Congressman Hakeem Jeffries puts "treason" into Trumpzi context

Donald Trump is unworthy, unwise and unhinged when he inappropriately called "treasonous" the people who didn't applaud his failed and daunting State of the Union 2018 teleprompter speech.

Congressman Hakeem Jeffries Democrat of New York - an eloquent speech about the audacity of "treason"

Republicans must be wearing ear plugs and using political blinders over their eyes to pretend this leadership behavior is normal.  Rather, Donald Trump is into bullying, telling lies and creating incendiary rhetoric to antagonize our political divisions while doing absolutely nothing to improve our human condition.

Now, Trump has the disrespectful audacity to call those us "treasonous", for finding his terrible State of the Union speech to be a remedial reading exercise.  Here's what the eloquent Democratic Congressman Hakeem Jeffries of New York said in his perfectly toned rebuttal speech to Donald Trump:

Reported in The Washington Examiner and in The Hill

The Washington Examiner headlines:  

Hakeem Jeffries to Trump: 'How dare you lecture us about treason' ~ reported by Melissa Quinn

Democratic Rep. Hakeem Jeffries slammed President Trump for suggesting it was treasonous for Democrats not to applaud during his State of the Union and questioned whether the president and his officials have themselves engaged in treasonous acts.

“Treason is not a laughing matter,” Jeffries, of New York, said during a speech on the House floor Tuesday. 

“(Treason)....It is a serious crime embedded in the Constitution, punishable by death. But since your commander in chief chose to raise it at a political rally, let’s have a discussion about treason.”

Jeffries then questioned whether it was treason for a presidential campaign to “meet with a hostile foreign power to sell out our democracy and rig the election.” 

Jeffries also asked whether it is considered treason for members of Trump’s presidential campaign to “meet with Russian spies who promise information that was negative about a political opponent, and then fail to report that meeting to law enforcement officials.”

The New York Democrat was referencing a meeting Donald Trump Jr., then-Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, and Jared Kushner attended at Trump Tower in June 2016 with a Russian lawyer. Trump Jr. said he attended the meeting after being promised damaging information on Hillary Clinton.

Jeffries further questioned whether it was treason for Michael Flynn, Trump’s former national security adviser, “to be a Russian asset sitting at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. doing the bidding of Vladimir Putin.”

Flynn was fired in February 2017 for lying to Vice President Mike Pence about his contacts with then-Russian ambassador Sergei Kislyak.

“How dare you lecture us about treason,” Jeffries said of Trump. “This is not a dictatorship. It’s a democracy, and we do not have to stand for a reality show host masquerading as president of the United States of America.”

Trump said during a speech in Ohio on Monday that Democrats who didn’t clap during the State of the Union last week were “un-American” and “treasonous.”

"You're up there, and you have half the room going totally crazy wild. They loved everything; they want to do something great for our country," Trump said. "And you have the other side, even on positive news, really positive news like that, they were like death. And un-American, un-American."

"Somebody said treasonous. I mean, yeah, I guess why not,” he continued. “Can we call that treason? Why not. They certainly didn't seem to love our country very much."

White House spokesman Hogan Gidley told NBC News on Tuesday (another case of the lies perpetrated by Trumpzi puppets) that the president’s remark was “tongue in cheek.”

And here is the headline in The Hill:

Dem lawmaker to Trump: 'How dare you lecture us about treason' ~ Reported by Rebecca Savransky

Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) on Tuesday tore into President Trump after he accused Democrats on Monday of "treasonous" behavior during his State of the Union address.

Jeffries said Tuesday that treason is "not a laughing matter" but rather a "serious crime embedded in the Constitution, punishable by death."

"But since your commander in chief chose to raise it at a political rally, let's have a discussion about treason," he said.

"Is it treason for a presidential campaign to meet with a hostile foreign power to sell out our democracy and rig the election?"

Jeffries further questioned whether it was treason for a presidential campaign to "meet with Russian spies who promise information that was negative about a political opponent and then fail to report that meeting to law enforcement officials."

He appeared to be referring to a 2016 Trump Tower meeting that included Donald Trump Jr., White House adviser Jared Kushner, former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and a Russian attorney.

"How dare you lecture us about treason. This is not a dictatorship. It's a democracy," Jeffries said.

"And we do not have to stand for a reality show host masquerading as president of the United States."

In a speech Monday, Trump suggested that Democrats not clapping for his address were guilty of treason.
"They were like death and un-American. Un-American. Somebody said, 'treasonous,'" Trump said Monday.

"I mean, yeah, I guess, why not? Can we call that treason? Why not? I mean they certainly didn't seem to love our country very much."

Trump added the Democrats "would rather see Trump do badly than our country do well," saying that was "very selfish."

MaineWriter- Donald Trump is a selfish, childish idiot. He has done zero - nothing at all- to demonstrate competent leadership or to improve the human condition.  Name calling is the only tactic he knows how to use, to ignite division and thereby force getting his own way.