I guess the question before us now — courtesy of one Donald J. Trump — is whether Rep. Jason Crow, along with a few of his congressional friends, should be hanged for treason or should they be shot?
It reads like a joke, right?
Trump, Crow and an Army firing squad walk into a bar …
But it’s dead — and deadly — serious. Trump actually posted on his social media account that Crow, and five other Democratic legislators who all served either in the military or as intelligence officers, are “traitors to our country and should be ARRESTED AND PUT ON TRIAL.”
That was just the warmup. I mean, having his enemies arrested — and I guess Crow has emerged as a full-blown Trump nemesis — is what Trump typically does three times before chowing down a Big Mac for breakfast (See: Comey, James) .
Trump, who seems to be growing increasingly UNHINGED by the day, if not the hour, if not by the growing threat of the Epstein files being released, later posted that the so-called seditious act — making a video that Trump didn’t like because it suggested Trump was the actual threat to our country — was “punishable by DEATH.”
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SUBSCRIBEAnd for the coup de grace, he shared a post, saying, “HANG THEM GEORGE WASHINGTON WOULD!!”
I’d like to think that George Washington would use better grammar. But I’d also like to think that the Father of our Nation, who may or may not have been chopping down cherry trees in his youth, never hanged anyone on one.
You’d also like to think that the person who cautioned us to lower the rhetoric after Charlie Kirk’s assassination actually meant what he said. (OK, you might like to think that, but what the hell? Or is that why he was telling a female reporter to be “Quiet. Quiet, little piggy”?)
You probably heard what caused Trump to come out guns ablazin’ — or ropes a hangin’. Crow — along with Sens. Elissa Slotkin and Mark Kelly and Reps. Chris Deluzio, Maggie Goodlander and Chrissy Houlahan — put out a video reminding those in the military and intelligence community that the oath they took to defend the Constitution means they can and should “refuse illegal orders.”
That’s nothing more than a restatement of the actual law, which, as you may know, Trump regularly ignores and worse, whether in the ocean near Venezuela or the streets of, say, Chicago. But they did go a little further, in warning that “threats to our Constitution aren’t just coming from abroad, but from right here at home.”
Right here at home, of course, is somewhere near the Oval Office, which hasn’t yet been torn down but has been turned into a gilded house of mirrors. You could call the video poking the bear, if bears were, you know, orange. But if Crow and company were indeed poking, they got all the reaction they could hope for.
In an interview Friday morning, Crow told NPR that he took seriously what he called Trump’s death threat. And also those death threats from some of the more violent MAGA cultists that followed Trump threats.
I’ll quote what Crow said next at some length.
“I mean, you can’t have something like that come from the president of the United States and him tweet and retweet death threats from the Oval Office and not have people take that seriously. I mean, that is the environment that we’re in right now. When somebody like Donald Trump says something, there are unfortunately people who will act on it. And I know this well ’cause I also lived through the insurrection on January 6. I was trapped at the House gallery while I saw Trump supporters brutally beat and try to derail our democracy. So I’ve seen this happen before. This is, unfortunately, the environment that Donald Trump has created for us.”
For good measure, Crow added, “I will not be intimidated.”
No one would expect him to be. He was a hero on January 6th. He was a Bronze Star Army Ranger hero in Iraq and Afghanistan. And he has emerged, as Washington Post columnist David Ignatius put it, as a “voice for the angry middle.”
Ignatius, an influential moderate-leaning columnist, even discussed with David Axelrod, who guided Barack Obama’s presidential rise, whether Crow — who often emphasizes how Democrats need to speak directly to working-class voters — could be a potential candidate in 2028.
“The last House member to jump to the White House was James A. Garfield in 1880,” Axelrod said. “But in a wide-open race, Crow would be an intriguing candidate.”
I don’t know where Crow’s ambitions lie. If Michael Bennet becomes governor, Crow would be a strong candidate, along with Reps. Brittany Petterson and Joe Neguse, to replace Bennet in the Senate.
But this story is not just about Crow or even the Seditious Six. It’s about Trump’s growing authoritarianism. It’s about how his sycophants, especially press secretary Karoline Leavitt, twisted their words, saying, “They are literally saying to 1.3 million active duty service members to defy the chain of command, not to follow lawful orders.”
Which is, of course, not only a lie, but also an intentionally disingenuous attempt to reframe the question. Crow and company didn’t ask anyone to defy “lawful orders.” They reminded active duty service members that it was their duty not to follow “unlawful” orders. Not surprisingly, House Speaker Mike Johnson made the same lawful-unlawful, uh, mistake. Coincidence?
On Friday morning, Trump said he wasn’t calling for the execution of Crow and others, but said instead, “I think they’re in serious trouble. I would say they’re in serious trouble. I’m not threatening death, but I think they’re in serious trouble. In the old days, it was death. That was seditious behavior.”
To be Trump, or a Trumpist, is to be a liar.
But what do they call those who are brave enough to stand up for what is right?
I was discussing this question with a friend who reminded me of a Colorado war hero who did defy illegal commands. Cavalry Capt. Silas Soule refused the Nov. 29, 1864, order to attack the peaceful Cheyenne and Arapaho encampment at Sand Creek. He later testified before Congress about the massacre and against the infamous Col. John Chivington, who ordered the attack.
Soule had written a letter after the massacre to his friend Edward Wynkoop — does the name sound familiar? — saying he had told his troops “that any man who would take part in the murders, knowing the circumstances as we did, was a low lived cowardly son of a bitch.”
He threatened to shoot any of his men who participated. Instead, they tried to stop the massacre. Other troops in the attacking force also refused, and yet around 230 women, children and the elderly died that day, perhaps the most infamous in Colorado history.
Chivington threatened Soule, a longtime abolitionist and activist, with hanging. And on April 23, 1865, just days after Lincoln’s assassination, two assassins were waiting for Soule in an alley at the present-day intersection of 15th and Arapahoe. One shot him fatally in the head.
There’s a marker there now, honoring Soule’s life and death and his brave stand for truth and justice.
I don’t know if Crow knows Soule’s story, but I’d be surprised if he doesn’t. In any case, to be part of Trump’s Seditious Six — political opponents whom Trump carelessly and recklessly threatened to hang — is to honor his memory.
Mike Littwin has been a columnist for too many years to count. He has covered Dr. J, four presidential inaugurations, six national conventions and countless brain-numbing speeches in the New Hampshire and Iowa snow. Sign up for Mike’s newsletter.
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