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Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) recently found himself under fire by President Donald Trump’s supporters for posting a physically affectionate photograph on X. They demanded to know the identity of the woman in the picture… but were not prepared for the answer.
“For Republicans, the real soccer scandal of the weekend had nothing to do with Trump at all,” wrote The Bulwark’s Will Sommer on Tuesday. Sommer referred to Trump because the president controversially contacted the head of FIFA to reverse a ban on one of America’s star soccer players as they prepared to face Belgium, a game they ultimately lost.
“They were fuming about Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) wearing a Mexico jersey to watch the England-Mexico game with Mexico fans at a Tucson watch party,” Sommer added.
In addition to complaining that Kelly sided with Mexico over England in the World Cup, pro-Trump influencer Laura Loomer tried to sic the MAGA movement against Kelly by asking why he had his arm affectionately draped around a slender blonde woman.
“A US Senator who represents a BORDER STATE wearing Mexico’s jersey is bad enough, but I thought he was ‘super loyal’ to his medically brain dead wife who was shot in the head?” Loomer wrote on X, referring to how Kelly’s wife — the former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) — nearly died in a 2011 assassination attempt.
Loomer’s post, which has been viewed 1.8 million times as of this writing, was quickly rebutted by Giffords herself.
“Well, she looks pretty great to me @captmarkkelly 😘” Giffords posted, confirming that she is the woman in the picture.
Kelly has found himself in the Trump movement’s crosshairs before. When he joined a number of other Democratic lawmakers in urging members of the military to not follow illegal or unconstitutional orders, Trump accused Kelly of “sedition” that is “punishable by death.” Similarly, while delivering a special address to Congress in February, the president engaged in a stare down with the senator after demanding lawmakers stand up to express their support for his immigration agenda… and Kelly remained seated.
Speaking to NOTUS in June, Kelly said that Trump’s ire does not phase him personally.
“I don’t get angry about it; I don’t lose any sleep,” Kelly told NOTUS. “They’re going to do s—— like this. They’re flailing. They know the law’s on my side, and they want to shut people up. This is a corrupt administration, and it’s clear to everybody."
He added, “If they’re going to go after the rights of 2 million retired service members, it might as well be me.”
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President Donald Trump's administration lost it when a group of Democrats who previously served in the military or in intelligence reminded those still in service that they don't have to follow "unlawful orders." In fact, it's part of the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ).
Trump went so far as to call the message “sedition,” and added that it was “punishable by death.” The Justice Department tried to bring charges against the lawmakers, but a grand jury refused to indict.
While several Democrats in the video reminded viewers of the oath they took to uphold the Constitution, Trump's Department of Defense has responded by targeting one in particular: Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.), NOTUS reported Tuesday. The result has been a political gift to the lawmaker and has only amplified the message further.
According to the report, Kelly said that being targeted by Trump and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has "driven attention and millions in campaign cash." It has prompted him to “seriously” consider whether he should run for president in 2028. Further, the report said, the attack on Kelly "blessed one of the Senate’s most centrist members with an identity as a fighter in a party hungry for confrontation."
The report noted that every time Hegseth speaks or tweets, he's adding more evidence to Kelly's lawsuits and helping raise more money for Kelly's campaign. Kelly isn't even up for reelection until 2028, but is amassing a war chest to support other Democrats running for the Senate. Kelly also made it on Time's top 100 most influential people, and Hegseth did not.
“I don’t get angry about it; I don’t lose any sleep,” Kelly told NOTUS. “They’re going to do s—— like this. They’re flailing. They know the law’s on my side, and they want to shut people up. This is a corrupt administration, and it’s clear to everybody."
“If they’re going to go after the rights of 2 million retired service members, it might as well be me,” he also said.
One Democratic strategist argued that Kelly isn't known as the orator Barack Obama is, but he's getting eyeballs.
“Mark Kelly is a brilliant, charismatic dude, but his superpower is not lighting the room on fire with a fieriest stump speech with the most maximalist rhetoric,” the Democratic strategist said. “But every time the Trump administration hits him, he can say, ‘See, I’m their enemy, come with me in this fight.’ That is the most powerful thing for eyeballs, and eyeballs equals donors among the base.”
