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Max Boot, the onetime conservative who has become one of Mr. Trump’s sharpest critics, noted in a column in The Washington Post on Monday that accusing him of treason was once unthinkable. No longer. “If anyone is ‘the enemy of the people,’ it is Trump himself,” he wrote.
Mr. Brennan, who served under presidents of both parties and rose to C.I.A. director under President Barack Obama, wrote on Twitter. “It was nothing short of treasonous. Not only were Trump’s comments imbecilic, he is wholly in the pocket of Putin.
When Mr. Brennan accused President Trump of treason following Monday’s meeting with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, it opened a floodgate. The New York Daily News used the banner headline “OPEN TREASON” on its cover. Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Kimmel called it treason on their late-night shows.
searches for “treason” had increased by 2,943 percent.
Eliot A. Cohen, a former State Department official under President George W. Bush and a longtime critic of Mr. Trump, wrote on Twitter: “The word treason is so strong that we must use it carefully. But that press conference has brought the President of the United States right up to that dark, dark shore.”
“Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort,” the Constitution says.
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Max Boot, the onetime conservative who has become one of Mr. Trump’s sharpest critics, noted in a column in The Washington Post on Monday that accusing him of treason was once unthinkable. No longer. “If anyone is ‘the enemy of the people,’ it is Trump himself,” he wrote.
Mr. Brennan, who served under presidents of both parties and rose to C.I.A. director under President Barack Obama, wrote on Twitter. “It was nothing short of treasonous. Not only were Trump’s comments imbecilic, he is wholly in the pocket of Putin.
When Mr. Brennan accused President Trump of treason following Monday’s meeting with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, it opened a floodgate. The New York Daily News used the banner headline “OPEN TREASON” on its cover. Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Kimmel called it treason on their late-night shows.
searches for “treason” had increased by 2,943 percent.
Eliot A. Cohen, a former State Department official under President George W. Bush and a longtime critic of Mr. Trump, wrote on Twitter: “The word treason is so strong that we must use it carefully. But that press conference has brought the President of the United States right up to that dark, dark shore.”
“Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort,” the Constitution says.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/17/...ackage-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news
