Reprinted from hartmannreport.com
Traitor sign, Women's March, DTLA, Los Angeles, California, USA
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Because he has not been held to account, Trumpism has spread across the US landscape like metastasized cancer, with GOP politicians who aspire to corrupt strongman status emulating him in every state
Trump unleashed what has become a million US Covid deaths, a war in Ukraine, and an attempted coup against the United States, all while coarsening our politics and ratcheting up hate. And now racist, rightwing politicians who disdain democracy are imitating him all across the nation.
What is the impact of all this on America and Americans, and when will he be held to account?
Five years ago today, Donald Trump broke the law and outed an Israeli spy who'd embedded himself into ISIS.
Trump gave the code-word-classified-Top-Secret intelligence to Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, when he and Russian Ambassador Kislyak had a "private" meeting with Trump in the Oval Office which was not on Trump's calendar or announced to the US press.
The Israeli spy had spent years burying himself deeply enough into ISIS that he was on the verge of disrupting a plot to attack a city in Russia-controlled Syria: instead he had to flee for his life because Trump burned him.
As ABC News reported at the time:
"The life of a spy placed by Israel inside ISIS is at risk tonight, according to current and former U.S. officials, after President Donald Trump reportedly disclosed classified information in a meeting with Russian officials..."
And Trump wasn't even embarrassed or ashamed by his outing a top spy providing anti-Russian intel through Israel to the US, as ABC News noted:
"Trump said in a pair of tweets Tuesday he had the 'absolute right' to share 'facts' with the Russians."
Can you imagine how Republicans would react if Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama had done the same? Would it be three years of hearings and DOJ prosecutions in front of a grand jury - or four? Would they be in jail today?
But Trump's first loyalty was never to America: it was always to himself and his billionaire "good friend" Vladimir Putin, whose war against Ukraine Trump still refuses to condemn.
This month will also commemorate over a million Americans having died from Covid, a death rate unsurpassed anywhere else in the developed world. This, too, lies at the feet of Donald Trump.
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