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Trump's retaliation against Mark Kelly called out by retired military official - Alternet.org
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According to new reporting from Politico, a federal appeals court is poised to quash Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s effort to punish Senator Mark Kelly (D-AZ), who drew the ire of the White House by telling troops to reject illegal orders. This represents a major blow to the administration’s war of narratives as it has attempted to smear Navy veteran and former astronaut Kelly as a traitor while asserting its broad military powers.
The matter dates back to last November, when Kelly, along with five other Democratic lawmakers, filmed a video warning that President Donald Trump intended to use the military against American citizens, and reminding troops that they have the right to “refuse illegal orders.” Hegseth then formally censured Kelly, launching a review into whether his rank and retirement pay should be diminished as a consequence. A district judge ruled that Hegseth’s actions amounted to an attack on free speech, which he appealed.
But on Thursday, the three judges presiding over the Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit had some harsh questions for White House lawyers, pushing back against the administration’s rationale and suggesting that they would uphold the lower court’s decision to back Kelly’s free speech.
“The text of the video, which I take to be really the fulcrum of this entire case, advises that service members have no obligation to obey unlawful orders,” said Judge Cornelia Pillard. “Nobody in the video says service members have a duty to disobey lawful orders.”
With her fellow judges expressing similar sentiments, it appears likely that Hegseth’s appeal has failed. While the Justice Department is also pushing for a criminal indictment for Kelly and the other five lawmakers involved with the video — all of whom have served in military or national security — such efforts have been stymied.
This has resulted in more than a mere legal loss for the Trump administration, but the ascension of an electoral rival. While Kelly previously had garnered some recognition as an astronaut and senator, “The saga has turned the Arizona Democrat into a high-profile opponent of the administration — and elevated his national standing as he ‘seriously’ considers a White House bid.”
According to Politico, “Kelly has turned his fight with Trump into a fundraising windfall, raking in a staggering $25 million-plus over the last six months even though he’s not on the ballot this year. And he’s leveraged the media attention into a megaphone while growing his online following. Regardless of how the appeals court rules, the case is likely to end up before the Supreme Court either just before the congressional midterms or in the months after, as candidates sharpen their 2028 message over Trump’s improper and potentially illegal use of the military.”
Kelly, who was on the shortlist to be Vice President Kamala Harris’s running mate in 2024, isn’t the only Democrat from the video with presidential aspirations. Senator Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) is known to be considering a bid for the primary. A former CIA analyst and Pentagon official, she serves on the Senate Armed Services Committee alongside Kelly.
While in 2024, Kelly was registering at just .4 percent in polls for possible 2028 Democratic candidates, Trump’s November declaration that the Senator’s “seditious behavior” was “punishable by death” thrust him into the spotlight. This high-profile battle with an unpopular president, plus Kelly’s experience as an astronaut and marriage to Gabby Giffords — who famously survived an assassination attempt — has shaped him into a rising political star.
“He’s got the backstory. He’s a hot commodity right now,” said Democratic presidential campaign strategist Pete Giangreco. “He’s done it in a way that has excited the base of the party but is also a talking point that can win a general election because this is about courage and standing up for the Constitution and making sure we have a military that is not politicized.”
As Steven Smith, political scientist and expert in elections and public opinion at Arizona State University, declared, “Some candidates may pop up and be flashier speakers, but none of them will be as articulate. Kelly just commands your attention.”
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The New York Times reports a Washington D.C. grand jury has again refused to acquiesce to President Donald Trump’s quest to prosecute his political foes, with the paper calling the rejection “a remarkable rebuke” from ordinary citizens.
The Times reports: “Federal prosecutors in Washington sought and failed on Tuesday to secure an indictment against six Democratic lawmakers who posted a video last fall that enraged President Trump by reminding active-duty members of the military and intelligence community that they were obligated to refuse illegal orders, four people familiar with the matter said.”
The *Times* additionally reports it was already remarkable that the U.S. attorney’s office in Washington — led by Trump ally Jeanine Pirro — even authorized prosecutors to approach a grand jury with an indictment of the six members of Congress, all of whom had served in the military or the nation’s spy agencies.
