For the second time in a week, President Donald Trump lashed out at Michigan Sen. Elissa Slotkin and suggested she and others should face prosecution in connection with a video they made in 2025.

In a Truth Social post on Thursday, Nov. 12, Trump asked whether a group of six representatives and senators, who included Slotkin, should be prosecuted for sedition.

“Will the Seditious Six ever be prosecuted? What they did was a great violation to our Country and its Constitution! President DONALD J. TRUMP,” the president said in the Thursday post on the social media site.

Trump’s comment references Democrats U.S. Rep. Chris Deluzio (Pennsylvania), a former Navy officer; Sen. Mark Kelly (Arizona), a former Navy captain and astronaut; Slotkin (Michigan), a former CIA analyst and Pentagon official; Rep. Jason Crow (Colorado), a former Army Ranger; Rep. Maggie Goodlander (New Hampshire), a former naval intelligence officer and DOJ official; and Rep. Chrissy Houlahan (Pennsylvania), a former Air Force engineer, who all took part in a video in 2025 that urged current members of the military to disregard illegal orders.

Trump at the time called the six seditious and said the crime was punishable by death and suggested George Washington would have hanged them.

The FBI and the Pentagon, which focused on Kelly, launched investigations into the representatives and senators, but ultimately no charges were filed against them after a grand jury refused to return an indictment.

In response to Trump’s latest comment, Slotkin issued a challenge: “Bring it.”

Slotkin’s responses on Facebook said Trump was a “disassembling authoritarian leader.” She said calling out foes is a “go-to move for a crumbling authoritarian government.

“It’s a classic move to try and weaponize the government against your critics — I’ve seen it in places like Eastern Europe and the Middle East, over and over. It’s also a desperate move to distract from the generational loss he’s brought to his party,” she said.

“It’s been almost exactly one year since the six of us made a 90-second video simply restating the law, and the President cannot let it go,” she wrote. “Based on that video, he ordered his then-Attorney General to ‘investigate, arrest and hang’ us for sedition. Last February, the Attorney General saluted and took us to court, trying to criminally indict us for sedition. A group of jurors, whom I will never meet, unanimously threw it out.” The President and the Attorney General came for me again in the last few weeks for yet another freedom of speech issue.”

She added that Trump’s latest attack shows he’s hitting rock bottom.

A week ago, Trump also took aim at Slotkin, calling her, among others, an extortionist for seeking to impeach War Secretary Pete Hegseth, and other complaints about his administration.

“The Senator from Michigan, Elissa Slotkin, is saying that she is going to go after all young people that believe in Republican Values, and that give even the slightest inclination to be a Republican,” Trump said in the Truth Social post. “By copy of this statement, I am ordering the Department of Justice to look into this criminal act, immediately! President DONALD J. TRUMP.”

Slotkin was elected senator in 2024 and was not up for reelection this month.

What did the 2025 video say?

Can troops refuse to obey illegal orders?

All members of the military take an oath of enlistment to support and defend the U.S. Constitution.

They obey orders according to the Uniform Code of Military Justice, the set of laws enacted in 1950 for all members of the U.S. armed forces. It requires personnel to obey any lawful order or regulation.

An accompanying set of rules, the Manual for Courts-Martial, says the mandate for obeying orders “does not apply to a patently illegal order, such as one that directs the commission of a crime.”

The War Department says military retirees are subject to laws that prohibit actions “intended to interfere with the loyalty, morale, or good order and discipline of the armed forces.”

— USA TODAY contributed

This article originally appeared on Lansing State Journal: Trump calls for prosecuting ‘seditious six.’ What Slotkin said back

Reporting by Dan Basso, USA TODAY NETWORK / Lansing State Journal

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