First in the Nation: A Courageous Editorial Board Calls for Trump’s Impeachment
American Democracy is under siege. The President of the United States is subverting the Constitution. One patriotic Editorial Board rises to the moment.
(This is PART 1 of 2)
American democracy is under siege. Yet, in the face of authoritarian assaults on our democracy and the well-being of Americans, the Editorial Boards of influential news organizations, such as the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal, express muted opinions that fail to adequately convey the danger and the harms of the second Trump administration - and are silent on the remedy of impeachment (and calls for resignation). The Founders would be appalled at such timidity.
The duty of the Fourth Estate is not only to inform but to defend the Constitution. Editorial Boards speak to their readers, the electorate, fellow members of the press, and to the elected officials who have a sworn oath to uphold and defend the Constitution. One mechanism to defend the Constitution is to advocate for impeachment. It appears that as of December 5, 2025 only one independent news organization has called for the impeachment of President Trump. That outlet is the Sentinel Colorado, a non-partisan, local news organization serving Aurora, Colorado.
The groundbreaking call for impeachment by the Sentinel is courageous, patriotic and also an indictment of the failure of leadership by other news organizations’ Editorial Boards. Defending the Constitution is not partisan.
What follows is the November 21, 2025, editorial by the Sentinel’s Editorial Board. It is reprinted here in its entirety with permission. Please read and share this link: https://sentinelcolorado.com/opinion/editorial-trumps-savage-call-for-executing-dem-vets-in-congress-warrants-impeachment/
EDITORIAL: Trump’s savage call for executing Dem vets in Congress warrants impeachment.
‘His behavior is not only reducing the presidency to a treacherous farce, he is rapidly dragging the Republican Party down with him’
by SENTINEL COLORADO EDITORIAL BOARD November 21, 2025
President Donald Trump’s latest descent into authoritarian delirium arrived with a “splat” Thursday when he publicly said Aurora Congressperson Jason Crow and five other Democratic lawmakers should face the death penalty for crimes of sedition.
The supposed crimes of these highly decorated and respected veterans? Posting a 90-second video urging U.S. service members to do exactly what their oath and the Uniform Code of Military Justice already requires: Refuse illegal orders.
Crow and the other five Democratic lawmakers, Sen. Elissa Slotkin, Sen. Mark Kelly, and Reps. Chris Deluzio, Maggie Goodlander, and Chrissy Houlahan, spoke plainly and accurately. They reminded troops that the Trump administration has been “pitting our uniformed military against American citizens.” They called on servicemembers to “refuse illegal orders” and “stand up for our laws.”
The message was neither radical nor unlawful. It was constitutionally protected speech pointing out U.S. law.
As a network of more than 300 national-security professionals later wrote, “only a restatement of what every officer and enlisted servicemember already knows. Illegal orders can and should be refused.
Nothing in the video encouraged troops to shirk lawful orders. U.S. courts, the UCMJ, and decades of military doctrine make clear that service members are obligated — not merely permitted — to refuse illegal commands.
This is not a political opinion. It is doctrine.
Yet Trump reacted with another episode of his increasingly worrisome tyrannical fury.
On his social-media platform, he blasted these members of Congress as “TRAITORS!!!” and demanded they be “LOCKED UP???” He called their conduct, “SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR, punishable by DEATH.”
Trump also amplified posts from his supporters calling to “HANG THEM.”
His press secretary even furthered the grotesque propaganda, saying the Democrats’ message “perhaps is punishable by law,” while Trump allies on Fox News branded the video as “insurrection.”
This is not even remotely defensible.
The Democrats’ message reiterated an uncontroversial truth.
And the message is warranted. Trump’s track record on subverting democracy and the law is long and increasingly alarming.
He has already been judged as guilty by bipartisan investigators. The Jan. 6 congressional committee, composed of both Republicans and Democrats, concluded after extensive investigation and public hearings that Trump incited and permitted the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol in an effort to overturn the 2020 election he lost.
Trump’s current tantrum about “sedition” is grotesque coming from someone whose own conduct has already been authoritatively described as the gravest assault on the peaceful transfer of power in American history.
The message of these six Democrats is not subversive. It is prudent.
The Trump administration has already attempted to deploy National Guard forces into U.S. cities for dubious “roles,” with courts halting many of these actions.
The Trump administration has already been admonished for refusing to comply with court orders in immigration cases.
And as cases regarding presidential power and domestic military deployment move through the courts, it is not difficult to imagine the day when the Supreme Court rules against Trump, and he refuses to comply.
Calling for the arrest of political opponents and fantasizing about their execution is the definition of authoritarian abuse.
These six lawmakers are decorated veterans, intelligence officers, and national-security professionals who “swore an oath to protect and defend the Constitution” and who declared they “will not be intimidated.”
Trump, however, is so consumed by rage and vengeance that he now wields the power of the presidency like a cudgel to threaten their lives because they have exposed his corruption and incompetence as commander in chief.
That alone is grounds for his resignation, and absent that, his impeachment and removal from office.
His behavior is not only reducing the presidency to a treacherous farce, he is rapidly dragging the Republican Party down with him.
Every member of Congress from both parties should make clear that calling for the execution of political opponents is an act of presidential depravity.
Congress should condemn the threats, denounce the rhetoric, and insist that a president who openly promotes executing lawmakers for expressing accurate legal information is unfit to serve.
Trump has repeatedly violated his oath of office and discarded the U.S. Constitution. This latest felony is beyond the pale and warrants his impeachment.
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This post is PART 1. The Media and Democracy Project interviewed the Publisher of the Sentinel, Dave Perry, about the Sentinel, its Editorial Board and his perspective on the role of news outlets in democracy. That interview (PART 2) is linked here.
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The Lame Duck Felon is a danger to all our Constitutional Rights -
He needs to be removed immediately.
Why are the Supreme Court, the US House of Representatives, and the US Senate not challenging the illegal and immoral actions of him and his ever bolder cronies?
His Gestapo-like Icemen are a danger to all citizens and immigrants.
WE are NOT afraid - there are more of us, and we now know how to counteract his destroying our rights to vote and especially to honestly RECORD our vote.
He CLEARLY cheated in the 2 December 2025 Tennessee election
Trump's arguing for the death penalty for these patriots should be reason enough to see that Trump should not be allowed to lead this country.