President Donald Trump shared a post from Glenn Beck that laid out the specific law he was “looking for” after he accused Democrats of “seditious behavior.”
After a group of Democratic lawmakers appeared in a video posted by Sen. Elissa Slotkin, urging military and intelligence community members to ignore illegal orders from the commander-in-chief, Trump accused them of sedition, charging in one post that the crime could be “punishable by death.”
While his post sent the left over a cliff in outrage, Beck shared on X that a section of the United States code clearly addresses behavior related to sedition, treason, and any subversive activities. The president shared the conservative commentator’s post on Truth Social.
According to 18 U.S.C. § 2387 addresses anyone with intentions “to interfere with, impair, or influence the loyalty, morale, or discipline of the military or naval forces of the United States.”
The law states the punishment for anyone who “advises, counsels, urges, or in any manner causes or attempts to cause insubordination, disloyalty, mutiny, or refusal of duty by any member of the military or naval forces of the United States,” or anyone who “distributes or attempts to distribute any written or printed matter which advises, counsels, or urges insubordination, disloyalty, mutiny, or refusal of duty by any member of the military or naval forces of the United States.”
Any such person “Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both, and shall be ineligible for employment by the United States or any department or agency thereof, for the five years next following his conviction.”
We want to speak directly to members of the Military and the Intelligence Community.
The American people need you to stand up for our laws and our Constitution.
Don’t give up the ship. pic.twitter.com/N8lW0EpQ7r
— Sen. Elissa Slotkin (@SenatorSlotkin) November 18, 2025
“We know you are under enormous stress and pressure right now. Americans trust their military, but that trust is at risk,” the Democratic lawmakers said in the video. “This administration is pitting our uniformed military and intelligence community professionals against American citizens. Like us, you all swore an oath to protect and defend this Constitution…. Our laws are clear. You can refuse illegal orders. You must refuse illegal orders.”
In addition to sharing Beck’s post, Trump has filled his social media feed with numerous other reposts of accounts calling out the Democrats and accusing them of sedition. In an all-caps post, the president blasted the lawmakers for making the rounds on “fake news networks” to defend their behavior and play the victim.
“THE TRAITORS THAT TOLD THE MILITARY TO DISOBEY MY ORDERS SHOULD BE IN JAIL RIGHT NOW, NOT ROAMING THE FAKE NEWS NETWORKS TRYING TO EXPLAIN THAT WHAT THEY SAID WAS OK. IT WASN’T, AND NEVER WILL BE!” he wrote. “IT WAS SEDITION AT THE HIGHEST LEVEL, AND SEDITION IS A MAJOR CRIME. THERE CAN BE NO OTHER INTERPRETATION OF WHAT THEY SAID!”
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Originally from New York, Powers graduated from New York University and eventually made her way to sunny South Florida. Powers also contributes to BizPac Review.
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