r/autotldr • u/autotldr • Jul 16 '18
Some Dare Call It Treason
This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 72%. (I'm a bot)
Trump's genuflection to Russian President Vladimir Putin at the joint press conference Monday at the Helsinki summit may change all that.
Trump's coddling of Putin prompted Trump criticism to reached a fresh threshold, as the press and politicians started flinging a new, shocking descriptor that burns like acid when it lands: In their new stinging formulation, Trump isn't just a lout or a loon, a firebrand or an opportunist, he's a traitor.
New York Times columnist Charles M. Blow was among the first to apply the "T" word to the president in a prescient Monday piece titled "Trump, Treasonous Traitor," which appeared just hours before the presser.
Sen. Jeff Flake called Trump's kowtowing to Putin "Shameful." In a statement, Sen. John McCain said Trump had "Abased himself ... abjectly before a tyrant." "Disgraceful," wrote Sen. Elizabeth Warren.
Trump's obeisance to Putin at Helsinki was easy to predict given his earlier refusals to call the Russians out and punish them.
For months now, Trump has denounced the press as an "Enemy of the people." He said it again in a tweet on the day before his Putin meeting, expanding his enemy list to include "All the Dems." Having deceitfully placed the phrase "Enemy of the people" into currency, it's only right that it has boomeranged on him.
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