Posted on 03/27/2017 2:22:56 PM PDT by COUNTrecount
TEL AVIV – Over the past week, numerous Democratic Party operatives and establishment pundits have used the word “treason” in a seeming attempt to smear President Donald Trump over unproven claims of collusion with Russia during the 2016 presidential campaign.
On Monday, Hillary Clinton’s former campaign manager, Robby Mook, demanded Trump’s campaign aides be “prosecuted for treason” if evidence emerges of coordination with Moscow during the recent presidential campaign.
One day later, on Tuesday, Michael Winship, senior writer for BillMoyers.com, wrote an opinion piece titled, “‘There’s a Smell of Treason in the Air’” Winship is a former senior writing fellow at the progressive advocacy group Demos, which is financed by billionaire George Soros.
Winship’s piece, which was republished at the Huffington Post, argued that last Monday’s House Intelligence Committee hearing that probed alleged ties between the Trump administration and Russia was “proof positive of the absolute need for both a special prosecutor and an independent, bipartisan commission with subpoena power to conduct a full investigation” on the matter.
Last week, this reporter found serious problems with the main anti-Trump charges at the hearing, delivered in opening remarks by Rep. Adam Schiff, the ranking Democrat on a House intelligence committee. The charges included wild conspiracy theories and heavy reliance on a questionable source.
The title of Winship’s article, meanwhile, comes from a quote in the Washington Post last week provided by presidential historian Douglas Brinkley, who told the newspaper, “There’s a smell of treason in the air. Imagine if J. Edgar Hoover or any other FBI director would have testified against a sitting president? It would have been a mindboggling event.”
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They were saying this “treason” crap all over Twitter throughout the 2016 campaign too. It reeks of desperation.
Because they say so.
The democrats have gotten completely disgusting, what with the Russia nonsense and voting uniformly against all of Trump’s appointments.
However, if they force the Republicans to use the Nuclear Option to shoehorn Neil Gorsuch onto the court, that may be their undoing. The smell of that will still be there in November of 2018.
The Democrats want a civil war.
Obama was obviously a serial traitor, but never a word from anybody about him.
They should be careful throwing around that word.
It may come back to haunt them............................
The only people committing treason are Clapper , Comey, all leakers, all democrats
None Dare Call it Treason
Accuse others of what you are doing! Classic Alinsky
What Good Can a Handgun Do Against an Army.....?
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Jane Fonda ... patroit
Donald Trump ... traitor
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only in liberals diluted minds!
I wonder what it would be like to tell these people that they are among the most boring in the world to listen to. I would rather watch a rerun of “The Edge of Night” or any other 1970s daytime soap before I’d pay attention to these people and their puerile accusations of treason.
What? Did he fund terrorist enemies of the United States, perhaps the Muslim Brotherhood, al Qaeda, and ISIS?
String anyone who advocated or did that up with my blessing.
Barack Obama, please pick up the Yellow Lemon phone.
This is laughable, coming from someone whose emails while SoS seemed to be available to anyone in the world to read.
Projection.
SOP for Leftists.
About a year after Hurricane Katrina he produced a massive book about how the hurricane was handled...how can that be considered "history"?
[Obama was obviously a serial traitor, but never a word from anybody about him.]
Absolutely. He was here to destroy; all the while pandering to useful idiots. And it worked, too. I never would have believed 1/2 of the public was stupid enough to vote for destroying their own country. I was incorrect in my assessment. The stupidity was amazing.
Treason isn't just something that pizzes you off.
Treason is a very specific charge and it's hard to prove.
The framers of our constitution made it that way for a very personal reason.
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