COUP INBOUND? Senator Warner: ‘The Uniformed Military May Help Save Us From This President’ and ‘Lame’ Hegseth

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Senator Mark Warner (D-Va.), the vice chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, on Wednesday appeared to encourage members of the United States military to rebel against their commander-in-chief.

“I think, in many ways, the uniformed military may help save us from this President and his lame people like Hegseth,” Warner said during an appearance on MSNOW, formerly MSNBC.

Warner has previously stated that the continued presence of Secretary Pete Hegseth in his role as Secretary of War is an embarrassment to the country.

“This guy has very little to zero credibility,” the Senator told the Morning Joe hosts, Wednesday. “I’ve called for his firing.”

He has also criticized Hegseth for failing to provide security briefings to Democrat lawmakers on military operations, a by product of the Trump administration’s reluctance to trust leak-prone Democrats with critical national security information.

The Virginia senator has called for a full Congressional investigation into Hegseth’s actions, including the controversial strikes against a drug-smuggling vessel in the Caribbean on September 2.

The Washington Post reported on Friday that Hegseth gave an order to “kill everybody” before the strikes on the “suspected drug boats.” After two men allegedly survived the initial strike, according to the Post’s sources, the mission commander ordered a second strike to take them out to comply with Hegseth’s directive. “The two men were blown apart in the water, the Post reported.

The Pentagon and White House have steadfastly defended the operation, asserting the goal was to ensure the boat was destroyed and the threat neutralized, rejecting claims that Hegseth ordered all survivors to be killed as “totally fabricated.”

During a cabinet meeting at the White House Tuesday, Hegseth emphasized that Navy Admiral Frank Bradley, who ordered the follow-up strike, had acted within his authority and made the “right call” to “sink the boat and eliminate the threat.”

“It was the right call. We have his back and the American people are safer because narco terrorists now know that you can’t bring drugs through water or land to the America,” he said.

Adm. Bradley is scheduled to provide a classified briefing to the senior members of the Senate and House Armed Services committees Thursday about the “double tap” strike and other related incidents.

The briefing is expected to address the Pentagon’s authorization of the second strike and the broader implications for military operations and rules of engagement.

“I expect to get straight answers from Admiral Bradley tomorrow and perhaps we can get to the bottom of this,” Warner said. “But if there has been misrepresentation on this and we put our soldiers and sailors in harms way,” he added. The senator claimed that he has been hearing from military families in Virginia that they are concerned troops are being put in a “potentially illegal situation.”

Democrats in recent days have not exactly been subtle in their messaging to the U.S. Armed Forces.

Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) stated on MSNOW last week,  “We shouldn’t count [the military] out as a check on abuses of power.” Swalwell made clear in his remarks that should Democrats retake the House and/or Senate, they will target those who followed the Trump administration’s orders.

“The days of the Republican majority are numbered. We are going into the majority in a year, and there will be consequences, there will be accountability,” he said.

These comments follow the release last month of a contentious Democrat-produced video that top Republican officials viewed as an incitement to insubordination or even insurrection against President Trump and Hegseth.

On November 18, a group of Democrat lawmakers with military or intelligence backgrounds, released a short video, titled “Don’t Give Up the Ship,”  urging active military personnel to “refuse illegal orders.”

Senator Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.),  Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.),  Rep. Chris Deluzio (D-Pa.), Rep. Maggie Goodlander (D-N.H.), Rep. Chrissy Houlahan (D-Pa.), and Rep. Jason Crow (D-Colo.) have since been dubbed “the Seditious Six” by President Trump.

“Each one of these traitors to our Country should be ARRESTED AND PUT ON TRIAL,” Trump fumed. “Their words cannot be allowed to stand – We won’t have a Country anymore!!! An example MUST BE SET,” Trump posted on Truth Social in response to the video.

To make his displeasure abundantly clear, he added: “SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR, punishable by DEATH!”

Stephen Miller, a senior adviser to the president, last Wednesday accused the lawmakers of “openly calling for insurrection.”

“Ten years after the Deep State Russia Hoax, top Democrats openly appeal to CIA and military officials to engage in rebellion against their Commander-in-Chief,” Miller posted on X. “Do not underestimate how dangerously radicalized the Democrat party has become.”