“This administration is pitting our military and intelligence officials against American citizens,” the Democrats said in the video statement .
"No one must carry out orders that violate the law or our constitution," they further say.
The US president is furious about the statement. On his social media platform Truth Social, Trump writes that it is "really bad and dangerous for our country", and that the Democrats are "traitors".
"Lock them up???" Trump writes and continues in another post:
“Seditious behavior, punishable by death!”
American military and intelligence officers swear allegiance to the U.S. Constitution and promise to protect the country from “foreign and domestic” enemies. The oath also includes a requirement to obey the orders of the president and superiors, but to do so within the law.
The Democrats behind the video are Senators Elissa Slotkin and Mark Kelly, and House members Jason Crow, Maggie Goodlander, Chris Deluzio, and Chrissy Houlahan.
The move comes against the backdrop of the Trump administration's deadly attacks on what are described as drug traffickers in the Caribbean Sea and the National Guard's operations in American cities.
