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US senator slams Republicans’ silence on Trump’s violent threats to Democrats

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Mark Kelly, a Democratic senator from Arizona, speaks in Chicago, Illinois, on 22 August 2024. Photograph: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

Senator Mark Kelly on Sunday urged congressional Republicans to publicly reject Trump’s threats against him and five other Democratic lawmakers who stated that military personnel are not obligated to follow illegal commands.

“We’ve heard very little, basically crickets, from Republicans in the United States Congress about what the president has said about hanging members of Congress,” Kelly, of Arizona, said on CBS’s Face the Nation.

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