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Trump's former national security adviser accused him of treasonous conduct. And no one cared.
Trump is still helping Russia's war on America. It's hardly a story.
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Trump is still helping Russia’s war on America. It’s hardly a story.
In any other time, it would have been front-page news and ignited days or weeks of controversy. But last week, when a former top government official accused the president, for whom he once worked, of treasonous conduct, the story lasted nanoseconds and was blown away by the never-ending firehose of craziness and disinformation generated by the commander-in-chief and his crew. The tragedy here is not merely that Donald Trump escaped yet another scandal. It is that a fundamental and dire threat to the security of the United States did not receive sufficient attention and that American democracy remains in immediate danger.
I am referring to an interview retired General H.R. McMaster, who served as Trump’s national security adviser after Michael Flynn was bounced, gave to MSNBC, in which he said that Trump was acting like a traitor. This sounds hyperbolic. But how else to frankly characterize McMaster’s remarks? He stated that Trump “is aiding and abetting Putin’s efforts” to intervene in the 2020 presidential contest. This is a helluva accusation being leveled by a man who once was Trump’s most senior national security aide: the president is currently assisting a foreign adversary’s covert attack on the United States.
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Trump is a Russian asset. His frequent calls to his buddy Putin are not recorded or released as transcripts to the public. He never has anything bad to say about Putin or Russia. And his closed door meetings with Putin at summits are not transcribed or at least not released.