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Why Trump flippantly accusing Democrats of ‘treason’ is not a laughing matter (for Obama!)
WaPo ^ | February 6, 2018 | JAMES HOHMANN

Posted on 02/06/2018 10:22:26 AM PST by Seizethecarp

President Trump said Monday that it was “un-American” and “treasonous” when some congressional Democrats did not applaud during last week's State of the Union address as he touted the low rates of black and Hispanic unemployment.

-- Obama used the word “treason” only twice during his eight years in office. Not coincidentally, he was discussing the rise of Trump both times. As the Republican primaries raged on in March 2016 and the establishment tried to block Trump from securing the nomination, Obama said during a fundraiser in Austin that their party wouldn’t be in that position if elected Republicans had not looked the other way for years while Trump falsely accused him of being from Kenya.

“As long as it was directed at me, they were fine with it. … Now, suddenly, we're shocked that there's gambling going on in this establishment,” Obama said. “What's happening in this primary is just a distillation of what's been happening inside their party for more than a decade. The reason that many of their voters are responding is because this is what's been fed through the messages they've been sending for a long time: that you just make flat assertions that don't comport with the facts; … that compromise is a betrayal; that the other side isn't simply wrong … but the other side is destroying the country or treasonous.

(Excerpt) Read more at s2.washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: kenya; obama; sheriffarpaio; trump
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"Trump falsely accused him of being from Kenya." So says WaPo with no mention of or rebuttal of Sheriff Joe's evidence of BC forgery that raised questions about Barry's Hawaii birth narrative. If Barry wasn't born in HI, where was he born?

WaPo continues to shamelessly gasslight its readers.

So the only two times the word "treason" passed Barry's lips during his entire presidency was when he was stung by Trump having used it to accuse him of possibly hiding something! How indicative of a sense of guilt and being worried about getting caught is that?

1 posted on 02/06/2018 10:22:26 AM PST by Seizethecarp
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To: bitt; LucyT; null and void; Cold Case Posse Supporter; Flotsam_Jetsome; circumbendibus; ...

Ping to WaPo article revealing that Barry only used the word “treason” twice during his presidency and that when he saw the Posse coming after him!


2 posted on 02/06/2018 10:24:47 AM PST by Seizethecarp
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To: Seizethecarp
This is the party that burnt the country to the ground over whether or not they could own people.

Screw them!


3 posted on 02/06/2018 10:28:09 AM PST by KC_Lion (If you want on First Lady Melania's, Ivanka Trump's or Sarah Palin's Ping Lists, just let me know.)
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To: Seizethecarp

Now it is up to the Democrats to prove that they are NOT treasonous!


4 posted on 02/06/2018 10:31:07 AM PST by Cowboy Bob ("Other People's Money" = The life blood of Liberalism)
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To: Seizethecarp
A president loosely accusing the opposition party of treason represents a greater danger to the long-term health of the American system than a 4.6 percent drop in the Dow Jones Industrial Average.

The Compost throws that word "loosely" around pretty loosely.

5 posted on 02/06/2018 10:34:21 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (<img src="http://i.imgur.com/WukZwJP.gif" width=400>)
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To: Seizethecarp

Because he knows stuff.


6 posted on 02/06/2018 10:35:18 AM PST by bigbob (Trust Trump. Trust Sessions. The Great Awakening is at hand...MAGA!)
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To: Seizethecarp

MEMO FOR PRESIDENT TRUMP: It is time to ask that another special counsel be appointed. This one on the topic of FISA Court corruption and abuse.


7 posted on 02/06/2018 10:35:30 AM PST by Rapscallion (The tragedy of politics is that it can make people hate each other.)
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To: Seizethecarp

Seems I’ve read that Obama wrote in one of his books that he was born in Kenya?

I watched an interview with Obama long ago (seems like it was with Charlie Rose but not positive) that’s disappeared down the rabbit hole, as so much info on him has done.

In that interview, I distinctly remember him being asked about a future run for president. His answer was that he didn’t qualify because he wasn’t born in the US.


8 posted on 02/06/2018 10:36:27 AM PST by Heart of Georgia
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To: Seizethecarp

“that the other side isn’t simply wrong … but the other side is destroying the country or treasonous”

If the noose fits, wear it.


