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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsVirginia Gov. McAuliffe: If any American was involved with election interference, 'it's treason'
"I mean the bottom line, the crux of this entire issue, is that people were working with a foreign government who you know is not working in our best interests to destabilize our elections and to destabilize our country," McAuliffe told David Axelrod on "The Axe Files," a podcast from the University of Chicago Institute of Politics and CNN
"If we find that any US citizen was involved in this, it's treason," he said.
"We'll see where it goes," the Virginia Democrat said of Mueller's indictments of Paul Manafort, Rick Gates, and George Papadopoulos this week. Papadopoulos, who served as a foreign policy adviser for the Trump campaign, pleaded guilty to making a false statement to the FBI after he lied about his interactions with foreign officials close to the Russian government. Manafort and Gates pleaded not guilty.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/02/politics/terry-mcauliffe-axe-files/index.html
FSogol
(45,488 posts)L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)Botany
(70,516 posts)L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)joeybee12
(56,177 posts)Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)must be punished to the full extent of the law.
Treason (R) is totally frikken deplorable.
Botany
(70,516 posts)It was treason and we had a coup
slumcamper
(1,606 posts)Botany
(70,516 posts)... somebody else to vote for the opening on the Supreme Court?
The width and depth of this criminal enterprise is massive.
Blue_Adept
(6,399 posts)barbtries
(28,799 posts)and stem the flow of propaganda it will mean nothing. republicans have no use for democracy. my hopes are low.
triron
(22,007 posts)barbtries
(28,799 posts)i have a friend at work and he comes over to commiserate. i find myself telling him, it's been bad before, even worse...we can pull out of this. then the next day he's shoring me up because i hit bottom and can't find my hope.
it's been nearly a year since the election was stolen for the least qualified, most corrupt, racist, misogynistic, homophobic horror show of a human. i'm still feeling the shock from time to time. this is a catastrophe. i just hope enough people will pay attention and VOTE in 2018. and between then and now, i hope Mueller takes his ass so far down he loses every cent and goes to prison for his crimes.
Podkayne K
(145 posts)lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)It's a major problem; this kind of mumbo-jumbo makes our side seem "dishonest" compared to the clear, simple language that RePutins use when telling lies.
Here's what I mean:
"I mean the bottom line, the crux of this entire issue, is that people were working with a foreign government who you know is not working in our best interests to destabilize our elections and to destabilize our country," McAuliffe told David Axelrod on "The Axe Files," a podcast from the University of Chicago Institute of Politics and CNN
"If we find that any US citizen was involved in this, it's treason," he said.
Should be:
"Trump's people were working with America's enemy, Russia, to take over and destroy America," McAuliffe told David Axelrod on "The Axe Files," a podcast.
"It's treason; Mueller is proving that Trump's entire campaign is built on treason" he said.
Cosmocat
(14,566 posts)nm
N_E_1 for Tennis
(9,734 posts)renate
(13,776 posts)This should be its own thread.
uponit7771
(90,347 posts)MarvinGardens
(779 posts)And it just occurred to me that some states have treason statutes as well.
NRaleighLiberal
(60,015 posts)Our side needs the courage to call it like it is and to keep this up front in focus.
triron
(22,007 posts)Exactly what they should be doing!
N_E_1 for Tennis
(9,734 posts)I agree it is a coup.
If the administration is found guilty of treason does everything they did in office get negated?
Start from square one.
triron
(22,007 posts)Hillary is rightful POTUS.
triron
(22,007 posts)time now. But there are detractors of course.
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triron
(22,007 posts)from the president of Americans for Action as he was rudely tackled at a presser?
peggysue2
(10,832 posts)needs to be repeated frequently because that's what this was and is. All the narratives on Democratic confusion and lack of unity, blah, blah, blah is to drown out the one true descriptor: Treason.
Mueller has released the dogs from hell. Republicans & associates will rue the day they sold their souls and their country to the highest bidder.
Never forget, never forgive.
Gothmog
(145,321 posts)triron
(22,007 posts)triron
(22,007 posts)spanone
(135,844 posts)Initech
(100,081 posts)No one hates Hillary more than they do. And they backed such winners as McConnell, Ryan, Brownback, Christie, Perry, and Walker.
Duppers
(28,125 posts)I love my friendly, articulate governor. Met him for the first time in September.