A federal grand jury in Washington, D.C. declined to indict Sens. Mark Kelly, D-Ariz., and Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich., on charges of seditious conspiracy Tuesday, according to a person familiar with the proceedings.
The prosecution was based on a video that Kelly, Slotkin and several other Democratic lawmakers released which urged members of the military and the intelligence community not to follow illegal orders. Slotkin and other members last week refused to cooperate with an investigation of their role in the video that the Justice Department appeared to launch last month.
Trump had blasted the lawmakers after the video was widely shared, and accused them of “seditious behavior” and said their communications with the military could be “punishable by death.” In a subsequent interview on the radio show of conservative host Brian Kilmeade, Trump said he was not threatening the lawmakers with death, but said: “I think they’re in serious trouble.”
On Thursday, Feb. 5, Slotkin announced in a social media post that she had sent a letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi and Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. attorney for Washington, D.C, alerting them that she would not comply with the Justice Department’s inquiries or their request that she sit for an interview about the video.
Carol Leonnig is a senior investigative reporter with MS NOW.
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