Karoline Leavitt: “Service members have a legal obligation under the US UCMJ to…”

“Actually, that's against the Uniform Code of Military Justice. It explicitly states, and I want to read this language precisely that Service members have a legal obligation under the US UCMJ to obey lawful orders and that orders are presumed to be lawful. You can't have a soldier out on the battlefield or conducting a classified order questioning whether that law, that that order is lawful or whether they should follow through.” (03:04–03:13)

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