Democratic Michigan Sen. Elissa Slotkin confirmed Wednesday she is being investigated for her role in a viral November video urging U.S. service members to not follow “illegal orders” by the Trump administration.
Slotkin posted a video to X on Wednesday saying that Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, requested to interview her last week amid an open FBI inquiry from the Bureau’s counterterrorism division. Slotkin, a former CIA analyst who served three tours in Iraq as an intelligence officer, is the latest of the video’s participants to face investigation from the administration.
“Now, [Trump is] using his political appointees at the FBI and Department of Justice to follow through with his threats. To be clear, this is the president’s playbook,” Slotkin said in the video. “Truth doesn’t matter, facts don’t matter, and anyone who disagrees with him becomes an enemy and he then weaponizes the federal government against them. It’s legal intimidation and physical intimidation.”
House Reps. Jason Crow of Colorado, Chris Deluzio of Pennsylvania, Maggie Goodlander of New Hampshire and Chrissy Houlahan of Pennsylvania, who are all military veterans, also took part in the video. Crow told reporters Wednesday all the House members from the video have been contacted by the Justice Department.
“Donald Trump is using the Department of Justice as a weapon to harass and intimidate me, in particular, as well as the other members who filmed that video,” Crow said.
Slotkin also claimed in her Wednesday X video that threats to her and her family increased after Trump’s posts. She received a bomb threat on her house, over 100 credible threats against her, and had to implement around the clock security from the Capitol police.
On Monday, Kelly, a Navy veteran, filed a lawsuit against Hegseth over the secretary’s move to demote his military rank, claiming that the Pentagon’s move sets a precedent that military veterans now have to live with the threat that their rank could be stripped if Hegseth “or another Secretary of Defense doesn’t like what they’ve said.”
President Donald Trump accused the six Democrats in the video, which included Slotkin and her upper chamber colleague Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly, of “seditious behavior.” Similarly, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth dubbed the half-dozen Democratic lawmakers the “Seditious Six.”
“This administration is pitting our uniformed military and intelligence community professionals against American citizens,” the six lawmakers said in the video, in tandem with each other. “Our laws are clear. You can refuse illegal orders. You can refuse illegal orders. You must refuse illegal orders.”
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