Up late Sunday night, Trump posted a selectively edited excerpt of 18 U.S.C. § 2387, a statute on military insubordination, an implied attack on the Democratic lawmakers who recently posted a video urging U.S. troops to refuse unconstitutional or unlawful orders. Those lawmakers are:

1. Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI)

2. Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ)

3. Rep. Jason Crow (D-CO)

4. Rep. Chris Deluzio (D-PA)

5. Rep. Maggie Goodlander (D-NH)

6. Rep. Chrissy Houlahan (D-PA)

However, Trump highlighted only the law’s opening reference to influencing military “loyalty, morale, or discipline” and its ten-year penalty, while omitting the key language that limits the crime to urging insubordination, disloyalty, mutiny, or refusal of duty.

The missing portion is central to the statute’s meaning, defining

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