th<\/sup> 2019<\/i><\/p>\nIn an interview with George Stephanopoulos, Trump said, \u201cI think you might want to listen, there isn\u2019t anything wrong with listening. If somebody called from a country, Norway, [and said] \u2018we have information on your opponent\u2019 oh, I think I\u2019d want to hear it.\u201d<\/p>\n
An incredulous Stephanopoulos then asked what Trump would do is the country in question was China or Russia. Would he take the information, or call the FBI? Trump blandly replied, \u201cI think maybe you do both. It\u2019s not an interference, they have information \u2013 I think I\u2019d take it. If I thought there was something wrong, I\u2019d go maybe to the FBI\u2026 but when somebody comes up with \u2018oppo research\u2019, right, they come up with oppo research, \u2018oh let\u2019s call the FBI.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
The President of the United States just announced that he would be happy to let a hostile foreign power directly interfere with an American election. This despite the fact that he is very strongly suspected of having done exactly that during the 2016 campaign and is in an ever-deepening morass of investigation and scandal as a result.<\/p>\n
He\u2019s already been driven to claim executive privilege over documents already made public, ordered people to ignore subpoenas, and even tried to get the Supreme Court to rule that Congress could not investigate him.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s already far deeper and darker than Watergate ever was, and he\u2019s learned nothing from it. He just announced to the world that he would do it again, and suborn his own country in order to get dirt on a possible opposition candidate.<\/p>\n
We already know that Rudy Guiliani was planning to go to the Ukraine in order to get dirt, not on Joe Biden, but his son Hunter, to use as k<\/i>ompromat<\/i> against Biden.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s obvious this sort of filthy and unpatriotic behavior is his game plan for the upcoming election.<\/p>\n
Remarkably, some alleged Americans are already trying to excuse this. One guy on one of the cable yammerfests last night was arguing that proving intent was key to a successful prosecution of Trump, and that all his actions since 2015 didn\u2019t include strong evidence that he maliciously intended to violate the law.<\/p>\n
I hope the guy was talking about the conspiracy charges, where intent is key, since conspiracy by its nature usually involves criminal activity that hasn\u2019t happened yet, or cover up actions that might be embarrassing. If he was talking about the crimes that Trump has openly and blatantly committed, then it shows how corrupt and morally dissolute some in the legal profession have become. It would show the chasm between justice for the rich (\u201cProve he intended to do any harm when he broke the law\u201d) and justice for the poor (\u201cIgnorance of the law is no excuse.\u201d).<\/p>\n
It came on the heels of something that was, if anything, even viler. His love affair with Kim Jong Un, the vicious despot running North Korea, is well known. I guess it\u2019s part of some addle-pated effort to show that he has tamed Kim, and now that Kim is belled and leashed, they\u2019re best of buddies. It\u2019s not a very convincing performance, a middle-school performance by an alleged grown-up.<\/p>\n
Back in 2017, Kim had his half-brother murdered in a Thai airport by two women who sprayed VX compound in his face. It was both grotesque and ludicrous. Two years later, it emerged that Kim Jong Nam, the half-brother, was on his way to meet with a CIA operative, and in fact was secretly reporting to the CIA.<\/p>\n
For a President who welcomes interference by a hostile foreign power in US government, Trump was appalled that the US might interfere with North Korea\u2019s government. When a reporter asked him about the reports that Kim Jong Nam was working for the CIA, Trump appeared to be caught flat-footed. \u201cI don\u2019t know, I have not heard about that.\u201d<\/p>\n
Then he said, \u201cI saw the information about the CIA with respect to his brother or half brother, and I would tell him that would not happen under my auspices, that\u2019s for sure. I wouldn\u2019t let that happen under my auspices.\u201d<\/p>\n
Apparently shaken by this horrid example of American perfidy, Trump continued, \u201cI just received a beautiful letter from Kim Jong Un. I can\u2019t show you the letter, obviously, but it was very personal, very warm, very nice letter. North Korea, under his leadership, has great potential,\u201d<\/p>\n
It\u2019s difficult to gauge if Trump really wants to prevent US espionage against North Korea. He lies about everything, so there\u2019s no particular reason to suppose he\u2019s telling the truth now. But we can\u2019t really know. He\u2019s too random.<\/p>\n
But for North Korea, his words provided considerable aid and comfort.<\/p>\n
Now, here\u2019s the thing. Back in 1950, when North Korea attacked South Korea, the two halves of the country promptly declared war on each other. The US came in on S. Korea\u2019s side, as the Soviet Union and later China came in on N. Korea\u2019s side. The US involvement was fig-leafed as being a part of a United Nations action. Since the UN Charter forbade the organization from waging war, they called it a \u201cPolice Action\u201d instead. The death toll from this \u201cPolice Action\u201d both civilian and military, all sides, came to well over two million people. So let\u2019s not be stupid: it was a war. Period.<\/p>\n
It ended with a cease-fire armistice in 1953, but there never was a peace treaty. South and North Korea are still at war, and the US, by terms of their own treaty with S. Korea, are at war with N. Korea as well. North Korea is considered an enemy regime.<\/p>\n
The Constitution defines treason thusly: \u201cT<\/i>reason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court.<\/i>\u201d<\/p>\n
I\u2019m pretty sure more than two people saw Trump prattle on about his good buddy Kim Jong Un and promise to never let the US conduct intelligence operations against him. Given his feckless disregard for American security and willingness to shaft his own people, I wouldn\u2019t be in the least bit surprised if Trump revealed the identity of the CIA people Kim Jong Nam was reporting to. You know he\u2019s capable of doing such a thing. After all, he sent his thugish lawyer to the Ukraine to dig up dirt on a family member of a opposition candidate, called his own appointee to head the FBI a liar, and grandly announced he would commit the same felonies again in the next election. It\u2019s no outside the realm of possibility.<\/p>\n
But Congress can stop this traitor. They can do it right now, by opening formal impeachment hearings and putting the evidence of Trump\u2019s disloyalty and criminality out where Faux News can\u2019t sweep it under their carpet.<\/p>\n
But they must act quickly. There was already a serious incident in the Gulf yesterday, two tankers attacked and set ablaze. Iran will certainly be blamed, and it was most likely the US was actually behind the attacks. Oil prices are plunging, and Trump desperately needs a big war in order to distract and exploit the American tendancy to rally round the flag when war breaks out.<\/p>\n
Trump is not interested in America, and won\u2019t mind seeing millions of Americans risk their lives so he can avoid prison.<\/p>\n
Trump is a traitor. He needs to be tried for treason now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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