{"id":413275,"date":"2025-11-29T17:24:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T17:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/413275\/"},"modified":"2025-11-29T17:24:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T17:24:13","slug":"white-house-blasts-news-outlets-for-coverage-of-illegal-orders-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/413275\/","title":{"rendered":"White House blasts news outlets for coverage of ‘illegal orders’ video"},"content":{"rendered":"

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks with members of the media following a call with military service members, on Thanksgiving, in Palm Beach, Florida, U.S., Nov. 27, 2025. <\/p>\n

Anna Rose Layden | Reuters<\/p>\n

The White House<\/a> on Friday evening named the Boston Globe, CBS News and The Independent as “media offender of the week,” blasting their coverage of a video released by Democratic lawmakers telling the U.S. military that they can disobey illegal orders.<\/p>\n

The Boston Globe, CBS News and The Independent did not immediately respond to a request for comment from CNBC.<\/p>\n

Last week, six Democrats, all with military or national security experience, released a video<\/a> reminding service members that they have the right to refuse illegal orders. President Donald Trump<\/a> accused them of “seditious behavior” and said that in “the old days” that was “punishable by death.” <\/p>\n

The FBI<\/a> is now seeking to interview Sen. Mark Kelly and the other Democrats featured in the video.<\/p>\n

The White House has denied that Trump has ever issued illegal orders. However, some experts have said the Pentagon’s deadly campaign against alleged drug traffickers in the Caribbean is unlawful. <\/p>\n

On Friday, the Washington Post reported<\/a> that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth verbally ordered to kill all crew members on a suspected drug boat. Rep. Seth Moulton, D-Mass., a Marine Corps veteran, told the newspaper that Americans will eventually be prosecuted for this, “either as a war crime or outright murder.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"U.S. President Donald Trump speaks with members of the media following a call with military service members, on…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":413276,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[9167,76,64,81,77,69,51,50,80,52],"class_list":{"0":"post-413275","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-breaking-news-business","9":"tag-breaking-news-politics","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-business-news","12":"tag-donald-j-trump","13":"tag-donald-trump","14":"tag-headlines","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-politics","17":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115634154111377546","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=413275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413275\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/413276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}