Karoline Leavitt Tells Fox News: You Can’t Have a Soldier ‘Questioning Whether That Order Is Lawful’

Sean James Nov 24th, 2025, 5:32 pm

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt went off on the six Democratic lawmakers who said military and intelligence service members must “refuse illegal orders,” with Leavitt on Monday saying they were “deranged” and seeking to undermine President Donald Trump as commander-in-chief.

Leavitt, during an appearance on on Fox News, said the Democratic lawmakers were dead wrong on the issue. She said service members have a “legal obligation” under the Uniform Code of Military Justice to “obey lawful orders and that orders are presumed to be lawful.”

The military would descend into anarchy without that presumption, Leavitt told Martha MacCallum

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