Former Bush ethics lawyer Richard Painter on Trump/Russia "this is treason what is going on here."

[kpete]

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[spanone]

1. K&R...

[kentuck]

2. He is much closer to the truth than the media.

They need to report on these issues. The violations of our Constitution, including emolument clause, that he mentions. And his conflicts of interests that put our country at risk. And his refusal to be open and transparent with the American people.

He should honor our Constitution or he should resign. Or he should be impeached.

[BSdetect]

3. K&R

[L. Coyote]

4. Reasearchers are closing in on them more each day.

Guccifer 2.0: Game Over

[Mr. Ected]

5. Lawyers need to watch the words they use, though

Trump's actions may have been treasonous in the sense that he sold out his country for his own self-aggrandizement to a sovereign hostile to the USA....but....in the most technical constitutional sense, Trump's crimes cannot be deemed to be Treason. We are not at war with Russia, and cyberwar is a new age attribution that is war in the same way as the "war on drugs" is a war.

I just want all of us to be reading from the same page when the innumerable hammers drop.