President Donald Trump on Saturday purported that Democrats who urged the military to defy illegal orders engaged in "sedition at the highest level" and "should be in jail right now."

This comes after one of the lawmakers who appeared in the video calling on troops to ignore unlawful orders, Michigan Sen. Elissa Slotkin, was targeted with a bomb threat just days after the clip and Trump's subsequent statements suggesting the Democrats be executed.

In a Truth Social post on Saturday, Trump argued that the "traitors" who appeared in the video "should be in jail right now, not roaming the fake news networks trying to explain what they said was OK."

"It wasn't, and never will be!" he claimed. "It was sedition at the highest level, and sedition is a major crime. There can be no other interpretation of what they said!"

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Trump initially responded to the video message by saying, "SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR, punishable by DEATH!" He also shared a post from another account that said, "Hang them George Washington would."

The White House and the president himself later attempted to walk back his comments, saying he did not wish to execute the Democrat lawmakers.

In another post on Saturday, Trump alleged that "many great legal scholars" agree with his position that "the Democrat traitors that told the military to disobey my orders, as president, have committed a crime of serious proportion!"

Slotkin, who previously worked at the CIA and Defense Department, shared the video on Tuesday of herself and other Democrat lawmakers who formerly served in the military and intelligence community encouraging troops and members of the intelligence community to ignore illegal orders from officials.

"This administration is pitting our uniformed military and intelligence community professionals against American citizens," the lawmakers said. "Like us, you all swore an oath to protect and defend this Constitution. Right now, the threats coming to our Constitution aren’t just coming from abroad but from right here at home. Our laws are clear. You can refuse illegal orders. You must refuse illegal orders. No one has to carry out orders that violate the law or our Constitution."

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Other lawmakers in the video included Sen. Mark Kelly of Arizona and Reps. Chris Deluzio and Chrissy Houlahan of Pennsylvania, as well as Reps. Maggie Goodlander of New Hampshire and Jason Crow of Colorado.

Trump administration officials and other Republicans criticized the video, which affirms that refusing unlawful orders is a standard part of military protocol.

Slotkin's office said on Friday that police responded to her Michigan home following a bomb threat, but that she was not home at the time.

U.S. Capitol Police told her that she would have security at all hours of the day.

"We’ve got law enforcement out in front of my house," she told MS Now. "It changes things immediately. And leadership climate is set from the top. And if the president is saying you should be hanged, then we shouldn’t be surprised when folks on the ground are going to follow suit and say even worse."

The lawmakers in the video have vowed not to back down despite the threats.

"What’s most telling is that the President considers it punishable by death for us to restate the law. Our servicemembers should know that we have their backs as they fulfill their oath to the Constitution and obligation to follow only lawful orders. It is not only the right thing to do, but also our duty," they said in a joint statement on Thursday.

"In these moments, fear is contagious, but so is courage. We will continue to lead and will not be intimidated," the statement added.

A Texas A&M committee ruled that the university’s decision to fire a professor after a student was removed from class for objecting to a children’s literature lesson on gender identity was unjustified.

A video recorded earlier this year by a female student showed her asking Melissa McCoul, a senior lecturer in the English department, if teaching gender ideology is legal, pointing to President Donald Trump’s executive orders aimed at removing the subject from higher education.

The internal committee ruled that the university failed to follow proper procedures and did not prove there was good cause to terminate McCoul. The committee unanimously voted this week that "the summary dismissal of Dr. McCoul was not justified."

The university said in a statement that interim President Tommy Williams has received the committee's nonbinding recommendation and will make a decision after reviewing it.

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McCoul's lawyer, Amanda Reichek, said the dispute is likely to end up in court because the university appears to want to continue fighting, and the interim president is facing similar political pressure.

"Dr. McCoul asserts that the flimsy reasons proffered by A&M for her termination are a pretext for the University’s true motivation: capitulation to Governor Abbott’s demands," Reichek said in a statement.

Gov. Greg Abbott and other Republicans had called for her firing after watching the video.

"Fire the professor who acted contrary to Texas law," the governor wrote on X in September.

The video led to public criticism of university president Mark Welsh, who later resigned, although he did not offer a reason and never mentioned the video in his resignation announcement.

State Rep. Brian Harrison said in a statement to Fox News Digital at the time that the "liberal president of Texas A&M must be fired and all DEI and LGBTQ indoctrination defunded."

The opening of the video posted by Harrison on social media showed a slide titled "Gender Unicorn" that noted different gender identities and expressions. 

Students in the class told The Texas Tribune that they were discussing a book called "Jude Saves the World," which is about a middle school student who comes out as nonbinary. Several other books included in the course also touched on LGBTQ+ issues.

After a back-and-forth dispute about the legality of teaching the lessons on gender identity, McCoul asked the student to leave the class. Harrison also posted other recordings of the student's meeting with Welsh that showed the then-university president defending McCoul's instruction.

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Welsh said when McCoul was fired that he learned she had continued teaching content in a children’s literature course "that did not align with any reasonable expectation of standard curriculum for the course." He also said the course content did not match its catalog descriptions.

"If we allow different course content to be taught from what is advertised, we let our students down. When it comes to our academic offerings, we must keep our word to our students and to the state of Texas," he said in September, noting that leaders in the College of Arts and Sciences were found to have approved plans to continue teaching course content that was not consistent with the course’s published description.

Earlier this month, the Texas A&M Regents issued a new policy stating that no academic course "will advocate race or gender ideology, or topics related to sexual orientation or gender identity" unless approved in advance by a campus president.

Fox News Digital reached out to Texas A&M for comment.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.