President Donald Trump said Friday that he's "not threatening death" on a group of Democratic members of Congress whom he accused of "seditious behavior," which he said was "punishable by death."

“In the old days, if you said a thing like that, that was punishable by death,” the president said in an interview Friday on conservative Brian Kilmeade’s radio show when asked to clarify what he meant.

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The president denied that he threatened the members of Congress. "I think they’re in serious trouble. I would say they’re in serious trouble. I’m not threatening death, but I think they’re in serious trouble. In the old days, it was death. That was seditious behavior."

Trump said that the lawmakers who appeared in the vid

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