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🚨 MIC DROP: Sen. Tom Cotton Exposes Democrat Fear-Mongering as Generals Confirm Zero "Illegal Orders" 🚨In a high-stakes showdown at the Senate Armed Services Committee today, Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR) completely dismantled the "illegal orders" narrative being pushed by the radical left. During the confirmation hearing for two of our nation’s top military nominees, Cotton took the direct approach, asking point-blank if any of them had ever been ordered to break the law—silencing the critics in the room.Sen. Tom Cotton: I apologize I had to step out for a few other commitments, and I can't get back and be here for fewer than two minutes without hearing the Democrats talk about illegal orders, which has been much in the news as of late. So I asked General Gio—Geo—NORTHCOM Commander, I'm not quite sure how it's pronounced but that's the Arkansas pronunciation, whatever it is—if in his vast and storied career he had ever received an illegal order, and he said no. So, General Donovan, I would like to ask you, have you ever received an illegal order?Gen. Donovan: No, Senator.Sen. Tom Cotton: And you're a pretty high-speed Marine, as I understand it. You've been out on the front a lot in your lifetime. So from the time you were Lieutenant Donovan to the time now, where you've got three stars and you're about to add a fourth, no one has ever given you an illegal order?Gen. Donovan: No, Senator.Sen. Tom Cotton: General Rudd, you're a pretty high-speed soldier. I see a lot of impressive badges on your uniform. I think it's jumpmaster, military free-fall jumpmaster—more commonly known as HALO. I think I even see SCUBA, very rare in the Army, a ranger tab, a combat infantryman badge. In all of your vast military experience, have you ever received an illegal order?Gen. Rudd: No, Senator.Sen. Tom Cotton: Not even from Lieutenant Rudd as a quartermaster, all the way up to three-star general and now about to be four-star general. No one's ever given you an illegal order?Gen. Rudd: No, Senator.Sen. Tom Cotton: Well, it seems to me that our military does a very good job of training our troops from the time they enlist as privates or the time they commission as lieutenants all the way up to your level and to the commander-in-chief, not to issue illegal orders. Or, especially at your level, when you have lawyers hanging around you all the time, to seek their counsel, as anyone would. I bet, as some of the politicians on this dais understandably seek legal counsel in affairs related to their job. So I'm glad to hear from so many of our military’s senior leaders that our military has done such a good job of ensuring that our troops don't receive an illegal order.