{"id":2514187,"date":"2025-11-24T18:59:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T23:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gallego-rips-pentagon-over-mark-kelly-investigation-f-you\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T19:01:49","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T00:01:49","slug":"gallego-rips-pentagon-over-mark-kelly-investigation-f-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gallego-rips-pentagon-over-mark-kelly-investigation-f-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Gallego rips Pentagon over Mark Kelly investigation: &#8216;F*** you&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fgallego-rips-pentagon-over-mark-kelly-investigation-f-you%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2514187&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Senator Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) strongly condemned the Pentagon&#8217;s inquiry into fellow Arizona Senator Mark Kelly. The Department of Defense launched a thorough review of Kelly following his participation in a video wiht six other Democratic lawmakers,in which they encouraged military personnel to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-scott-jennings-chews-up-dems-on-genuinely-shocking-call-for-military-to-disobey-orders-foment-insurrection-in-the-ranks-of-the-military\/\" title=\"Watch: Scott Jennings Chews up Dems on Genuinely Shocking Call for Military to Disobey Orders - &#039;Foment Insurrection in the Ranks of the Military&#039;\">disobey illegal orders<\/a>.Gallego labeled the investigation &#8220;f***ing insane&#8221; and vocally defended Kelly, calling him a patriot who was simply reminding service members of thier rights. Secretary of the Army Pete Hegseth criticized the video, referring to the lawmakers as the &#8220;Seditious Six&#8221; and describing their actions as reckless and false. Mark Kelly responded by affirming his commitment to the Constitution and refusing to be intimidated by the inquiry. Gallego also criticized Hegseth personally, accusing him of cowardice for following the investigation order. The <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >controversy sparked sharp reactions<\/a>, including from former President donald Trump, who condemned the video as seditious behavior.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Gallego tells Pentagon &lsquo;f*** you and your investigation&rsquo; over Mark Kelly inquiry<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2413064\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>Sen. <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/Ruben-Gallego\/\">Ruben Gallego<\/a> (D-AZ) called the Pentagon&rsquo;s investigation into his seatmate, Sen. <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/mark-kelly\/\">Mark Kelly<\/a> (D-AZ), &ldquo;f***ing insane&rdquo; in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The Department of War announced a &ldquo;<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/defense\/3896948\/pentagon-announces-thorough-review-mark-kelly-illegal-orders-video\/\">thorough review<\/a>&rdquo; of Kelly, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/u-s-navy-not-ready-for-war-weathering-a-crisis-of-woke-leadership-and-culture-report\/\" title=\"U.S. Navy Not Ready For War, \u2018Weathering A Crisis\u2019 Of Woke Leadership And Culture: Report\">retired naval officer<\/a>, on Monday following his participation in a <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/defense\/3892669\/democratic-veterans-congress-unlawful-orders\/\">video<\/a> with six other Democratic lawmakers in which they <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bidens-air-force-nominee-believes-its-naive-for-service-members-to-doubt-the-militarys-institutional-racism\/\" title=\"Biden\u2019s Air Force Nominee Believes It\u2019s \u2018Naive\u2019 For ... To Doubt The Military\u2019s \u2018Institutional Racism\u2019\">encouraged service members<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-seditious-sen-slotkin-cant-point-to-illegal-military-order-from-trump-so-she-brings-up-a-tom-cruise-movie-instead-can-dems-get-any-more-disgraceful\/\" title=\"Watch: ... .... Slotkin Can&#039;t Point to Illegal Military Order from ..., So She Brings up a Tom Cruise Movie Instead - Can Dems Get Any More Disgraceful?\">disobey unspecified &#038;ldquo<\/a>;illegal orders.&rdquo; In response to the War Department&rsquo;s announced investigation into Kelly, Gallego took to X to defend his fellow Arizona senator.<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/senate\/3897047\/ron-johnson-trump-no-position-deliver-tariff-rebate-checks\/\">Senate Republican warns Trump is in no position to deliver $2,000 tariff rebate checks<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/senate\/3896430\/bessent-trump-scrapping-filibuster-its-time\/\">Bessent sides with Trump on scrapping Senate filibuster: &#8216;It&#8217;s time&#8217;<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/senate\/3896386\/rand-paul-laments-mtg-resignation\/\">Rand Paul laments MTG resignation: &#8216;Sad to see her voice go away&#8217;<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>&ldquo;Mark Kelly is a patriot. There&rsquo;s no reason why they&rsquo;re going after him. He was doing his duty and just reminding people about their rights as service members. Secretary Hegseth, all these guys, f*** you guys; you&rsquo;re not gonna be able to scare us,&rdquo; Gallego said, quoting the Pentagon&rsquo;s announcement with &ldquo;F*** you and your investigation.