GOP Senate Majority Whip Unloads On Dem 'Illegal Order' Complainers

Posted • November 23, 2025: On the most recent Fox News Sunday Morning Futures, Senate Majority Whip John Barrasso (R-WY) appeared with host Maria Bartiromo to discuss, among other topics, recent messages from prominent Democrats (one who is former CIA) advising our military members of their obligation to refuse illegal orders. These statements were clearly aimed at the Trump administration's use of troops, mostly National Guard, to help with crime crackdowns in several major cities. As they so often do, the Democrat complainers here have taken a kernel of truth and surrounded it with a bushel of horse squeeze. It is true that American service members have not only the right but the obligation to refuse to carry out illegal orders. Service members are taught that in initial entry training.

But one of these Democrats, Senator Elissa Slotkin (D-MI), who worked for the CIA of all things - that being a community that no one ever really leaves - gave a tacit admission in an appearance on ABC news that the president has not issued any illegal orders. She then proceeded to bizarrely bring up incidents from the Nuremberg trials and, of all things, a fictional movie. —— After admitting President Trump hasn't issued any illegal orders, Elissa Slotkin bizarrely brings up the Nuremberg trials and "A Few Good Men" to try and justify Democrats' insurrectionist video. —— That's what they're going with? Seriously? Of course, there may well be a more serious problem here. It would take a long, involved legal process to determine, a process nobody seems anxious to start and which in all probability will never happen, but it seems like these statements from these Democrat senators could be seen as an incitement to mutiny. And if any significant number of service members start refusing lawful orders, which are the only orders they have received, then this could get very serious indeed. (…)

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