It is rare for grand jurors to snub prosecutors’ indictment requests, considering prosecutors get to dominate the jury with one-sided arguments leading up to their decision. However, the Times reports it has happened with increased frequency with Trump’s Justice Department “as his appointees push ahead with questionable cases.”
It is doubly surprising considering the president of the United States accused Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) and the other legislators of seditious conspiracy and said they could potentially be put to death. The U.S. Department of Defense later announced that it was launching an investigation into Kelly for participating in the video warning active-duty troops to not follow illegal orders from Trump and also threatened to court martial the NASA astronaut.
But the jury apparently disagreed on all counts and refused to indict any of the legislators incriminated by Trump.
Trump’s targets also Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.) and four colleagues in the House: Jason Crow (D-Colo.) Maggie Goodlander, (D-N.H.), Chrissy Houlahan (D-Pa.) and Chris Deluzio (D-Pa).
Kelly is already suing the Pentagon over its attempts to punish him.
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WATCH: On Senate Floor, Kelly Leads Colleagues in Marking 16 Years Since Citizens United Ruling, Highlighting Impact of Big Money in Politics on Working Families
*“The loudest voices in Washington became billionaires, not every day Americans.”
In case you missed it, Arizona Senator Mark Kelly led a series of floor speeches with his colleagues marking the 16th ^anniversary of the Supreme Court’s Citizens United v. FEC decision, which opened the floodgates for big, dark money in our politics.
In their remarks, Kelly and his colleagues connected the rise of dark money and super PAC spending to real-world consequences for Americans, highlighting how unlimited corporate and billionaire spending has warped priorities in Washington and driven up costs for working families, underscoring the need to restore accountability and transparency so that our democracy answers to voters—not special interests.
*Sen. Kelly speaks on Senate floor.
Watch Kelly’s full speech here. See key excepts from Kelly and his colleagues below:
*Sen. Kelly: “In 2010, the Supreme Court handed down a decision that put a ‘for sale’ sign on our democracy. The Citizens United ruling opened the door for corporations and billionaires to spend unlimited amounts of money to influence our elections, often without the public ever knowing who’s behind it. The Court decided that spending money in elections is the same as political speech, and that corporations should have the same political rights as individual Americans. The result was predictable – and it wasn’t limited to a courtroom. It changed how this place works. The loudest voices in Washington became billionaires, not every day Americans.
*Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI): “I was here before the Citizens United decision. When robust meaningful bipartisan climate legislation was constant here in the Senate. I can think of four major bipartisan bills here in the Senate. And I remember my friend, John McCain, carrying the Republican banner into the presidential election with a respectable climate platform. Well, right after Citizens United, all of that stopped. The barrage of fossil fuel dark money into our politics killed bipartisanship on climate change instantly. It is still a problem today.”
*Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR): “The growth in dark money has been stunning because there’s so much money among the oligarchs and billionaires, they want to spend it to create laws that favor the oligarchs and billionaires and they are spending at an extraordinary rate. Six years ago, it was about $300 million, but according to the Brennan Center […] dark money hit a record high of $1.9 billion in the 2024 races. That’s a six-fold increase in six years. That’s the rich and powerful buying their government. It is an absolute travesty. No one in our founding community of our nation who wrote the Declaration of Independence, who wrote the Constitution, wantedto design a system where the mega rich ran the place as a cabal of elites. But that’s what we have and that’s what we have to change.”
*Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN): “In the 2024 elections, secret money groups spent $1.9 billion – nearly double the amount spent just one cycle before. This undermines our democracy and shakes the public’s trust because unlimited, anonymous spending in our elections doesn’t encourage free speech – it drowns out the voices of American people who are seeking to participate. We must fight for a more transparent democracy where every voter’s voice is heard.”
*Sen. Andy Kim (D-NJ): “We live in the time of the greatest distrust in modern history. It doesn’t have to be this way. We can have a politics that restores and grows trust, instead of actively degrading it. This year is the 250th anniversary of the independence of our nation. This is our moment to free Americans from the influence of big money and give them their voice back in their democracy.”
*Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ): “Since the Citizens United decision, I have watched how this body has seen clearly corrupt forces beginning to overrun the commonsense and the will of the people and policy, more and more be bent to the whim and the will of the wealthiest of the wealthy in our country, in the world, as well as corporations, many of them multinational corporations. We are in crisis. Our nation is in crisis. […] Trust is vital for a democracy to thrive. And there has been nothing more powerful in undermining that trust in the years I’ve been in the Senate that I’ve seen than the destructive force of money in our politics.”
*Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL): “Under the current system that’s described by my colleagues on the floor, there is so much entrenched money that they virtually control the agenda and scare the living hell out of average individuals who don’t have a fortune to spend. And that’s the reality of what we face.”
*Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT): “Individuals today make up to 16% of total spending in elections. 16%. 84% of all the spending in elections today are not done by citizens. 84% of spending are corporations and organizations. Much of that money is anonymous. You have no idea where that comes from. Let me tell you what the impact of that. The impact is corruption. Let’s just call it what it is.”
*Sen. Alex Padilla (D-CA): “Citizens United didn’t just change campaign finance law — it fundamentally altered our democracy. It was the moment where the voices of everyday Americans began to be drowned out by a small and powerful few, armed with unlimited money and unprecedented access. As Trump completely sidelines the Federal Election Commission — our country’s top campaign finance watchdog — we are entering a midterm election season with unlimited money allowed in our elections and a President who has regularly used the powers of the office to benefit his billionaire donors. I will continue to push my colleagues to enact legislation to overturn Citizens United so that our elections reflect the will of the people instead of corporations and the highest bidder.”
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth — who is infamous for broadcasting secret military meetings and military strikes — again likely accidentally released comment about ongoing litigation despite the Defense Department’s widely accepted rule not to comment on court battles.
CNN reporter Haley Britzky posted on X that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth let slip the news in a social media post targeting Sen. Mark Kelly (R-Ariz.)
“Asked about this lawsuit yesterday, a Pentagon official said that ‘as a matter of policy, the Department does not comment on ongoing litigation,’” said Britzky, who then followed that up with Hegseth’s bitter insight.
“’Captain’ Kelly knows exactly what he did, and that he will be held to account. That’s [sic] why he’s so worried and cranky,” Hegseth stated on X.
Hegseth was responding to Kelly’s X post excoriating Hegseth and announcing his lawsuit against Hegseth and the Pentagon over a move to punish him for a video Kelly released with other lawmakers reminding military members that they must not follow illegal orders.
“Now, Pete Hegseth wants our longest-serving military veterans to live with the constant threat that they could be deprived of their rank and pay years or even decades after they leave the military just because he or another Secretary of Defense doesn’t like what they’ve said,” said Kelly. “That’s not the way things work in the United States of America, and I won’t stand for it.
The Defense Department announced last week that it was taking administrative action against Kelly, a retired Navy captain and astronaut who is serving his first full term in the Senate. The action could reduce Kelly’s retirement rank and bottleneck his military pension.
The lawsuit Kelly filed in Washington asked a federal judge to block the Pentagon’s punish, however, arguing that the move is “unlawful and unconstitutional.”
“The First Amendment forbids the government and its officials from punishing disfavored expression or retaliating against protected speech,” the complaint stated. “That prohibition applies with particular force to legislators speaking on matters of public policy.”
The Defense Department declined to comment on the ongoing litigation to reporters. However, Hegseth could not help but be baited into revealing a snap, in contradiction to department policy.
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Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) is now taking Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to court, accusing him of violating a provision of the U.S. Constitution protecting the free speech rights of lawmakers.
CNBC reported Monday that Kelly filed the lawsuit in U.S. District Court in the District of Columbia, with both Hegseth and the Department of Defense (DoD) named as defendants. The suit comes one week after Hegseth announced the DoD was cutting Kelly's military pension in retaliation for Kelly — a retired captain in the U.S. Navy and former astronaut — encouraging active-duty members of the military to remember their duty to disobey illegal orders.
The senior U.S. senator from Arizona argued in the lawsuit that the DoD's actions "trample on protections the Constitution singles out as essential to legislative independence," specifically the U.S. Constitution's speech or debate clause. That provision is found in Article I, Section 6 of the Constitution and reads that members of Congress "shall in all Cases, except Treason, Felony and Breach of the Peace, be privileged from Arrest during their Attendance at the Session of their respective Houses, and in going to and returning from the same; and for any Speech or Debate in either House, they shall not be questioned in any other Place."
