PHOENIX — Arizona Senator Mark Kelly accused President Donald Trump on Monday of trying to send a chilling message to other Americans by threatening to have Kelly executed.

“President Trump is trying to silence me, threatening to kill me for saying what is true,” Kelly said. “And he sent his Secretary of Defense after me. It’s not going to work.”

Kelly also spoke in a news conference on Monday about the bombing of a suspected drug boat three months ago in the Caribbean. The White House acknowledges that two people were seen hanging onto the side of a floating wreckage in the September 2 missile strike before the military carried out a second strike. The revelation has stirred questions about whether the strike amounts to an unjustified killing in the administration’s campaign to target “

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