Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) on Sunday condemned President Donald Trump for suggesting her statements urging U.S. military members to disobey “illegal” orders marked “seditious behavior, punishable by death.”

Trump is seeking to exercise “a tool of fear” through his remarks, the Michigan lawmaker said during an ABC News interview.

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“He’s trying to get us to shut up because he doesn’t want to be talking about this,” Slotkin said. “In fact, I would argue that one of the things that he’s been doing by repeating it and talking about it is trying to distract us from t

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