Gun Violence Victim Gabby Giffords Denounces Trump Threatening to Execute Her Husband: 'Dangerous'

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Source: Yahoo! News/MEDIAite

Thu, November 20, 2025 at 6:03 PM EST


Former Rep. Gabby Giffords (D-AZ), who was shot in the head in 2011, decried President Donald Trump’s threat to execute her husband, Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ), on Thursday. Giffords condemned Trump’s violent rhetoric and called it “dangerous.” “My husband @CaptMarkKelly is a 25-year Navy combat pilot veteran. He served our country with strength, courage, and integrity, dedicating his career to protecting us and upholding our constitution,” wrote Giffords on X, adding:

Today, the President of the United States called him a traitor and demanded he be executed. It is dangerous and wrong. Americans of all political beliefs need to stand up and say so.

Trump accused Kelly, along with five other Democrats, of “SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR, punishable by DEATH” after they put out a video urging military members not to follow “illegal orders.” Trump later reposted a social media user saying to “Hang them.”

Sen. Kelly also replied on social media, writing, “I’ve had a missile blow up next to my airplane, been shot at dozens of times by anti-aircraft fire, and launched into orbit — all for my country. I never thought I’d see a President call for my execution. Trump doesn’t understand the Constitution, and we’re all less safe for it.”

Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/gun-violence-victim-gabby-giffords-230349926.html

[Chasstev365]

1. My first thought when I hear his threat was Mark Kelly's wife Gabby Giffords was nearly killed by a rightwing loon

[Paladin]

2. Profound thanks, Gabby and Mark Kelly. (nt)

[callous taoboy]

3. No way this could be a dog-whistle to his MAGoons.

[Bayard]

4. trump isn't worthy to tie Kelly's shoes

He has diarrhea of the mouth, and doesn't care if it hurts/endangers somebody or not. These 6 Congress people should get round-the-clock protection, paid out of trump's salary.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

5. MaddowBlog-'In the old days, it was death': Trump rages again against Democratic military veterans

On Thursday, the president accused Democrats of “seditious behavior, punishable by DEATH!” On Friday, he kept the offensive going.

As Trump’s offensive against Democratic veterans extends into a second day, a thought:

“I’m not threatening death, but...” is the sort of line presidents should avoid. www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

— Steve Benen (@stevebenen.com) 2025-11-21T19:17:10.865Z

https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/old-days-was-death-trump-rages-democratic-military-veterans-rcna245165

Amid widespread concerns that Trump’s hysterics might put the Democratic veterans in danger, the president returned to the subject a day later during a Fox News Radio interview with Brian Kilmeade. It might’ve seemed like an opportunity for the Republican to walk back his rhetoric, but that apparently wasn’t part of his plan.

Trump on threatening members of Congress: “I'm not threatening death, but I think they're in serious trouble. In the old days, it was death.”

— The Bulwark (@thebulwark.com) 2025-11-21T17:12:16.100Z

.....For good measure, he added, “But in the old days, if you said a thing like that, that was punishable by death. What they said is, I mean, I don’t know about the modern-day things, because, you know, modern day is a lot softer.”

Trump concluded that the military veterans “broke the law,” though he didn’t explain which law was broken. (The president has a habit of defining “illegal” as “stuff I don’t like.”)

Right off the bat, it’s worth emphasizing that any sentence that begins, “I’m not threatening death, but…” is the sort of line a political leader shouldn’t deliver......

On Capitol Hill, Democratic Rep. Jason Crow of Colorado — a decorated military veteran who served in both Iraq and Afghanistan — is seeking a U.S. Capitol Police investigation into Trump for what he described as “intimidating, threatening, and concerning” threats the president made. Democratic Rep. Chrissy Houlahan of Pennsylvania, an Air Force veteran who also appeared in the video in question, told The New Republic’s Greg Sargent that she made a similar appeal to the Capitol Police.

Whether such an investigation will actually happen remains unclear, though if a regular person sent members of Congress a message accusing them of “SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR, punishable by DEATH!” it’s a safe bet law enforcement would follow up and knock on the sender’s door.