"It appears that never in our nation’s history has the Executive Branch imposed military sanctions on a Member of Congress for engaging in disfavored political speech," Kelly's attorneys asserted in the lawsuit.
Politico legal correspondent Kyle Cheney noted that Kelly defended his position by quoting one of his Senate colleagues from across the political aisle. One portion of the complaint noted that Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) referred to Hegseth's censure letter to Kelly as having "a chilling effect on speech."
Kelly and five other Democratic members of Congress issued the call for members of the military to disobey illegal orders in a video posted in November. After President Donald Trump reposted a call for those lawmakers to be hanged, several of them received numerous death threats from Trump supporters, leading several to file official reports with the U.S. Capitol Police Department.
Click here to read CNBC's report in its entirety.
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Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) is being "demoted" as punishment for appearing in a viral video telling military members they don't have to follow unlawful orders.
A collection of former military service and intelligence members filmed a video last year. The action has no bearing on Kelly's position in the U.S. Senate, but the Pentagon intends to put a note on Kelly's permanent record.
"Right now, the threats to our Constitution aren't just coming from abroad, but from right here at home," the lawmakers told service members. "Our laws are clear: You can refuse illegal order. ... You must refuse illegal orders. No one has to carry out orders that violate the law or our Constitution."
Kelly served 25 years in the Navy and as a NASA astronaut, and achieved the rank of Captain.
According to a statement by Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, Kelly made "seditious statements," though the federal government doesn't intends to attempt any prosecutions for sedition. Hegseth initially said that he would court martial Kelly. However, a court martial would mean Hegseth would be forced into a military trial for Kelly, who maintains he has not broken any laws or rules with the video.
"This Censure is a necessary process step, and will be placed in Captain Kelly’s official and permanent military personnel file," Hegseth said in the statement.
"This is not a demotion of Sen. Mark Kelly (yet). But it's an effort to open the door to one. Those who sit on a grade determination board are typically service members at least one grade senior to the person under review. They are supposed to be impartial in nature," said military affairs reporterDan Lamothe from the Washington Post.
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When six Democratic senators with military and intelligence community experience posted a video last week calling on people now serving to refuse to carry out illegal orders, President Trump and many of his supporters lost it – even though the video was simply reminding servicemembers of their obligation under the Uniform Code of Military Justice.
The White House has walked back Trump’s initial outbursts calling for execution of the senators, but he said Sunday he still wants to see “the traitors that told the military to disobey my orders” in jail. He reposted a Truth social post calling the senators “traitorous sons of bitches” and “pompous traitorous communists” who “should be impeached and prosecuted.”
The senators have reported receiving death threats, and Trump allies are fanning MAGA outrage with false characterizations of the senators’ video.
Many MAGA attacks ignored the essential point of the senators’ video, which was to urge servicemembers not to obey illegal orders.
Trump adviser Stephen Miller, who has overseen official brutality against immigrants and their defenders, falsely claimed, “Democrat lawmakers are now openly calling for insurrection” and told Fox News viewers that it was “a general call for rebellion.”
Last week Libs of TikTok posteda claim that “Elected Democrats just released a video encouraging members of the military to commit treason and DEFY orders from Trump and Hegseth.”
On Sunday, the Republican National Committee sent an email claiming “Democrats want to stage a military coup” and falsely claiming that the video “called for an all-out coup against President Trump and Pete Hegseth” by “directly asking troops to disobey their orders.”
The RNC called the senators “disgusting socialists” and claimed they were “urging INSUBORDINATION.”
On Monday, the Washington Examiner’s Elizabeth Stauffer wrote that “Democrats are openly calling for a military mutiny.” She said the senators’ video had “all the hallmarks of a psychological operation lifted straight from the CIA’s playbook.”
Political dirty trickster Roger Stone claimed Monday that the video “is a call to arms for a revolt” and complained that “congressional seditionists” were emboldened by the fact that the Justice Department has not moved quickly enough to prosecute former “Deep State” officials.
