WASHINGTON DC (WFSB) - One of Connecticut’s senators unleashed a fiery response to social media posts in which the president said members of Congress should be hanged.

Sen. Chris Murphy asked people of influence in the country to “pick a [expletive] side.”

“The president of the United States just called for members of Congress to be executed,” Murphy said in a post on X. “This is not normal. We cannot allow this to feel normal.”

President Donald Trump on Thursday accused half a dozen Democratic lawmakers of sedition “punishable by death.”

The president was responding to a social media post from Sens. Elissa Slotkin and Mark Kelly, along with Reps. Jason Crow, Chris Deluzio, Maggie Goodlander and Chrissy Houlahan. The lawmakers asked U.S. military service members to uphold the U.S. Co

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