The FBI is trying to interview the six Democratic lawmakers, all former service members, as President Donald Trump called for their imprisonment over the video.
Nov. 25 The FBI wants to interview six military veteran Democratic lawmakers President Donald Trump said should be jailed over a video they produced last week reminding service members of their Constitutional oath and responsibility to reject illegal orders.
Five of the lawmakers confirmed in statements on Tuesday that the FBI was seeking to speak with them about the video.
«President Trump is using the FBI as a tool to intimidate and harass members of Congress», Reps. Jason Crow of Colorado, Maggie Goodlander of New Hampshire and Chris Deluzio and Chrissy Houlahan of Pennsylvania said in a joint statement Tuesday. «No amount of intimidation or harassment will ever stop us from doing our jobs and honoring our Constitution.»
Sen. Elissa Slotkin of Michigan specified that the FBI’s Counterterrorism Division had reached out to the lawmakers.
«The President directing the FBI to target us is exactly why we made this video in the first place. He believes in weaponizing the federal government against his perceived enemies and does not believe laws apply to him or his Cabinet», Slotkin, a former CIA analyst and Pentagon official, said in a separate statement published to Bluesky.
The lawmakers’ statements accused Trump of using his federal law enforcement to harass and intimate critics. On Monday, the Department of Defense announced it was investigating Sen.
