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.
Today, exclusively on @SundayFutures with @MariaBartiromo , Senate Majority Whip John Barrasso @SenJohnBarrasso spoke about Democratic lawmakers urging U.S. servicemembers to refuse illegal orders.@FoxNews pic.twitter.com/YF5s1Ed5T4
— SundayMorningFutures (@SundayFutures) November 23, 2025
On this topic, Maria Bartiromo asked the senator:
What is your reaction to your colleagues on the left, telling U.S. military members to ignore President Trump’s directive?
Senator Barrasso:
Well, what they’re doing is wrong, and I believe it’s dangerous. Maria, they have no right to tell members of the military to disobey – we’re talking about active duty military – to disobey orders from their commanding officers. That’s the way the military works. And it’s up to the Supreme Court to decide what’s constitutional, not six Democrats on social media. I think the president is absolutely right to be requiring and talking about legal responsibility and then being held accountable. These are the same Democrats who have been doing everything they can for the last ten months to undermine President Trump, undermine the Republican party and our efforts, every one of them voted to raise taxes by $4 trillion, every one of them voted for the shutdown, and kept our country shut down and caused significant pain to the American people.
There are a few things to unpack here.
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. pic.twitter.com/1i2OrOY6FK
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) November 23, 2025
That’s what they’re going with? Seriously?
Read More: Ted Lieu Encourages California National Guardsmen to Mutiny Rather Than Serve in Los Angeles
PBS Claims Military Officers Are Lawyering Up Over Trump’s Orders but What’s Really Happening?
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.
At best, these Democrats are fomenting doubt and possible unrest in our military. Several of them are former military or formerly part of the nation’s intelligence apparatus. They should know better. The First Amendment, of course, gives them the right to speak their minds, but it sure doesn’t seem to grant them even a nodding acquaintance with good sense.
Editor’s Note: Every single day, here at RedState, we will stand up and FIGHT, FIGHT, FIGHT against the radical left and deliver the conservative reporting our readers deserve.
Help us continue to tell the truth about the Trump administration and its successes. Join RedState VIP and use promo code FIGHT to get 60% off your membership.