Gary Bauer—yes, he’s still at it—used his daily newsletter to attack the senators for “stoking division and fueling mistrust in our government, which is the goal of our enemies”—and, let’s be honest, is the hallmark of Trump and the MAGA movement.
The Pentagon announced that Sen. Mark Kelly, a retired Navy Captain, would be investigated and could be recalled to active duty to face a court martial over what Hegseth claimed was a “seditious” video.
Kelly and the other senators made it clear that they were not cowed by Trump’s bluster, and many of their congressional colleagues came to their defense. Rep. Jason Crow of Colorado called it “a decisive moment.” Crow wrote on X, “Trump is trying to incite violence, intimidate, and punish those who speak up to hold him accountable. But the only thing we fear is not rising to this moment and defending the country we love.”
Former Rep. Adam Kinzinger said in a videothat military officers are told on “day one” of their training that they are obligated to not follow unlawful or illegal orders. Kinzinger called the Defense Department’s threat “chilling” and said it was designed to strike the fear of God into former officers who are publicly critical of Trump.
A rare critical voice from a sitting Republican came from Rep. Don Bacon who wrote that he thought the senators’ video was a bad idea, but that talk of sedition and threats of court martial were “crazy.”
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President Donald Trump’s Department of Defense is now targeting a sitting U.S. Senator, one of six Democratic lawmakers who appeared in a video reminding members of the U.S. Armed Forces and the Intelligence Community of their right to refuse to obey an illegal order.
U.S. Senator Mark Kelly (D-AZ), a retired astronaut and former naval officer, along with the other five said, “threats to our Constitution aren’t just coming from abroad, but from right here at home.”
“Our laws are clear,” they added. “You can refuse illegal orders.”
In an official statement on social media, the Department of Defense alleged it has “received serious allegations of misconduct against Captain Mark Kelly, USN (Ret.).”
It added, “a thorough review of these allegations has been initiated to determine further actions, which may include recall to active duty for court-martial proceedings or administrative measures.” The statement also said, “federal laws such as 18 U.S.C. § 2387 prohibit actions intended to interfere with the loyalty, morale, or good order and discipline of the armed forces.”
President Trump last week in a series of social media posts promoted hanging the six Democrats.
“It’s called seditious behavior at the highest level,” the president also charged. “Each one of these traitors to our Country should be Arrested and put on trial. Their words cannot be allowed to stand – We won’t have a Country anymore!!! An example must be set.”
“Seditious behavior, punishable by death!” he continued.
Critics blasted the Pentagon’s move.
“Sen. Kelly didn’t tell troops to defy lawful orders, he reminded them of their duty to refuse unlawful ones, which is literally what the UCMJ and decades of military precedent require!” wrote The Bulwark’s Evan Rosenfeld. “Pretending that doing so is ‘misconduct’ is complete propaganda and not rooted in law.”
Punchbowl News’ Andrew Desiderio called it “Pretty extraordinary to call out a sitting senator in this way.”
The Bulwark’s Sam Stein labeled it “ham-handed,” and Bill Kristol of Defending Democracy called it “Naked authoritarianism.”
But The Independent’s Andrew Feinberg noted that the video “looks to have been an official one for which [Kelly] would enjoy Speech or Debate immunity.”
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President Donald Trump lashed out at Fox News in a Truth Social post on Sunday, criticizing the network for airing an interview with Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) on the topic of healthcare.
Trump accused Fox and correspondent Peter Doocy of giving Kelly a platform to speak "totally unabated or challenged," while ignoring Republican perspectives and diminishing his own popularity in their coverage.
“Why is FoxNews and Peter Doocy putting on Democrat Senator Mark Kelly to talk about, totally unabated or challenged, Healthcare?” Trump wrote. “The FAKE SPIN is so bad for Republicans that it is hard to believe that we WIN.”
The post, laden with Trump’s trademark all-caps emphasis and grievances against media bias, continued with a warning to the conservative network: “Fox should either get on board, or get off board, NOW, but at this point, it just doesn’t make any difference to me.”Trump also claimed Fox News benefits from his popularity and presence in the Republican Party but allegedly distorts coverage to favor Democrats.
