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None dare call it treason: As the Flynn scandal widens, lets consider the evidence that Trump is a traitorHas Trump's entire team been compromised by Putin? If so, everyone who continues to support him is complicit
Chauncey DeVega Thursday, Feb 16, 2017 04:00 AM CST
Flynn is not alone. Other Trump operatives are also under investigation by the FBI for potentially illegal contact with senior Russian intelligence operatives.
This information is not new. The New York Times and other American news media outlets were aware of reports about Russian tampering in the 2016 election as well as an ongoing federal investigation into Trump, his advisers and other representatives. Instead of sharing this information with the American people during the election campaign, the Times and other publications chose to exercise restraint and caution. Decades of bullying by the right-wing media and movement conservatives would pay great dividends.
Afraid of showing any so-called liberal bias, the corporate news media demonstrated little restraint in its obsessive reporting about the non-story that was Hillary Clintons emails. This, in conjunction with other factors, almost certainly cost her the election.
In all, the Republican Party and its voters have abandoned their Cold War bonafides and their (somewhat exaggerated) reputation as diehard enemies of Russia and the former Soviet Union. To borrow from the language of spycraft, it would seem that they have been flipped by Vladimir Putin.
Despite mounting evidence suggesting that Trumps administration has been compromised by Russia, his public continues to back him. The Republican Party and its leadership have largely chosen to support Donald Trump in a type of political suicide mission, because they see him as an opportunity to force their agenda on the American people and reverse or undo by the social progress made by the New Deal, the civil rights movement, feminism, the LGBT movement and other forces of progressive change.
http://www.salon.com/2017/02/16/none-dare-call-it-treason-in-the-wake-of-the-flynn-scandal-what-more-proof-do-we-need-that-donald-trump-is-a-traitor/
Cha
(297,154 posts)tough shite if they have a "liberal bias".
Now it's blowing in their faces.. I hope the gop is on a political suicide mission..
This from Krugman..
Link to tweet
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)Oh the news media couldn't get enough of Trump all last year. HUUUUGE ratings were all they cared about.
And now BLOTUS 45 has froze them out at his press outings and will not call on them for questions LOL assholes!
Les Moonves: Trump's run is 'damn good for CBS'
By Eliza Collins 02/29/16 06:15 PM EST
http://www.politico.com/blogs/on-media/2016/02/les-moonves-trump-cbs-220001
Cha
(297,154 posts)just the other day I saw this from cbs..
'Divorced from reality': CBS anchor slams Trump after wild day of inaccurate comments
http://www.businessinsider.com/cbs-scott-pelley-trump-divorced-from-reality-2017-2
No shite, Sherlock.. cbs owns a chunk of trump, too.
dalton99a
(81,455 posts)No truer words.
BumRushDaShow
(128,884 posts)They are so desperate and willing to now throw away what is left of their "principles" in order to impose a neo-Christo-fascist kleptocratic society.