Watching the Trump-Putin Summit Press Conference in Helsinki, Finland, brings confirmation that the 45th President of the United States has committed, and continues to commit treason, favoring the Russian Federation over the national security interests of the United States.
Putin won just by the fact that Trump agreed to meet him, with Russia having a weak economy and suffering from economic sanctions put upon his nation by the international community after the invasion of the Crimean area of Ukraine in 2014.
Putin leads a country which has a very small Gross National Product, and has nuclear weapons that are a fraction of what the United States has, and yet Trump makes “friends” and “trusts” Putin, while denouncing Theresa May, Emmanuel Macron, Angela Merkel, and Justin Trudeau.
Trump calls the European Union our “foe”, and has set out to destroy the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, and continues to denounce the Robert Mueller investigation of Russian collusion in the Presidential Election of 2016.
Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, and even Red Scare demagogue Senator Joseph McCarthy are rolling over in their graves.
If any member of the Trump Administration cares more for his nation than his job, he or she should resign enmasse now, or be seen as complicit in “high crimes and misdemeanors”, specifically treason.
Vice President Mike Pence should confer with the Cabinet Officers, and invoke the 25th Amendment Section 4 immediately, or be also declared a traitor to America, with the only way to save his reputation being showing leadership in this greatest moment of threat to our Republic since the Civil War.
For Trump to decide to trust Putin over the national security, diplomatic, and intelligence community is a total outrage. Putin and his team are rejoicing how they have managed to compromise and manipulate a man who should never have been President in the first place, and only won due to Russian collusion.
Putin is responsible for downing of passenger jets; murdering journalists; poisoning and assassinating people in their homes on foreign soil; killing with radiation and military grade nerve agents; and sponsoring far right white supremacist groups on two continents.
It is time for mass marches all over the nation every weekend demanding the resignation, or arrest of the traitor in the White House, no better than Benedict Arnold in the American Revolution, as he has undermined our nation’s defenses against future manipulation of our democracy by Russia, which is sure to happen again.
And the Mueller investigation MUST continue unimpeded, or else the Constitution and Bill of Rights are in shreds! Thirty five indictments, six guilty pleas (including the National Security Adviser Michael Flynn and the Trump Campaign Chair Paul Manafort), and one conviction are just the tip of the iceberg!
If the American people do not come out in droves and kick the Republicans out of control of Congress, then the American people will deserve what they get, a move toward a Fascist, totalitarian government manipulated by Vladimir Putin!
The President of the United States is supposed to make sure that the laws are faithfully executed, and promote the rule of law. Donald Trump has totally failed at this responsibility in favor of being a “friend” of a Russian oligarch. He needs to be brought to justice, and sentenced to life in prison for his crimes—-Russian collusion, obstruction of justice, abuse of power, violation of the Emoluments Clause, and crimes by his cabinet officers, the most egregious of any President in American history!
If this doesn’t cross the line for Republicans, nothing will.
A Russian spy has been arrested. She was in contact with the NRA.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/16/politics/us-charges-russian-national-maria-butina/index.html
Aside from John McCain, the rest of the GOP has made clear that “disappointed” and “deeply troubled” are the new “thoughts and prayers.”
How right-wing media reacted to Putin and Trump’s joint press conference.
Fox News offered a surprisingly nuanced take on the afternoon, while others simply parroted the duo’s lies as fact.
https://thinkprogress.org/conservative-media-fox-news-trump-putin-summit-3edc1ca2e2af/
Trump claims he misspoke. Very lame excuse!
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-putin-summit_us_5b4e35a2e4b0fd5c73bfe130
LOL! He probably used the “dog ate my homework” excuse in school as a kid!
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Trumpty Dumbty must think we’re as gullible as his base of deplorables.
Hillary Clinton warned us … and too many didn’t listen.
https://bpicampus.com/2018/07/17/yes-she-told-you-so/
Rachel mentioned about some candlelight protests scheduled nationwide tomorrow night.
Website to find out about the protests: http://www.confrontcorruption.org
All of the Republican leaders and conservative activists who met with Maria Butina.
https://thinkprogress.org/here-are-all-the-republicans-and-conservative-activists-maria-butina-met-134988a75bbb/
Someone on MSNBC said that Trump’s comments in Helsinki are nothing new, but, the optics are what made a difference, him standing there saying that beside Putin, nodding his head in agreement with Putin, etc.
After his lame “I misspoke” excuse yesterday, today Trump is calling critics of his lame excuse as being “haters”.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/18/politics/trump-defends-putin-news-conference/index.html
It’s something every single day! Just minutes ago, in a cabinet meeting, Trump falsely claims that Russia is no longer targeting the US.
Big bombshell. New York Times is reporting that, in January 2017, that Trump was shown, by our US intelligence, texts and emails that Putin had ordered the hacking.
Here’s the article. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/18/world/europe/trump-intelligence-russian-election-meddling-.html
Time morphed Trump and Putin into the same person. It’s very creepy how much they look alike.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/19/politics/trump-putin-time-cover-trnd/index.html
Trump is considering Putin’s bonkers plan to let Russia interrogate a U.S. diplomat.
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/07/trump-putin-question-us-diplomat.html
D – This is a perfect example of why Trump is so dangerous and needs to be removed from office ASAP.
This is encouraging for a change.
The Senate voted 98-0 to oppose a Putin proposal to interrogate US officials, even after a last-minute reversal by President Trump.
https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/trump-today-07-19-18/index.html
Since Trump loves Putin so much, can we get a 98 to 0 vote on sending him and his criminal family over to Russia to stay permanently and never come back to our country?
Southern Liberal, I love your idea! LOL
House Republicans block effort to subpoena only U.S. witness of secret Trump-Putin meeting.
https://thinkprogress.org/schiff-swalwell-subpoena-translator-trump-putin-gop-blocks-d51f63551031/
The House is where you have a lot of those Tea Party Republicans, calling themselves the Freedom Caucus.