At best, the Trumpers in the White House are inept and ignorant. At worst, they are treasonous.
You really need to look at this over the wider field of events and issues going back before Snowden. I still run into Millennial chuckleheads who think Snowden is a hero, and that there's some pervert at NSA with Kleenex and Vaseline on his desk listening in on their phone-sex with some bimbo up in Reno. They forget -- or never saw the re-runs -- of the Andy Griffith show and the party-line in Mayberry.
Back in the fall of 2015 and then again in early 2016, a major GOP primary debate and then a Democratic Town Hall were scheduled for broadcast. Within a 30-hour period before the events, there were news-frenzies about school terror hoaxes directed at the main big-city school districts of LA and New York, respectively. These were intensively Blue voting districts, all within a 50 mile radius of major terror-attack Ground-Zeros.
The perpetrators could have been teenagers fascinated with the journals of Josef Goebbels. They could easily have been individual Trump, Christie, Cruz or other supporters, since the hoaxes would feed the mantra of any among those candidates. They could equally have been perpetrated by irresponsible, unprincipled campaign organizations.
FBI traced the IP-address origin of the hoaxes to eastern Germany -- once East Germany -- a place which had long been a hotbed of intelligence activity and intrigue -- a place where Vladimir Putin had spent his early KGB career.
I wrote an e-mail to the White House, adamantly insisting that they identify the perpetrators. I was puzzled with the possibility that the Russians were behind it, but then I recalled all I know about Cold War history: and there are Russian motivations on steroids. No further news about the hoaxes appeared since then.
If I were the President of the United States, and if I genuinely concerned myself with the national security of the United States, I might have been compelled to seek "wire-taps" on anyone suspected of the hoaxes or anything else that put a thumb on the election-scale. And I would certainly wonder about a candidate who shamelessly and publicly asked the Russians to hack his opposition's personal server -- regardless what implications that server had for other concerns.
Trump is making fanfare with his claim that "Obama wire-tapped him." Nobody is pushing the notion that Trump may have collaborated with the Russians, therefore a Traitor. Or, if they're pushing it, it is in muffled whispers about "possible collaboration.
"Treason doth not prosper, for if it did -- none would dare call it Treason."
To put it another way: I already believe that Trump is a Traitor to God and to his fellow man: he makes sly little jokes dismissive of established Christian religions -- never mind his Muslim obsession; he betrayed a third of the Carrier workers who had already done their Xmas shopping as they believed their jobs were secure; he betrayed a hundred or more people with his moratorium on Muslim travel from his casually-selected Muslim states. And now, once again, he's betrayed part of his base, who will be big Losers with the proposed TrumpCare plan.
Now, he's grown paranoid, thinking someone tapped his phone, because he's worried that he "did something" or doesn't remember exactly what he did.
There are enough dots to connect that would've ruined his chances even for a primary win, and which would lead the scientifically-inclined to bet that he betrayed his country. The legal standard has a built-in bias to protect the innocent while overlooking those who pass through the "not guilty" hoop.
The Republicans don't want to visit those possibilities, because all they care about is hanging on to power.
They're all Traitors for that. So, last week, I quietly told my dentist of 15 years to f*** off, and in a month's time, I will blast my car mechanic with double-canisters of verbal shrapnel that will leave his ears ringing and his face stinging throughout the day. There are other dentists, other doctors, other car-mechanics, other green-grocers. The unabashed Trumpers have to be taught a lesson, even in a state where they had been mere cheerleaders -- a minority whose vote counted for less than nothing.
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