For someone on the verge of a possible court martial prosecuted by President Donald Trump ’s Defense Department, Mark Kelly sounds remarkably calm. Also, curious. And maybe a bit puzzled. But he is definitely not scared. “I grew up in the town that the fictional Tony Soprano grew up in,” Kelly tells me the day before a vague investigation of him is supposed to release its results. “When you grow up around mobsters, it makes you resilient to this shit.”

Raised in northern New Jersey, Kelly has for 17 years lived in Arizona, the state he now represents as a Democratic US Senator. In between, Kelly was an astronaut who made four trips into space and a Navy fighter pilot who flew 39 combat missions over Iraq. That military background has now put Kelly into Trump’s crosshairs. Last month,

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