“Sick in the head”: Trump floats death penalty for Democratic lawmakers

President Donald Trump threatened six Democratic lawmakers with the death penalty on Thursday, saying they were “dangerous to our country.”

The four Democratic representatives and two Democratic senators issued a joint statement calling on members of the military and intelligence community not to take unlawful orders from the president. All six were either former veterans or national security analysts.

“This administration is pitting our uniformed military and intelligence community professionals against American citizens,” they said in the video. “You must refuse illegal orders. No one has to carry out orders that violate the law or our Constitution.”

Trump raged at the lawmakers in a series of posts to Truth Social.

“SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR FROM TRAITORS!!! LOCK THEM UP???” Trump wrote. “