GOP Senate Majority Whip Unloads on Dem unlawful

On the most latest Fox News Sunday Morning Futures, Senate Majority Whip John Barrasso (R-WY) appeared with host Maria Bartiromo to talk about, among other topics, latest messages from distinguished Democrats (one who is former CIA) advising our navy members of their obligation to refuse unlawful orders. These statements have been clearly aimed at the Trump administration’s use of troops, largely National Guard, to help with crime crackdowns in a number of major cities.

Today, completely on @SundayFutures with @MariaBartiromo , Senate Majority Whip John Barrasso @SenJohnBarrasso spoke about Democratic lawmakers urging U.S. servicemembers to refuse unlawful orders.@FoxNews pic.twitter.com/YF5s1Ed5T4

— SundayMorningFutures (@SundayFutures) November 23, 2025

On this subject, Maria Bartiromo requested the senator:

What is your response to your colleagues on the left, telling U.S. navy members to ignore President Trump’s directive?

Senator Barrasso:

Well, what they’re doing is unsuitable, and I consider it is harmful. Maria, they’ve no proper to inform members of the navy to disobey – we’re speaking about lively responsibility navy – to disobey orders from their commanding officers. That’s the way in which the navy works. And it is up to the Supreme Court to resolve what’s constitutional, not six Democrats on social media. I believe the president is totally proper to be requiring and speaking about legal duty and then being held accountable. These are the same Democrats who have been doing all the things they will for the last ten months to undermine President Trump, undermine the Republican get together and our efforts, every one of them voted to raise taxes by $4 trillion, every one of them voted for the shutdown, and saved our nation shut down and brought on vital pain to the American people.

There are a few issues to unpack right here.

As they so often do, the Democrat complainers right here have taken a kernel of fact and surrounded it with a bushel of horse squeeze. It is true that American service members haven’t only the correct but the duty to refuse to perform unlawful orders. Service members are taught that in initial entry training. But one of these Democrats, Senator Elissa Slotkin (D-MI), who labored for the CIA of all issues – that being a group that no one ever actually leaves – gave a tacit admission in an look on ABC news that the president has not issued any unlawful orders. She then proceeded to bizarrely deliver up incidents from the Nuremberg trials and, of all issues, a fictional film.

After admitting President Trump hasn’t issued any unlawful orders, Elissa Slotkin bizarrely brings up the Nuremberg trials and “A Few Good Men” to attempt and justify Democrats’ insurrectionist video. pic.twitter.com/1i2OrOY6FK

— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) November 23, 2025

That’s what they are going with? Seriously?

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Of course, there could be a more significant issue right here. It would take a long, concerned legal course of to decide, a course of no one appears anxious to start and which in all probability will never occur, but it looks as if these statements from these Democrat senators might be seen as an incitement to mutiny. And if any vital quantity of service members start refusing lawful orders, that are the only orders they’ve obtained, then this might get very critical certainly.

At best, these Democrats are fomenting doubt and attainable unrest in our navy. Several of them are former navy or previously half of the nation’s intelligence equipment. They ought to know better. The First Amendment, of course, provides them the correct to converse their minds, but it sure does not appear to grant them even a nodding acquaintance with good sense.

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