All Dare Call It Treason

On July 13th, the case of  Russian interference was closed.  The Mueller investigation, with its new indictments of Russian officials and the paper trail that supported it, locked in that Russian interference did occur.  The case against the Trump administration was strong but implicit, and not yet direct.

Monday's press conference closed the case on Trump's involvement.  Given opportunity after opportunity, Trump continued to choose the dictator Putin over his own country.  He did not defend his own intelligence community. 

He spent the first part of his trip trashing the European Union and NATO.  It wasn't just the press conference, it was the whole trip spent in service of a foreign dictatorship.  The press conference just made it crystal clear to all what many of us have known for years.  Trump's behavior is treason.  He has sold us out to Russia.

But we don't have to accept it.  We don't have to blindly follow him off the autocratic cliff.

We have to take off our partisan pants and come together to take care of this, including Congress. ESPECIALLY Congress.

Congress needs to act immediately:

Pass legislation to protect the Mueller investigation.

Reach out to NATO, the European Union, and other countries not yet possessed by dictators, that despite the President's vile ramblings, we support them 100%.

Put the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court on hold, or at least get a public pledge that he will recuse himself on any questions that relate to the Mueller investigation, or the President's power to pardon himself.  A traitor to this country should not get to select Supreme Court nominees whose primary purpose is to keep the treasonous in power.

And they need to compel the President to surrender tax returns and financial information to find out what his level of financial entanglement is with the Russians.  THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT.  The American people need to know.  We have a right to know!  Whether it is by investigatory committee, or by a vote of the Congress as a whole, it is now a matter of patriotic duty and national security interest that this be done.  And done NOW

No more partisanship.  Republicans and Democrats must band together and show a united front.  Or all may be lost.

To paraphrase what I heard Rachel Maddow say last night on her top-rated TV program:

Usually, when we have a national security crisis, we look for the President to lead us. This time, the President IS the national security crisis.

Me again:

We have met the crisis.  The crisis is him.

Let's do something about it.

While we can.