Former Massachusetts Gov. Bill Weld (R) accused President Donald Trump of “treason” for his phone call with the Ukrainian President to pressure him into investigating former Vice President Joe Biden’s son.
Stop calling it the fricking Biden-Ukrainian scandal. How about the Trump Ukrainian scandal.
Damn Skippy, tell us what you REALLY think!
It’s almost like he’s afraid to be tainted by this shit.
More of this please.
Before the crowd pours in and starts saying how contemptibly easy that is for Weld to say because reasons, I’d like to say in my quiet, hesitant way that a prominent Republican saying a sitting Republican president has committed treason and talking about the situation in terms of the death penalty and saying the president’s many other undoubted crimes pale in comparison—well, that’s kind of unusual. Even remarkable. I’ll be going now.
Perhaps it’s time we should label this entire presidency Trumpgate or maybe Trumpwater…
I would say he’s a man of integrity, but Weld is still a republican!
It’s far beyond a scandal.
I vote for “tRump-Guiliani Conspiracy of Dunces”
A Republican using the “T” word about another Republican?
Has the earth started spinning backwards?
How about Trumpshit?
Yep, this.
Republicans have a history of treasonous acts to gain the Presidency, from Nixon and Vietnam to St. Ronny and Iran, its just how they do things. Donald is just more inept then the others.
Speaker Pelosi, what is your reaction to Mr. Weld’s remarks?
It’s Whistelgate.
It’s about freakin’ time, and it’s good to see.
Nobody can accuse Weld of being a Lefty, so let’s hear what all the “serious” Republicans in Congress have to say about this. And I don’t mean the usual clowns like Graham.
And someone ask Pelosi.
Well, maybe. He’s more of a late-1970s Rethug, and he certainly doesn’t fit with today’s Party of Treason. And he did run as a Libertarian in 2016, I think.
Treason in the conversational sense, perhaps not in the Constitutional sense, which involves making war on the United States or aiding the nation’s enemies. In the latter respect, it becomes treason only if it could be proved that Trump’s pressure on Ukraine was meant to aid Russia. That seems like a bridge too far to prove. And it’s likely that Trump did not think so subtly.
It’s beyond astonishing how this keeps happening where even ‘liberal’ leaning news orgs will just adopt right-wing language when talking about a topic!
This is why the right gets to frame how every damn topic of the last 30 years that is discussed. They somehow always define the language the press uses. Just like TPM uses the right-wing word “migrants” rather than “immigrants” when talking about immigration now. This is the kind of things Dems/liberals MUST address to move forward.
Technically, it’s not treason since we’re not at war with the Ukraine. Still, having a Republican say that the Death penalty should be considered for Trump is interesting; a little over-the-top, but interesting.
That Trump has gotten several states to cancel the Republican primaries has given Weld, Walsh and Sanford far more of a spotlight than any of them would probably have gotten just from challenging him. It was a gift to them as far as I can tell.
That framing is uncommonly poor judgement.
It’s funny: over at Fox there is not a single story about this TRE45ON!!