Chilling Video: Mark Kelly Betrays Dems' Plan to Destroy Servicemen Who Obeyed Trump Once They Return to Power

If anyone still had trouble deciphering the bizarre performance put on by the so-called “Seditious Six,” conservative commentator Stephen L. Miller — not the White House adviser, but the writer and pundit — was happy to translate the real message behind their stunt.

The six Democrats released a video warning U.S. service members not to follow “illegal orders,” yet never identified a single such order, nor provided any scenario in which one had occurred. The entire performance boiled down to a not-so-subtle insinuation: anything President Donald J. Trump commands might retroactively be declared “illegal” by a future Democratic administration.

For those who forgot the “Seditious Six” and their one-hit melodrama, “Don’t Give Up the Ship,” the reemergence of their messaging only underscores how openly they are now flirting with the idea of institutionalized insubordination.

Despite admitting they had no evidence whatsoever of an illegal order, the group insisted Americans should be outraged at President Trump — not at the lawmakers attempting to redefine sedition in real time.

This is where Miller stepped in, analyzing the left’s reaction to a supposed scandal involving Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Navy Vice Adm. Frank “Mitch” Bradley, following media claims about a second strike against narco-terrorists in the Caribbean.

“If you’ve been paying attention to this, what they are doing is going from ‘don’t follow illegal orders’ to ‘we will decide which orders are illegal when we’re back in charge so you better just not follow any of Trump’s orders, or else you might be prosecuted,’” Miller wrote on Saturday. “Another fun barrier broken by the norms crowd.”

It took barely a day for one of the original members of the “Seditious Six,” Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly, to essentially confirm Miller’s point on NBC News’ “Meet the Press.”

On determining illegal orders, Kelly claimed: “It’s a tremendous amount of burden on officers in the military. But that is their responsibility. And they can figure it out. You know, a reasonable person can tell something that is legal and something that is illegal.”

But when the topic shifted to the alleged second strike on a drug-smuggling vessel, his message changed tone — and revealed the real objective: “Well, the difference between the initial strike and what is being reported, you know, as a second strike, and those things are different — I think this administration has tied themselves in knots, the explanations that we have received on how this is all legal. And I was saying weeks ago, my concern is with the service members, that they’re going to — we’re going to put these individuals in a really, really tough decision — tough place. And, you know, they may find out, you know, down the road, that they did something that is illegal. It is not fair to them. That’s why we need presidents and secretary of Defense who understand the Constitution, who understand the rule of law, and have more respect for the Constitution, and the country, and service members than the whims of a president.”

So Kelly claims “a reasonable person can tell” what is legal — yet warns service members they might “find out, you know, down the road, that they did something that is illegal.” In other words: obey President Trump at your own risk, because Democrats may criminalize your actions once they regain power.

Assuming Kelly wasn’t simply stumbling over his own rhetoric — and his career suggests that is always a possibility — his comments amount to an attempt to intimidate every service member in the armed forces into selective disobedience. It’s a dangerous political tactic dressed up as concern.

And Kelly is doing this despite the fact that the Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Counsel already confirmed the counter-narcotics strike authority as fully lawful. If Democrats believe the legal conclusion is wrong, the proper approach is to challenge the policymakers — not to terrorize rank-and-file troops with threats of future prosecutions.

What Kelly and his cohort have really accomplished is proving why Democrats cannot be trusted with national leadership. Their willingness to weaponize ambiguity, destabilize military discipline, and undermine a sitting Commander in Chief only reinforces the urgency of preventing them from reclaiming power.

Solid work, senator — just not the kind he imagines.