Eric Swalwell says military can be a 'check' on Donald Trump to 'save us'

[mystery-ak]

Eric Swalwell says military can be a 'check' on Donald Trump to 'save us'
Six Democratic lawmakers urged service members to 'refuse illegal orders' from the president in a video
By Lindsay Kornick Fox News
Published November 25, 2025 8:26pm EST

California gubernatorial candidate and Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell claimed that members of the military are telling him that they can be a "check" on President Donald Trump.

On Don Lemon's show Monday, Swalwell discussed the controversy surrounding a video of six Democratic lawmakers urging service members to "refuse illegal orders" from Trump.

The Department of War later announced on X that it launched a formal review into allegations of misconduct against Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly, a retired Navy captain, for appearing in the video.

Swalwell argued that the Trump administration "told on" itself by going after Kelly for his call to resist "illegal orders" and revealed that some service members have been behaving as a "check" on the president.

"What gives me hope, and I talk to service members all the time, they tell me that I don't appreciate enough, and the public doesn't appreciate enough that while Congress is not a check on the president anymore, and the judiciary at the Supreme Court is hardly a check, military members have told me, ‘We can be a check,'" Swalwell said.

He continued, "They’re essentially saying, ‘We’re not going to betray our oath to the Constitution because this guy tells us to.’ While it's not codified that way—they're not a branch of government on their own—their honor and integrity might just save us."

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https://www.foxnews.com/media/eric-swalwell-says-military-can-check-donald-trump-save-us

[Kamaji]

More sedition

[DefiantMassRINO]

What a d!ck.  His plan to save 'democracy' is mass insubordination amongst active military ranks.  Civilian Dem officials are crossing a very dangerous line encouraging enlisted members to defy (legal) orders.

It is not the military's job to 'preserve democracy'.  That's the job of vigilant civilians.

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Eric Swalwell Claims Military Members Are Privately Telling Him They Will Keep Trump in ‘Check’
By Rusty Weiss | 7:00 AM on November 26, 2025

California gubernatorial candidate and Democrat Rep. Eric Swalwell (CA-14) claims that military members have privately confided in him plans to serve as a "check" to any orders issued by President Trump, suggesting they could defy their superiors.

The idea that service members are secretly huddling with a congressman who can't bench press above 135 and whose top athletic feat was having to retire from soccer after breaking both of his thumbs is specious at best.

That said, his remarks are an attempt to keep the sedition train rolling in the wake of a video from six Democratic lawmakers encouraging military members to defy orders from their superiors.

Swalwell, who apparently is so strapped for time that he had to partake in an interview with Don Lemon while riding as a passenger in his car, discussed suggestions that the Trump administration is "telling on themselves" by going after Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) for taking part in the video.

But lo, there are leftist heroes amongst the military who allegedly want to heed Democrats' advice to defy wholly imagined "illegal orders." And they're running to the California lawmaker to let him know.

"What gives me hope, and I talk to service members all the time," Swalwell claimed without evidence. "They tell me that I don't appreciate enough and the public doesn't appreciate enough that while Congress is not a check on the president anymore, and the judiciary at the Supreme Court is hardly a check, military members have told me, ‘We can be a check.'"

"They’re essentially saying, ‘We’re not going to betray our oath to the Constitution because this guy tells us to,'" he added. "While it's not codified that way — they're not a branch of government on their own— their honor and integrity might just save us."

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https://redstate.com/rusty-weiss/2025/11/26/eric-swalwell-claims-military-members-are-secretly-telling-him-they-plan-to-keep-trump-in-check-n2196571

[Smokin Joe]

These idiots are acting like Trump had issued orders to wipe out neighborhoods or nuke NYC.
The problem with that is that the idiots who voted these idiots in, will likely think there is something, some evil plot thwarted by their idiots, even though none ever existed except in the paranoid pools of the festering fever swamps they call a mind.