Trumpbots, have, since the inception of Trump’s campaign accused
those who were less than enthusiastic or outright opposed to the septuagenarian
degenerate and his candidacy were somehow…”unAmerican”. Since his “selection”
by the Electoral College, those accusations have risen to the level of treason.
This is, in large part due to their fundamental misunderstanding of the
definition of treason. Treason is defined by Article III, Section 3 of the
United States Constitution as follows:
Treason against the United
States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid
and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the
Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open
Court.
This is the definition of treason. It is not opposition to the
candidacy of the most eminently unsuitable candidate for President this nation
has ever seen…unless, of course, you count Ben Carson. Treason is not
principled opposition to the presidency of a man seemingly bent on using that
office to enrich himself, his family and his cronies.The man selected as POTUS,
however, is flirting with treason.
As evidence of Russian interference in this election, interference
which benefitted Donnie, he dismisses the evidence “as a ‘ridiculous’ political
attack on the legitimacy of his election as president” (Shattuck, 2016), a legitimacy
that will always be in question. With the release of the FBI/DHS report on
Russian hacking and its influence on US politics, Donnie blandly replies “It’s
time to move on to bigger and better things” (Wagner & Demirjian, 2016),
as Putin chides the majority of Americans who voted for Clinton to “lose with
dignity” (Filipov, 2016). Like
the GOP lost with dignity in 2008 and 2012?
The real question here, to the Trumpbots who think opposition to
Trump’s presidency, and the kleptocracy he is creating, is treason should be “Which
lies closer to treason? Principled opposition to an unfit POTUS? Or, that
POTUS, his cronies and sycophants siding with a foreign power…Russia…in its
meddling in the US elections?” The next question the Trumbots need to ask is of
themselves, and these people are willing to believe the crazy shit about “Pizzagate”
but not the assessment of America’s intelligence community, “How much meddling
in US politics by Russia are you going to say is OK?” The Trumpbots need to
answer these questions before they start throwing charges of “treason” and “anti-Americanism”
and opponents of the coming train-wreck that will be the Trump administration.
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