9 posted on 02/06/2018 10:36:58 AM PST by Boogieman
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To: KC_Lion

Amen~!


10 posted on 02/06/2018 10:39:07 AM PST by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism)http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: Seizethecarp

I wouldn’t support the use of the word treason but they blow their whole argument because Obama used it.


11 posted on 02/06/2018 10:40:37 AM PST by Williams (Stop tolerating the intolerant.)
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To: Heart of Georgia

Obama’s book states straight up he was born in Africa. I don’t happen to think he was, but he has no right to complain after his own book declared it.


12 posted on 02/06/2018 10:42:47 AM PST by Williams (Stop tolerating the intolerant.)
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To: Seizethecarp

> Trump cheapens the value of significant words

Can any liberal tell me the meaning (value) of
- racist/racism
- sexist/sexism
- fair share (of taxes)

“Cheapening the value of significant words” is right out of the democrat playbook.
They want us to believe “microaggressions” are the same as lynchings (and their supporters buy it or at least think whites are scum).
Trump wants us to believe that sitting for the SOTU is as bad as overthrowing the government (and his supporters agree or at least think democrats are scum).

Once again they are upset that Trump is using their own techniques against them.


13 posted on 02/06/2018 10:43:02 AM PST by LostPassword
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To: Seizethecarp

It does not matter where Obama was born.
His father was a foreign national making Obama a British subject at birth.
Children of foreign nationals who are born with multiple nationalities are NATURALLY not natural born citizens.
A natural born citizen is naturally a citizen because they could not possibly be anything else, born here of citizen parents.


14 posted on 02/06/2018 10:43:51 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents__Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Seizethecarp

It does not matter where Obama was born.
His father was a foreign national making Obama a British subject at birth.
Children of foreign nationals who are born with multiple nationalities are NATURALLY not natural born citizens.
A natural born citizen is naturally a citizen because they could not possibly be anything else, born here of citizen parents.


15 posted on 02/06/2018 10:43:51 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents__Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Seizethecarp

From the people who called him treasonous when he won the election; then proceeded to take positions that put them at odds with American success.


16 posted on 02/06/2018 10:43:58 AM PST by KC_Conspirator
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To: Seizethecarp

When you consider Obama’s sense of self-importance, this makes perfect sense. When you are convinced that you’re the center of the universe, then of course someone questioning your legitimacy = treason (especially to a person as unfamiliar with the Constitution as Obama).

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17 posted on 02/06/2018 10:44:04 AM PST by Fantasywriter (Any attempt to do forensic work using Internet artifacts is fraught with pitfalls. JoeProbono)
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To: Seizethecarp

“The reason that many of their voters are responding is because this is what’s been fed through the messages they’ve been sending for a long time: that you just make flat assertions that don’t comport with the facts; … that compromise is a betrayal; that the other side isn’t simply wrong … but the other side is destroying the country or treasonous.:

Zero is wrong, as usual. I came to that conclusion long ago, and all on my own.


18 posted on 02/06/2018 10:49:47 AM PST by Heart of Georgia
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To: Seizethecarp; Fred Nerks

If Trump were like Obama, he would not be accusing them of treason flippantly. If President Trump were at all like Obama, President Trump would be arranging for each of the presidents DOJ and FBI enemies to be Seth Richified , or forced to take a walk in Fort Marcy Park.

President Trump will deliver all of them the death of a thousand cuts.

Knowing the FBI as we do now, ask yourself, would an FBI agent in love with Hillery Clinton or Obama assassinate Seth Rich? This is a serious question and I am NOT KIDDING.

Its already happening. The swampers are bleeding to death and do not even know it. But at some point they will know, likely on the day of Tuesday , November 6th, 2018.


19 posted on 02/06/2018 10:51:05 AM PST by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism)http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: Heart of Georgia
If that video tape existed, someone would have found it. The autobiography, i think it was, does exist and includes a blurb about his Kenyan birth.

The other curious incident was Obie's ABC interview with Stephanapalous in which he spoke "my muslim faith". Stephy quickly corrected him.

20 posted on 02/06/2018 10:51:49 AM PST by chiller (If liberals didn't have double standards, they'd have none at all.)
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