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Kelly and fellow Democratic veterans Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) and Reps. <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/3895703\/jason-crow-audio-actual-threats-trump-democrats-sedition-post\/\">Jason Crow<\/a> (D-CO), Chris Deluzio (D-PA), Maggie Goodlander (D-NH), and Chrissy Houlahan (D-PA) each made headlines last week for the videom in which they urged military members to refuse illegal orders and said there are domestic &ldquo;threats to our Constitution.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>President Donald Trump pounced on the move, <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3893490\/trump-blasts-seditious-democratic-veterans-truth-social\/\">blasting the video<\/a> on Truth Social as &ldquo;SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR, punishable by DEATH!&rdquo; Trump&rsquo;s post led to blowback from lawmakers who <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SenFettermanPA\/status\/1991558098239254854?s=20\">condemned<\/a> the violent rhetoric.<\/p>\n<p>War Secretary Pete Hegseth called the Democratic lawmakers who made the video the &ldquo;Seditious Six&rdquo; on Monday. Hegseth called the video &ldquo;despicable, reckless, and false&rdquo; and underscored that the Department would be investigating Kelly.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;As was announced, the Department is reviewing his statements and actions, which were addressed directly to all troops while explicitly using his rank and service affiliation&mdash;lending the appearance of authority to his words,&rdquo; Hegseth <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/PeteHegseth\/status\/1993008532187148582?s=20\">said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Kelly circled back to his commitment to service, writing <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SenMarkKelly\/status\/1993025671757807746?s=20\">on X<\/a> that he would not be &ldquo;intimidated&rdquo; by the investigation. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I swore an oath to the Constitution in 1986. I&rsquo;ve upheld it through 25 years of service and every day since I retired. If Trump&rsquo;s trying to intimidate me, it won&rsquo;t work. I&rsquo;ve given too much to our country to be silenced by bullies who care more about power than the Constitution,&rdquo; Kelly <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/CaptMarkKelly\/status\/1993053146780967048?s=20\">wrote on X<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/defense\/3896948\/pentagon-announces-thorough-review-mark-kelly-illegal-orders-video\/\">PENTAGON ANNOUNCES &lsquo;THOROUGH REVIEW&rsquo; INTO MARK KELLY OVER &lsquo;ILLEGAL ORDERS&rsquo; VIDEO<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In his defense of Kelly, Gallego dissed the investigation in his series of <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RubenGallego\/status\/1993019769168204008?s=20\">X posts<\/a> and ripped Hegseth in an <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/atrupar\/status\/1993073474185654425?s=20\">appearance<\/a> on CNN.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;You will never, ever even be half the man that Sen. Kelly is. You, sir, are a coward. And the fact that you are following this order from the president shows how big of a coward you are,&rdquo; Gallego said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gallego blasts Pentagon&#8217;s probe into Mark Kelly as &#8220;insane<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3976,"featured_media":2514188,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/AP25131837117159.webp?w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651,538],"tags":[50410,16103,3976,35898,3761],"class_list":["post-2514187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","category-washington-examiner","tag-controversy-2","tag-gallego","tag-investigation","tag-mark-kelly","tag-pentagon"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/AP25131837117159.webp?w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2514187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3976"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2514187"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2514187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2514191,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2514187\/revisions\/2514191"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2514188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2514187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2514187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2514187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}