“Everybody Needs to Wake Up: The Occupant of the Oval Office Is Ignorant to the Constitution and Has No Regard for the Rule of Law”

In a stinging rebuke of the belligerent words and the inept and undoubtedly illegal actions of Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth, Arizona Senator Mark Kelly, fresh off appearing on NBC and CNN Sunday morning political talk shows, held a news conference in Washington, D.C..

During the conference, Senator Kelly ably outlined all the ways Mr. Trump had continued his habit of destroying everything he touches, from his failed business ventures, including bankrupting a casino, to using intimidation to steamroll his ill-advised policies like tariffs and health care price hikes that are destroying the American People and the Nation’s economy.

He also compared his record of service to Trump’s record of failures and spewing false conspiracy theories.

He also explained how Trump should have simply said “of course” in reaction to the video Senator Kelly and five other members of Congress released a couple of weeks ago, where they urged members of the active military not to obey an illegal order, instead of threatening to arrest and hang all of the people who appeared on the social media post.

In his comments before taking questions, Senator Kelly said:

“…The President has gone too far. Everybody needs to wake up. The occupant of the Oval Office Is Ignorant to the Constitution and Has No Regard for the Rule of Law. Trying to silence me in proposing to court-martial me and threatening to kill me for fighting back when our Democracy demands that we must fight back. President Trump has crossed the line, and this time, it’s not going to work. I will not be intimidated by this President. I am not going to be silenced by this President or the people around them. I’ve given too much in service to this country to back down to this guy…They aren’t going to keep me from speaking out. And they’re not going to keep me from doing my job. Enough of the bullying. Enough of the intimidation. Enough of the threats. Enough of your nonsense. Doesn’t help anyone in the country afford their groceries or pay their medical bills. And it erodes the rights of every American...”

During the question and answer session, the Senator chastised the unqualified and incompetent Hegseth for his role in ordering the deaths of survivors of a boat the United States bombed for dubious reasons, equating him to “A twelve-year-old on stage that plays army.”

He also challenged Trump’s reasoning to use the military to effect regime change with Maduro in Venezuela, while he just pardoned the former President of Honduras and released him from an American prison for the very drug trafficking that Maduro is accused of doing.

Again, this is how it is done.