He also slammed the network’s polling practices, stating they “refuse to put up Polls that correctly show me at 65% in Popularity, a Republican RECORD,” and labeled the Fox News Poll as “one of the worst 'Pollsters' out there.”
The president’s remarks were criticized on social media.
Democratic influencer Brian Krassenstein wrote on the social platform X: “Trump flips out at Fox News for not completely sucking up to him.
He wants Fox News to be an arm of the government, and he just told America that.
He said the quiet part out loud.”
Podcaster Spencer Hakimian wrote: “Trump is very angry at Fox News and Peter Doocy.”
“Every single hour of every day, he is more unhinged and lives in a delusional fantasy world filled with made up numbers and complete nonsense that doesn’t exist. Despite this being the kind of rant an escape mental patient would spew out, its become normalized & it gets ignored,” wrote an account on X.
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One of President Donald Trump's closest associates is now publicly calling for a Democratic member of the U.S. Senate to be killed over a bill he introduced to rein in "corruption."
In a post to his X account, Trump confidant Roger Stone insisted that Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) was compromised by the Chinese Communist Party because of a company he co-founded getting venture capital from a Chinese company. Stone wrote that Kelly should be "charged with treason and if convicted executed, consistent with federal law."
The Daily Beast reported Friday that Stone's remark was in response to Kelly officially submitting a cryptocurrency regulation bill for consideration that would prevent the president, vice president and their families from "issuing, endorsing, or sponsoring crypto assets." Kelly's bill specifically mentioned "memecoins," which is particularly noteworthy as Trump has specifically promoted memecoins named after both himself and First Lady Melania Trump.
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"Trump is cashing in on his presidency and making millions from his own crypto coins — this is corruption in broad daylight," Kelly tweeted.
The Trump family is also profiting from its crypto company, World Liberty Financial. His middle son Eric recently spoke at a conference in the United Arab Emirates, where the government of Dubai announced a $2 billion investment in cryptocurrency exchange Binance using a new "stablecoin" (a cryptocurrency with a price designed to be at or near $1 for a long period of time) from World Liberty. The deal could result in Trump directly raking in hundreds of millions of dollars.
It isn't just Democratic senators who are uneasy about Trump profiting from various cryptocurrency schemes. Republican Sens. Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.) and Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) have also gently insisted that it's improper for the president to openly profit from cryptocurrency while in office, with Lummis calling for "regulatory framework" that would address the issue.
Stone was found guilty of lying to Congress about Trump's knowledge of Russian efforts to interfere with the 2016 election, witness tampering and obstruction. Even though he had been sentenced to more than three years in federal prison, Trump pardoned him during his lame-duck period in December of 2020.
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Click here to read the Beast's full report (subscription required).
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Channel 4 in the U.K. published a startling expose on ExxonMobil's lobbyists who revealed the top most important U.S. Senators who are the ones behind any legislation that might hurt the oil industry.
While many oil companies are diversifying with natural gas, it appears ExxonMobil is going all-in battling to keep "big oil" alive and well.
"Keith McCoy is a senior ExxonMobil lobbyist on Capitol Hill and has represented the company in its liaison with the U.S. Congress for the last eight years," explained the report.
"Did we aggressively fight against some of the science? Yes. Did we hide our science? Absolutely not," said McCoy on camera. "Did we join some of these shadow groups to work against some of the early efforts? Yes, that's true. But there's nothing, there's nothing illegal about that. We were looking out for our investments. We were looking out for our shareholders."
McCoy compared his work with elected officials to fishing with ExxonMobil who supplies the "bait" before it "reels in" the official on issues like a carbon tax, electric cars, taxation and infrastructure.
"When you have an opportunity to talk to a member of Congress, I liken it to fishing, right? You know you have bait, you throw that bait out. And they say: 'Oh, you want to talk about infrastructure, yeah,'" McCoy continued. "And then you start to reel them in and you start to have these conversations about federal leasing programs, you start to have these conversations about a carbon tax.You know, it's all these opportunities that you use and to use the fishing analogy again just to kind of reel them in."
"I make sure I get them the right information that they need so they look good. And then they help me out. They're a captive audience. They know they need you. And I need them," McCoy also said.
