Trump ups his attacks on Democrats with posts calling them a ‘Domestic Terrorist party’ and ‘traitorous communists’ — live updates

Senator Rand Paul, a Republican, appeared to address President Donald Trump’s response to the six Democrats who filmed a video urging the military to “refuse illegal orders” this week.

Trump claimed Thursday the video was “SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR AT THE HIGHEST LEVEL,” and in another post claimed such behavior is “punishable by DEATH.” Trump went on to label them “TRAITORS” on Saturday night.

CBS News’ Margaret Brennan asked Paul about Trump’s “dangerous rhetoric” on Sunday.

“You know, everybody knows that the President is famous for his unfiltered social media,” Paul said. “But if you take at face value the idea that calling your opponents traitors and then specifically saying that it warrants the death penalty is reckless, inappropriate, irresponsible, there are a number of other ways to describe it, but it’s not something that is helping the country heal wounds.”

“I think it stirs things up and- and really, I think we can do better,” he added.

Latino Republicans are warning the GOP that the 2025 elections earlier this month show that their party risks losing the gains President Donald Trump made with Hispanic voters in 2024.

Senator Elissa Slotkin, a Democrat who urged members of the military and intelligence community to “defy illegal orders” in a video with her colleagues this week, called President Donald Trump’s response a “tool of fear.”

On Truth Social this week, Trump labelled the video “SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR,” and at one point claimed that sedition is “punishable by DEATH.”

“He’s trying to get us to shut up because he doesn’t want to be talking about this,” Slotkin said Sunday on ABC News’ This Week.

“In fact, I would argue that one of the things that he’s been doing by repeating it and talking about it is trying to distract us from the big stories of last week, which were the [Jeffrey] Epstein files and then the economy,” she added.

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President Donald Trump has re-shared multiple posts on Truth Social today criticizing the Democratic lawmakers who appeared in a video this week telling service members to “refuse illegal orders.”

In one post, Trump shared a screenshot of a social media user’s post calling for the lawmakers to “resign.”

In another post, Trump shared a screenshot of a social media post that reads: “Go get all those traitorous sons of b****** for sedition at the very least.”

Trump claimed Thursday that the video was “SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR AT THE HIGHEST LEVEL,” and in another post claimed such behavior is “punishable by DEATH.”

The Democratic lawmakers responded to Trump’s threats on Thursday, writing that what’s “most telling is that the President considers it punishable by death for us to restate the law.” Trump later claimed he was “not threatening death,” but thinks “they’re in serious trouble.”

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Representative Jason Crow, a Democrat from Colorado, spoke with CBS News today about the threats he’s received after President Donald Trump accused him and other lawmakers of “seditious behavior.”

Trump accused a group of Democratic lawmakers, which included Crow, of “seditious behavior” after they filmed a video calling on service members to “refuse illegal orders” this week.

CBS News Correspondent Margaret Brennan asked Crow about threats he had received since, and if any of them were credible.

“We don’t know, Margaret, we’re going to take these seriously, but it’s very disturbing stuff when you have the President of the United States threatening to execute and to hang and to arrest using this rhetoric, people listen to it,” Crow replied.

This comes after Crow said that a bomb threat was made against his office in Aurora, Colorado, on Friday.

President Donald Trump accused six Democratic lawmakers of “seditious behavior” this week after they posted a video calling on service members and those in the intelligence community to “refuse illegal orders.”

Senator Mark Kelly, who was one of the six lawmakers in the video, responded to Trump’s rhetoric on CBS News’ Face the Nation.

“His words carry tremendous weight, more so than anybody else in the country, and he should be aware of that, and because of what he says, there is now increased threats against us,” Kelly said Sunday.

Trump responded to the video on Thursday, writing that it was “SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR AT THE HIGHEST LEVEL.” In another post, he claimed such behavior is “punishable by DEATH.” Last night, he also called for the lawmakers to be jailed.

The Democratic lawmakers responded to Trump’s threats on Thursday, writing that what’s “most telling is that the President considers it punishable by death for us to restate the law.” Trump later claimed he was “not threatening death,” but thinks “they’re in serious trouble.”