Stewart reminds Kelly that the Obama administration authorized drone strikes that killed American citizens (Credit: The Daily Show/Youtube)
Far-left comedian Jon Stewart openly confronted Democrat Senator Mark Kelly on The Daily Show, exposing the breathtaking hypocrisy at the core of today’s Democrat Party.
The controversy stems from a November 2025 video in which Kelly and five other Democratic lawmakers, all veterans or former intelligence officers, urged active-duty service members to refuse “illegal orders.”
The Pentagon, led by Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, and President Trump have characterized the video as “seditious.”
During the interview, Stewart pressed Kelly on whether recent U.S. military actions, including maritime strikes against drug-trafficking vessels, were actually illegal.
Kelly responded:
“It’s not complicated. If a reasonable person would think that this thing that they are asking me to do is illegal, you have an obligation. It’s not an option. You have an obligation not to follow those orders.”
But when Stewart asked the obvious follow-up, are these strikes actually illegal?, Kelly suddenly hedged.
Kelly admitted the government has a “complicated legal rationale,” reportedly spanning 40 pages, and conceded the legality is “questionable at best.”
He even acknowledged the ever-shifting justifications: fentanyl, cocaine, regime change, oil — whatever excuse fits the moment.
That is when Stewart delivered the devastating reality check.
Stewart reminded Kelly and the audience that under the Obama administration, the U.S. government carried out extrajudicial drone strikes that killed an American citizen, a fact that Democrats now desperately try to memory-hole.
Jon Stewart is highlighting the case of Anwar al-Awlaki (and his 16-year-old son, Abdulrahman al-Awlaki).
Stewart used this historical context to challenge the consistency of Senator Mark Kelly’s recent stance on military ethics and “illegal orders.”
Anwar al-Awlaki was an American-born Islamic cleric (born in New Mexico) who the Obama administration identified as a key recruiter for al-Qaeda.
In September 2011, President Obama authorized a drone strike in Yemen that killed Anwar al-Awlaki. This was the first time since the Civil War that the U.S. government intentionally targeted and killed an American citizen without a trial or formal charges.
Two weeks later, another drone strike killed his son, 16-year-old Abdulrahman al-Awlaki (also a U.S. citizen), while he was eating dinner at an outdoor restaurant. The administration later called his death a “mistake.”
Senator Kelly is currently urging the military to scrutinize and potentially defy “illegal orders” from the Trump administration (such as strikes on narcoterrorist boats or domestic deployments).
Stewart implied that when the Obama regime was setting the precedent for executing American citizens via “kill lists” without due process, there was no similar call for defiance or public outcry from the mainstream Democrat establishment.
One X user blasted the far-left and Kelly’s hypocrisy, stating, “When Obama vaporizes an American citizen without due process, they fabricate forty pages of bureaucratic cover to justify the execution. When Trump exercises lawful command, they incite mutiny. They do not defend the Constitution. They defend their monopoly on violence.”
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