Sen. Mark Kelly Puts Donald Trump In His Place

Sen. Mark Kelly made It clear in an interview with Rachel Maddow that Donald Trump is the least of his concerns and the president picked the wrong guy to try to scare.

Mark Kelly has been shot at and ridden ships into space. Sen. Kelly has had to live through his wife being the target of a mass shooting and getting shot in the head, so it is not surprising that the ramblings and attacks of a nearly 80-year-old, twice-failed president don’t have him shaking in his shoes.

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When Trump ordered Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth to investigate Kelly for potential misconduct that could lead to the Arizona Senator’s court marshall, it wasn’t difficult to understand what the president was trying to do.

On the same day that two of Trump’s political prosecutions were bounced out of court on their ears, the administration decided to go after Sen. Kelly.

The administration keeps finding out that it doesn’t have the power that it thought it had, and then it responds with more gestures that appear to lack the power to back them up.

Rachel Maddow asked Sen. Kelly why Trump and Hegseth are coming after him, and the senator answered:

 I don’t know. We would have to ask him that question. It could be him, could be Pete Hegseth. I don’t know. You know, and I would’ve been really shocked if any other president, you know, did this. But when I saw that tweet today, it kind of sort of made sense. I mean, these two guys, they, they informed me of this in a tweet because this is not about the law.

This is about the media cycle and it’s about intimidation. And it’s almost the whole thing’s almost comical. Like how does reciting the UCMJ, how is that, which is the Uniform Code of Military Justice. We basically repeated the Uniform Code of Military Justice, and they’re saying that’s in violation of the Uniform Code of Military Justice.

It’s absurd.

Keep reading below to watch Mark Kelly interviewed by Rachel Maddow.