White House says Trump wasn’t calling for execution of Democrat lawmakers

The White House insisted Thursday that President Donald Trump was not calling for Democratic lawmakers to be executed for a video urging troops to defy “illegal orders,” despite his post calling their comments “SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR, punishable by DEATH.” #trump Subscribe: http://smarturl.it/AssociatedPress Read more: https://apnews.com​ This video may be available for archive licensing via https://newsroom.ap.org/home