White House asserts Trump doesn't want to execute Democratic lawmakers – video

The White House maintained on Thursday that Donald Trump, despite his social media posts, did not mean that lawmakers who made a video saying troops shouldn't follow 'illegal orders' should be executed. Speaking at the White House briefing, Karoline Leavitt, the press secretary, said that members of Congress who made the video 'conspired' to encourage active duty service members to 'defy the president’s lawful orders'

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