Air Force Major Jason Watson—who was arrested on the steps of the U.S. Capitol Building last month while calling for President Trump’s impeachment—has been arrested again.

Watson was detained on Tuesday, just one day after an exclusive CNN interview in which he said the president was “violating the Constitution, breaking the law, [and] engaged in rampant corruption.” Watson is currently in pretrial confinement in Maryland based on “allegations of continued misconduct” according to the Air Force. It did not identify the specific misconduct allegations, although his attorney believes that his recent CNN appearance is to blame.

“What is happening with President Trump is not normal. He has failed us,” Watson told CNN’s Erin Burnett on Monday. “And not only is he a failure as president, he is flagrantly violating the Constitution, breaking the law, engaged in rampant corruption, and is killing Americans. And that is unacceptable to me and it should be unacceptable to all of us.”

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    4 hours ago

    Americans don’t have the president they want, but they have the president they deserve.

    Except of course people like this guy, who has actually tried to do something, but apparently nobody or too few are backing him up to make a difference.

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        2 hours ago

        Yes well that’s the thing with democracy, it kind of goes for all people whatever the election result may be.
        So Americans seen as a group deserve it, even if the individuals that tried to prevent it don’t.
        So USA as a society and a people deserve to get what they voted for, because in a democracy it is the result of what the people decided. And especially since it was so fucking obvious what it was they voted for.

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        3 hours ago

        Why? So you can dig up some whataboutism?