A federal grand jury on Tuesday declined to indict Democratic lawmakers who posted a video urging service members and intelligence officials to disobey any illegal orders from the Trump administration, according to two people familiar with the matter.
The declination is a rebuke of the administration’s efforts to paint the six lawmakers — all of whom served in either the military or intelligence services — as dangerously undermining the president’s authority as commander in chief.
This is such a stupid take. Every time I hear someone say we HAD to drop nuclear bombs on them to make them stop. Its such horse shit. It was a show of force to show the USSR what the U.S. was capable of. Nothing more.