Everyone is numb and in shock
Reactions to the Trump-Putin press conference:
Everyone is numb and in shock. We can’t believe what we just witnessed, but for me it’s this simple: The President of the United States openly colluded with Putin to undermine our democracy.
— Ryan Lizza (@RyanLizza) July 16, 2018
This is the darkest day in American history. A halfwit traitor stood in front of the world and applauded an evil, authoritarian enemy while disparaging the good people of his own country. Fuck everything Trump, the GOP and the people who voted for him stand for.
— Rogue WH Snr Advisor (@RogueSNRadvisor) July 16, 2018
The only way this analogy holds is if you imagine Chamberlain at Munich denouncing the Royal Air Force and personally leaking to Hitler the secret of radar https://t.co/EitHF94Slu
— David Frum (@davidfrum) July 16, 2018
Treason.
— Norm Eisen (@NormEisen) July 16, 2018
In plain sight.
Three days after indictments of Russian military officers, a week after Russia murdered a British citizen on British soil, Trump says our relationship with Russia is getting stronger and criticizes Democrats and the media. Somehow even worse than expected.
— Matthew Miller (@matthewamiller) July 16, 2018
Has a US president ever so explicitly sided with the leader of a hostile foreign power over his country’s own intelligence agencies? "I have real confidence in my intelligence people, but I must tell you that President Putin was extremely strong & powerful in his denial” -Trump
— Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) July 16, 2018
Donald Trump’s press conference performance in Helsinki rises to & exceeds the threshold of “high crimes & misdemeanors.” It was nothing short of treasonous. Not only were Trump’s comments imbecilic, he is wholly in the pocket of Putin. Republican Patriots: Where are you???
— John O. Brennan (@JohnBrennan) July 16, 2018
Trump’s post-meeting statement was even worse than most imagined it would be. He stood next to Putin and attacked the American media and the Democratic Party but refused to confront Putin for attacking our democracy. Disgraceful.
— Ryan Lizza (@RyanLizza) July 16, 2018
From a national security expert who has supported President Trump: “Played like a fiddle. Unmitigated disaster. Embarrassing.”
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) July 16, 2018
At the very end, I attempted to ask Trump if he told Putin to stay out of US elections (as he said he would last Friday). No response.
— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) July 16, 2018
When I first heard and read the term ‘collaborator’ used of the wartime French, I assumed it was a Resistance-coined insult.
Reading ‘The Unfree French: Life Under the Occupation,’ by Richard Vinen, I learned that Petain himself had proudly declared a ‘new era of collaboration’ and promoted the concept as patriotic. And, within the French establishment, there were plenty willing to go along.