WaPo - "If this is not treason, then what is it?"

[orangecrush]

"We should have a debate over whether treason is being committed by the White House. Yes, I just typed those words."


"Based on the actions of the Trump administration this week, reasonable people can disagree over whether treason is being committed. Let me repeat that: Reasonable people can disagree over whether treason is being committed by this White House.

I do not want to be writing those words. Much as I may have disagreed with previous administrations in my lifetime, I never doubted that the people in those administrations were trying to advance the national interest the best way they thought possible. After this past week, can that case be made with Trump and his national security team?

At some point, Trump will no longer be president. It will be tempting for whomever succeeds him to turn the page on history, declare bygones and move forward. Not me. The behavior of the Trump administration this week has been suspect. It demands a reckoning. A former CIA chief of Russian operations tweeted, “From a counterintelligence perspective, something is going on behind the scenes. Before Helsinki I was less sure; post Helsinki, I feel sick.”


I feel sick typing these words. But the words and actions of this president, his administration, and his loyalists sickens me even more."


https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/news/posteverything/wp/2018/07/19/if-this-is-not-treason-then-what-is-it/


Click the link, well worth reading, there is a lot of damning information.

[dalton99a]

1. It is treason.

[orangecrush]

6. It is a black comedy.

Saw an article about moving the goalposts for Trump that showed how ridiculous things are becoming.

It should never have come this far.

[Crutchez_CuiBono]

9. That's a fact.

let's not let pence and Congress and the gop out of the equation/discussion.

[Renew Deal]

2. The investigations and prosecutions of Trumps crimes should never end until every criminal is found

We cannot just let Trumps behavior go when he’s gone. We need to prove that his traitorous behavior will never be tolerated again.

[empedocles]

3. If Wapo is out publicly with treason. Wow!

there is a lot going on behind the scenes. Much to come soon. Wow!

[lagomorph777]

4. Why should there be a debate? He is committing treason out in the open.

Apply the statutory penalties.

[empedocles]

7. This is a political case

It must be politically, publicly, legally strengthened and built - as Mueller is methodically, patiently doing - as he well should!

[orangecrush]

15. I disagree

it is now a counterintelligence case.

[bdamomma]

5. anyone with a brain in their head

and who understands the Constitution it is TREASON, and we have a traitorous POS in the highest office, I guess those who are supporting him to the end are on wrong side of history.

[ProfessorPlum]

8. This professor at Tufts is a little slow on the uptake if he is just discovering

Trump's treason this week. Welcome to the resistance.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

10. "It will be tempting for whomever succeeds him...."

What? Sheesh, not again.

Whoever vs. Whomever

To determine whether to use whoever or whomever, the he/him rule in the Who/Whom section applies:

he = whoever
him = whomever

Rule 1. The presence of whoever or whomever indicates a dependent clause. Use whoever or whomever to agree with the verb in that dependent clause, regardless of the rest of the sentence.

Examples:
Give it to whoever/whomever asks for it first.
He asks for it first. Therefore, whoever is correct.

We will hire whoever/whomever you recommend.
You recommend him. Therefore, whomever is correct.

We will hire whoever/whomever is most qualified.
He is most qualified. Therefore, whoever is correct.

Rule 2. When the entire whoever/whomever clause is the subject of the verb that follows the clause, look inside the clause to determine whether to use whoever or whomever.

Examples:
Whoever is elected will serve a four-year term.
Whoever is the subject of is elected. The clause whoever is elected is the subject of will serve.

Whomever you elect will serve a four-year term.
Whomever is the object of elect. Whomever you elect is the subject of will serve.

A word to the wise: Whomever is even more of a vogue word than whom. Many use it indiscriminately to sound cultured, figuring that no one will know any better.

[empedocles]

11. As TREASON hits hard everywhere this morning; but, meanwhile, at fox spews this moment

Right now, 10:15a the big story is . . . an interview with 'President Trump' and his 2020 re-election plans.

[oberliner]

13. Because most Republicans don't care about any of this and support him completely

That's why it is important to flip over to Fox occasionally and recognize this reality.

[oberliner]

12. Daniel W. Drezner has been a Never Trump-er for a while

We need to start hearing this from Republicans in Congress.

[mcar]

14. Great read

Thanks.

[orangecrush]

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