Speaking at a town hall in Tucson, Arizona, Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly mocked President Donald Trump and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, saying Trump was “asleep at the wheel” while calling Hegseth a “joke.”
“It feels to me that at every turn, this president is working against the American people,” Kelly told the crowd. “What I have seen from the Secretary of Defense and the president is not normal.”
“He sticks a full force of the DOD, the Uniform Code of Military Justice, on me for saying something that’s in the Uniform Code of Military Justice,” Kelly protested, referring to the video he and five other Democrats released urging troops to disobey orders they deemed to be unlawful. “You cannot make this stuff up. This is how ridiculous these people are, how unprofessional, how unqualified.”
“If he thinks I’m going to back down, he’s lost his mind,” Kelly boasted, adding, “He’s got a couple options. One of them is just go take a hike. That’s what I ultimately expect him to do. Or he could try to prosecute me, but I’m not going away because I’m standing up for everybody, not only myself.”
“They’re doing a lot of bad stuff,” he declared. “I mean, I’d put this on a list. It’ll be somewhere on a list of maybe 50 things. I’m not going to go through them. But let me tell you what he’s not doing. That’s even more important. What the president is not doing. This guy is literally asleep at the wheel … He has turned the United States government into a crappy reality TV show with bad ratings. And it’s time to turn it off,” Kelly stated.
Turning to Hegseth, he stated, “You’ll appreciate this. When Pete Hegseth tweeted that he was going to prosecute me under the Uniform Code of Military Justice. I see this tweet. I take out my phone and I read it verbatim to Gabby. And by the second sentence, she starts laughing. She laughed and laughed. She laughed through the whole thing. Because she realizes two things. One: That guy’s a joke. And number two. I’m not backing down.”
“When we win back the House and maybe even the Senate, we get the subpoena power. We can have hearings to hold this administration accountable for the awful stuff that they’re doing,” he threatened.
“The president doesn’t care about the law,” he declared. “When you give this guy this kind of power, and we knew what he was going to do with it. I mean, he was going to abuse every lever of power that he has. He’s trying to do it against me personally right now.”
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