Three more Democrats said Wednesday that federal prosecutors contacted them after they appeared in a video urging members of the military and intelligence community to ignore orders from superiors.
Reps. Jason Crow of Colorado, Maggie Goodlander of New Hampshire, and Chrissy Houlahan of Pennsylvania said they would not back down as the Trump administration scrutinizes the video.
“Donald Trump called for my arrest, prosecution, and execution—all because I said something he didn’t like. Now he’s pressuring his political appointees to harass me for daring to speak up and hold him accountable,” Crow said in a statement.
Goodlander cried on X, “It is sad and telling that simply stating a bedrock principle of American law caused the President of the United States to threaten violence against me, and it is downright dangerous that the Justice Department is targeting me for doing my job.
“These threats will not deter, distract, intimidate, or silence me,” she added.
Houlahan said in a social media post, “The six of us are being targeted not because we said something untrue, but because we said something President Trump and Secretary Hegseth didn’t want anyone to hear.”
Another lawmaker involved in the video, Sen. Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich., said Tuesday that she is under investigation by Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia and a close Trump ally.
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Speaking to reporters Wednesday before issuing his statement, Crow said Slotkin “is facing the exact same thing that all the members who filmed this video are facing right now. It’s the same situation that the Trump administration has decided to weaponize the Department of Justice to try to silence their political opponents and suppress dissent. But we are members of Congress, we will do our duty.”
Crow’s office said Pirro’s office contacted him last week seeking an interview about the video, which was released in November by six former military and intelligence community veterans now serving in Congress. The video urged service members not to comply with orders from Hegseth and Trump.
Asked for comment Wednesday, Pirro’s office said, “We do not confirm or deny the existence of an investigation.”
President Donald Trump criticized the lawmakers after the video’s release, accusing them of “seditious behavior” and saying their actions could be “punishable by death.” The following day, he said on conservative Brian Kilmeade’s radio show that he was “not threatening death” toward the lawmakers, while adding, “I think they’re in serious trouble.”
Crow and three other participants — Goodlander, Houlahan, and Rep. Chris Deluzio of Pennsylvania — said in a joint statement in November that the FBI had contacted the House and Senate sergeants-at-arms seeking interviews with the lawmakers involved, accusing Trump of “using the FBI as a tool to intimidate and harass Members of Congress.”
The sixth Democrat in the video, Sen. Mark Kelly of Arizona, a retired Navy captain, sued Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and the Defense Department on Monday over efforts to censure and demote him over his remarks in the video. The lawsuit called those actions “unlawful and unconstitutional.”
Kelly and Crow said this week that no FBI interviews have taken place yet.
