The intelligence finding was briefed to President Donald Trump, and the White House’s National Security Council discussed the problem at an interagency meeting in late March, the officials said. Officials developed a menu of potential options — starting with making a diplomatic complaint to Moscow and a demand that it stop, along with an escalating series of sanctions and other possible responses, but the White House has yet to authorize any step, the officials said.
We always have people come in to specify that treason has a very specific meaning, because, for them, casual usage isn’t allowed. But this sequence of events seems to fit the definition of “giving aid and comfort to the enemy.” When Russia put bounties on US servicemen’s heads, they became our actual enemy. To me, it’s an act of war to target a country’s soldiers. Then, after that, he pushed to get Russia into the G8 summit, which seems like aid and comfort to me.
We have known this since before he overtook the office in January 2017. We knew this when he exhorted Russia to find Hillary Clinton’s “30,000 emails” and use them to interfere in our elections. Literally every single thing he has done with respect to Russia before and during his tenure in the Oval Office has been a French kiss to Putin.
Those who claim this is not formally treason are using a thin artful dodge. We haven’t issued a formal declaration of war since June 5, 1942, yet no one would seriously argue that we haven’t been at war with Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iran and others since then. Hell, we declare ourselves at “war” with drugs (to no avail). So I call bullshit on that.
By any reasonable definition, Trump is truly a traitor. We are in a war with Russia, among others, of disinformation and cyber attacks. Putin is winning handily with his assets in the Oval Office and the Republican-held Senate.
There is no higher crime or misdemeanor than to betray your country to benefit a hostile foreign actor. And now it appears Trump is happy to sacrifice the lives of American soldiers to Putin’s causes, too.
Don’t forget his extortion of Ukraine. Yes it ‘could’ have helped Trump to create dirt on political rivals (illegal as shit) but it would also have helped Russia by withholding help against Russian invasion in Ukraine.
Wonder who whispered in his ear…
Traitor. Pure and simple. Though Trump is too stupid to realize it.
Right, but until Russia was putting bounties on our troops, you could argue that they were rivals or competitors, not enemies. That’s hard to argue now.
