
It was a low, passive-aggressive smear, dishonoring the spirit of his oath of service, whether or not or not it violates the letter.
