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Just want to confirm for those of you who wisely don't watch Trump that yes, he did accuse Biden of high treason at his presser—and in so doing implied that not only is Biden a criminal but should be executed. That's how dangerous Trump is. Don't ever forget it. Not for a second.
I think we have a tendency to feel so exhausted by Trump's words that we treat them as meaningful when they're meaningless and meaningless when they're meaningful.
The President of the United States has accused his opponent of treason—and that is *profoundly* vile and dangerous.
The President of the United States has accused his opponent of treason—and that is *profoundly* vile and dangerous.
Trump didn't just name Obama and Biden as part of a group that committed—as he falsely claims—"treason," he said it was the "highest" treason, which is code (I don't know why I call it code, it's actually explicit) for, "this is the sort of treason you get the death penalty for."
And instead of all of America grinding to a halt—with a *refusal* to move forward until Trump retracts his false claim—media imagine that if they ignore it, it didn't happen. But hundreds of thousands saw it live—and millions will hear it spoken of approvingly on far-right media.
Trump is radicalizing his base in a way America has never seen—beyond even George Wallace, if that's possible to imagine, as Trump is painting a picture for his "army" of a world in which Biden is convicted of treason and executed. And he's doing it in daylight, with an audience.
I'm glad Daniel Dale is fact-checking Trump on this. And yet, isn't this the sort of historically vile statement by a president that must be *more* than fact-checked? Shouldn't every GOP pol in America be asked to *immediately* denounce Trump's sick slur? https://twitter.com/ddale8/status/1293307140908748802?s=20