He went on to explain that lobbyists aim to have close relationships with officials.
"You want to be able to go to the chief… and say we need congressman so and so to be able to either introduce this bill, we need him to make a floor statement, we need him to send a letter. You name it, we've asked for everything," he said.
But it was the shocking revelation that he has 11 U.S. Senators on the hook.
"Senator Shelley Moore Capito, Senator Joe Manchin, Senator Kyrsten Sinema, Senator Jon Tester, Senator Maggie Hassan, Senator John Barrasso, Senator John Cornyn, Senator Steve Daines, Senator Chris Coons,Senator Mark Kelly and Senator Marco Rubio," were all cited.
He went on to explain that the last thing they want is to appear in a public hearing before Congress where the American people can see.
"We don't want it to be us, to have these conversations, especially in a hearing. It's getting our associations to step in and have those conversations and answer those tough questions and be for, the lack of a better term, the whipping boy for some of these members of congress," McCoy confessed.
"There was something we were working on earlier this week where we, where our CEO was invited to a hearing from a member of congress who we know is just going to rip him to shreds when he goes there. So, we look at it and we say: well, why us?" he asked.
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Republicans may have blown their hopes for beating a recently elected Democratic senator through the actions of one man, Arizona Republic columnist Laurie Roberts wrote on Monday.
"When the story on Arizona’s 2022 election is written, surely one of the sorriest chapters will be the collapse of Mark Brnovich.
A year ago, Arizona’s attorney general looked to be the Republican Party’s best shot at reclaiming the Senate seat that Republicans had held since 1969 – until voters sent appointed Sen. Martha McSally packing in 2020," she wrote. "In the end, Mark Brnovich faced one obstacle he couldn’t overcome: Mark Brnovich."
McSally lost the 2020 special election to fill the rest of John McCain's term to Democrat Mark Kelly.
"Last week, Brnovich dropped into third place in a Republican race that he might well have won had he simply stayed in his own lane and run as himself, a traditional conservative Republican," she wrote. "Early on, Brnovich was that rare Republican who was willing to tell the truth about the 2020 election, risking the wrath of his base by acknowledging that there was no grand conspiracy to defeat Trump in Arizona."
Roberts wrote that instead of running as a traditional conservative Republican, Brnovich started "pandering to far-right Republicans who were never going to vote for him."
As longtime Republican strategist Chuck Coughlin told Roberts, “He kept trying to court a portion of the electorate that was never going to be his."
Roberts noted that Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp and Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger ran as traditional conservative Republicans and "defeated Trump-backed candidates peddling their stolen election schtick."
Roberts thinks Brnovich's choices will likely result in Kelly being elected to a full term.
"This is a race that should be the Republicans’ to win given history, an eight-point turnout advantage and a Democratic president whose approval ratings rank somewhere between dismal and I-didn’t-know-you-could-go-that-low.
Yet here they are, poised to nominate Blake Masters, a hard-right Trump pick who has no hope of knocking out Mark Kelly becasue he cannot credibly move to the middle where this race will be decided," she wrote.
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Arizona senatorial candidate Mark Kelly is currentlybeating his Republican challenger Martha McSally by about 5 percentage points. So a right-wing media outlet decided to try and take Kelly down by posting a photo and lying about him dressing up as Nazi leader Adolf Hitler during his school days at the Merchant Marine Academy.
On Friday, the right-wing website the National File shared photographic "proof" that Kelley had dressed as Hitler, and the post quickly went viral. But Kelly's former classmates Jennifer Boykin, Peter Lindsey, Mark Baden and Ed McDonald have all said that the image isn't of Kelly.
Lindsey in particular said someone contacted him with the image via the professional social network LinkedIn asked "and asked if the person in the costume was Mark Kelly. I told them no, and want to say again, Mark is not in those photos. I have spoken to numerous classmates about this evening, and they concur that he is not in any of these pictures. The people spreading these lies should stop."
"The person who reached out to Lindsey was identified by the campaign as a paid consultant for a super political action committee aligned with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-K.Y., that is spending millions of dollars to help defeat Kelly," AZCentral.com reports.
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