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The Workplace of the Secretary of Struggle on Monday escalated its preliminary overview of Sen. Mark Kelly, D-Ariz., to a full command investigation, in keeping with a report.
The investigation into Kelly for “severe allegations of misconduct” has intensified, in keeping with a Pentagon official, first reported by Punchbowl Information, with a brand new probe along with the Division of Struggle’s Workplace of the Basic Counsel.
The division beforehand introduced it had launched a proper overview into allegations of misconduct in opposition to Kelly over a video calling on service members to “refuse unlawful orders.”
KELLY SHRUGS OFF TRUMP COURT-MARTIAL THREAT, SAYS GROWING UP IN TONY SOPRANO’S HOMETOWN MADE HIM ‘RESILIENT’
The Division of Struggle obtained info concerning probably illegal feedback made by Mark E. Kelly, in keeping with an announcement on Tuesday, Nov. 25. (Aaron Schwartz/CNP/Bloomberg by way of Getty Photos Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Name, Inc by way of Getty Photos)
A Struggle Division official confirmed to Fox Information Digital that the Workplace of the Secretary of Struggle is “escalating the preliminary overview of Captain Mark Kelly, USN (Ret.), to an official Command Investigation.”
“Retired Captain Kelly is at present underneath investigation for severe allegations of misconduct,” the official mentioned. “Additional official feedback will probably be restricted to protect the integrity of the proceedings.”
HEGSETH RIPS MARK KELLY’S POST ABOUT HIS SERVICE: ‘YOU CAN’T EVEN DISPLAY YOUR UNIFORM CORRECTLY’
Struggle Secretary Pete Hegseth listens as President Donald Trump speaks throughout a Cupboard assembly on the White Home, on Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2025. (Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AP)
Kelly mentioned in an announcement that “it ought to ship a shiver down the backbone of each patriotic American that the president and secretary of protection would abuse their energy to return after me or anybody this fashion.”
“It wasn’t sufficient for Donald Trump to say I ought to be hanged,” he continued. “It wasn’t sufficient for Pete Hegseth to threaten me with a court docket martial. Now they’re threatening all the things I fought and served for throughout twenty-five years within the U.S. Navy—all as a result of I repeated one thing each service member is taught.”
Kelly added that he’ll “preserve doing my job representing Arizona.”
“If Trump and Hegseth assume this can cease me from doing what I’ve performed daily of my grownup life—preventing for this nation—then they’ve bought the fallacious man. Tomorrow, and the subsequent day, I’ll preserve doing my job representing Arizona.”
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Senator Mark Kelly, a former Navy Captain, urged troops to refuse “unlawful orders” within the viral video. (Eric Lee/Bloomberg by way of Getty Photos)
Fox Information Digital has reached out Kelly’s workplace for remark.
