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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNYT op-ed: Trump Is Not a King
This is by Tim Weiner, who has written histories of the CIA and FBI.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/17/opinion/cia-brennan-trump-letters.html
Its not a crime in the United States. Thats why we fought a revolution against a mad king.
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You dont need a secret decoder ring to see whats happening here. John Brennan, who knows whereof he speaks, believes that the president is a threat to the security of the United States a counterintelligence threat, no less, in thrall to President Vladimir Putin of Russia. The president attacks him, severing Mr. Brennans access to classified information. The deans of national security rise up to defend him and, by implication, intelligence officers and federal investigators who are closing in on the White House.
They are sending a message to active-duty generals and admirals, soldiers and spies. Remember your oath to protect and defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic. Think twice before following this mans orders in a crisis. You might first consider throwing down your stars.
H2O Man
(73,576 posts)empedocles
(15,751 posts)like the old corrupt Roman dictators, he has a corrupted House and Court.
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)"...protect and defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic."
This is the hour of the republican's ultimate cowardly unprincipled betrayal of American democracy. Shame on them.
dchill
(38,510 posts)Just tryin' out a headline for a real news organization. Don't mind me.
dalton99a
(81,534 posts)Great advice for every real patriot
malaise
(269,095 posts)Lock him up!
joshdawg
(2,651 posts)and the rest of his family and administration and all the cowardly republican congressvermin who have their thumbs up their asses and mouths who still support him. (they swap thumbs every so often)
ProudMNDemocrat
(16,786 posts)That Trump is a danger and threat to our National Security. That Trump is capable of throwing the entire nation under the bus to allow us to be overtaken by a hostile country, like Russia, with Trump as the installed puppet.
THAT would be Treason in the clearest definition of the word. Our Militany would resist. There would be death and destruction, and our allies that Trump has Pissed off, would not come to our aid. Why should they?
Congressional Republicans will have allowed this to happen. They are complicit.
colorado_ufo
(5,737 posts)but no one would take me seriously.
LiberalLovinLug
(14,175 posts)There sure seem to be a lot of the Christian right all through the military, top and bottom. And it's still the case that many, even most, vote Republican, despite things like VA cuts. Rush Limpballs and Fox on exclusively on Army bases doesn't help either.
I could see the armed forces even splitting over this. The True Believers, that think God put Trump in the WH and will defend Trump against all enemies, foreign and domestic.
Then include all the self styled well armed militias. We'd have to just hope that enough of the armed forces are on our side.
NoMoreRepugs
(9,441 posts)All of the deplorables and all of their guns would seem to make that inevitable IMO.
tblue37
(65,456 posts)FakeNoose
(32,671 posts)... it's not even a law in our country. It was considered a crime in 1776 in Britain but that's irrelevant now, even the British have moved past that.
tblue37
(65,456 posts)is the crime of lese majesté.
highplainsdem
(49,012 posts)Trump doesn't really care about the anthem, doesn't even know the words. But he wants people to have to show respect for the anthem and flag as symbols of his presidency, not of the country.
greatauntoftriplets
(175,746 posts)2naSalit
(86,680 posts)is correct that his oath obligates him to speak out about a corrupt government and let the public know that we are being attacked from within the WH.
Freethinker65
(10,027 posts)It is past time to rein Trump in.
Mc Mike
(9,114 posts)'Stop being so mean to your der Drumpfenfuhrer', dRumpf blubbered.
kentuck
(111,106 posts)No joy in Mudville.
FakeNoose
(32,671 posts)Sh-sh-sh - don't tell her that!
calimary
(81,351 posts)paleotn
(17,931 posts)I don't even think he's human. To use his own words, he's vermin. He and all his spawn. Everyone knows what should be done with vermin.
ginnyinWI
(17,276 posts)Day after day, he calls people out for what he is, himself. It's uncanny--it's like subconsciously, he is trying desperately to come clean--or to cry out for help.
Mr. Ected
(9,670 posts)...who empower them to look the other way when the accuser is a Democrat, or perceived to be an existential threat to their power. The problem isn't simply a rotten Congress. The problem is an uninformed, lazy, brainwashed electorate that sees Hillary Clinton as a greater threat to our democracy than Vladimir Putin. The more Trump lashes out at his detractors in a juvenile fashion, the giddier they become.
They may not account for a majority - not even close - but there's enough of them, and will always be enough of them, to stymie the democratic process and place all of us in harm's way for time immemorial...or until we become the US of R.
JohnnyRingo
(18,637 posts)Well stated
moondust
(19,998 posts)And HE wants to be and is doing all he can to become just that.
Of course the transition to a third-world autocracy is gonna take some time...
YessirAtsaFact
(2,064 posts)That Trumps supporters were couch potato anarchists, quite happy to watch him destroy the government