Slotkin responds to Trump threats: 'I just don't think this is the America we want'
Trump called the video sedition and threatened its participants with arrest and death.

SOURCE CHECK
TAP FOR WHYFOX 2 Detroit is an established local television newsroom with an identified reporter and a specific local reporting focus. The article attributes key claims and quotations, though the text gives limited information about its sourcing beyond Slotkin and the public posts.
- Source type — Established local-news outlet; local reporting provides relevant context.
- Editorial standards — Presented as a straight news report, with claims attributed to speakers.
- Author attribution — A reporter is named.
- Transparency — The story identifies the public statements and event it reports, but offers little detail about additional verification.
The article includes direct quotations and identifies the video, Trump’s posts, and Slotkin’s account of threats and an FBI inquiry. It offers useful context about the orders prompting the video, but relies heavily on Slotkin’s account and includes little independent or opposing perspective.
HOW WE SCORE ↗The article includes the lawmakers’ rationale and Trump’s threats, but most explanatory context and subsequent developments come from Slotkin. It does not include a response from Trump or an independent assessment of the legal questions.
- Counterarguments presented — Trump’s public denunciation is included, but no fuller response or defense of his actions is provided.
- Source diversity — The account relies chiefly on Slotkin and the statements in Trump’s posts.
- Loaded language — Strong terms appear mainly in attributed quotations rather than the reporter’s voice.
- Omitted context — The article does not independently examine the legal questions surrounding the orders or the FBI inquiry.
The article reports Slotkin’s response and quotes Trump’s threats without adopting either side’s claims as fact. Its language is largely descriptive and attributed.
- Language tone — Mostly descriptive language; the quoted charged language is attributed to Trump or Slotkin.
- Source selection — The article centers Slotkin’s account but also reproduces Trump’s stated response.
- Framing — The headline emphasizes Slotkin’s response, consistent with the article’s focus, without an explicit editorial verdict.
Sen. Elissa Slotkin defended a video urging service members not to follow unlawful orders after President Donald Trump threatened its participants with arrest and death. Slotkin said the response underscored why the lawmakers made the video.
Slotkin said she and five other members of Congress made the video after hearing concerns from enlisted service members about orders connected to National Guard deployments and U.S. strikes on boats in the Caribbean. In the video, she and the other lawmakers said service members could refuse illegal orders.
Trump called the video sedition and threatened its participants with arrest and death. Slotkin said her office had received thousands of death threats, including a bomb threat at her home, and that the FBI’s counterterrorism division had informed her it opened an inquiry into the lawmakers in the video. She said the inquiry and the president’s reaction reinforced the reason for making it.
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