The President of the United States Committed Treason
The Bill Press Pod
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4.7 • 601 Ratings
🗓️ 17 July 2018
⏱️ 112 minutes
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Summary
An absolutely stunning display by Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin at their press conference in Helsinki. An American President threw the country under the bus. How can Republicans defend his actions and comments?
Bill breaks down what this all means moving forward. Can we function as a democracy with a President who can't stand up to a dictator?
We talk to USA Today's Ray Locker, Rep Dan Kildee (D-MI) and Joe Cirincione from the Ploughshares Fund.
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| 1:09.0 | Donald Trump is either mentally insane or he's a traitor. Maybe both. Hey, hello, everybody. What do you say? |
| 1:20.1 | Unbelievable. What we're facing? What we got to talk about today on this Tuesday, July 17, |
| 1:28.9 | we saw a performance by a president of the United States, unlike any that anybody has seen before, a President of the United |
| 1:34.8 | States who stood up in front of the world and said, I don't trust my own country, I don't |
| 1:40.9 | trust our own leaders, I don't trust our own intelligence officers. |
| 1:46.5 | I put my faith and my trust in this murderer standing alongside me by the name of Vladimir Putin. |
| 1:54.4 | He might as well have burned the American flag. He might as well have turned in his American |
| 1:59.8 | citizenship. You know, Vladimir Putin gave him a soccer ball. |
| 2:04.6 | Donald Trump should have put on a jersey, one of those black jerseys, |
| 2:08.6 | because he's playing for the Russian team, not the American team. |
| 2:12.6 | Holy mackerel. So much to talk about. |
| 2:16.6 | And what are we going to do about it? And what are we going to do about it and what are Republicans going to do about it? |
| 2:22.0 | It is, I believe, it's clear that Donald Trump is guilty of treason and any Republican in the House or the Senate who refuses to condemn the president and refuses to vote to condemn |
| 2:36.6 | him, if not impeach him, is as guilty of treason as Donald Trump is. |
| 2:42.5 | That's what we're talking about today. |
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