Mark Kelly skewers Trump over his lack of service in response to Hegseth's retirement threat

Sen. Mark Kelly fired back at President Donald Trump, after Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth threatened to censure and strip retirement benefits from the decorated Navy veteran and astronaut.

Hegseth took the rare step of launching proceedings that could reduce Kelly’s retired rank and pension over a November video in which Kelly and other Democrats urged service members to refuse unlawful orders, a message the Pentagon called “seditious.”

Kelly didn’t hold back mocking President Donald Trump for dodging military service, highlighting Trump’s five draft deferments during the Vietnam War.

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