"He[Trump] betrayed our country and I don't say that lightly,"
When pressed the only evidence he could supply was:
1) Trump had a private meeting with Putin and every word spoken has not been made public
2) Trump is taking us out of Syria
3) Trump wants to take the US out of NATO
4) Trump wants Russia to keep hacking US elections
These are all either lies or insane distortions of reality.
1) Historically the details of US Presidents meetings with heads of other countries are not made public. Swalwell doesn't claim to know that anything "traitorous" was discussed. To him the mere fact that Trump hasn't made public the transcript of the meeting is a sign of treason.
If you want to see an example however of presidential malfeasance with Putin one needs look no further than Obama. Back in 2012 Obama told the President of Russia, Dmitry Medvedev, that he should tell Putin that Obama would have more "flexibility" to deal with Russia after the election. The only reason we know this is that Obama was unaware that his microphone was on. Obama's intent was to conceal from the American people that he was lying to us about how he would deal with Russia. In fact Obama intended to be more supportive of what Putin wanted than he was telling us.
Strangely Swalwell doesn't consider lying to the people about going easy on Putin by Obama is traitorous but not publishing the meeting notes by Trump is.
2) Since the start of the war in Afghanistan in 2001 Democrats have been telling us that we shouldn't be involved in wars in the Middle East. Yet now that ISIS has been defeated, due to Trump, those same Democrats are saying it's treason to withdraw our troops from Syria.
Remember under Obama when the Syrian government, which is a client of Putin's, used chemical weapons against their own people Obama turned Syria over to Putin and allowed Putin to oversee the destruction of Syrian chemical weapons. Given that we know that Putin didn't do that, if he had the subsequent use of chemical weapons that occurred when Trump was president couldn't have happened, it's clear that Obama was doing what was best for Putin.
Further when Assad, Putin's buddy, used chemical weapons against his people again unlike Obama Trump bombed the Russian client's airfield.
What Swalwell is saying is that allowing Assad to use chemical weapons against civilians with no retaliation by Obama and giving Putin more power in Syria was ok but Trump saying we shouldn't have boots on the ground forever in Syria is treason. Note that Trump has said that US withdrawals will be conditioned on ensuring the security of our allies the Kurds so unlike Obama's strategy in Iraq and Libya--mess the country up and then leave so as to facilitate the growth of terrorism-- Trump is just saying that we shouldn't have American men and women dying forever in Syria.
3) Trump doesn't want to take the US out of NATO. What he's said is that if NATO won't work to defend itself he doesn't see why the US should continue to pay for the defense of Europe. Since WWII Europe has funded massive welfare programs using the money it should have spent on defense and counted on US taxpayers to pay for the defense of Europe.
So Trump's "treason" is that he's said the American people are tired of subsidizing the defense of Europe. Obama on the other hand stopped the deployment of an anti-missile defense system in Europe that Putin didn't like. Even better Obama's move alienated our allies because it not only did it appease Putin it was announced on the anniversary of the Soviet invasion of Poland. Yet in the extremist mind of Swalwell that's just fine.
Interestingly Trump's tough talk has caused NATO nations other than the US to increase defense spending by $100B thereby reducing the burden that the US carried under Obama to defend Europe. That makes sense since the GDP of the NATO countries is on par with the US GDP so they should be paying their fair share.
4)Trump's comment about the Russian hacking was a joke. We can tell because when he made it he and his audience laughed. At the time Hillary had admitted to illegally deleting 33,000 emails without allowing the government to verify that they weren't government related. Trump joked that maybe the Russians could find those emails that Hillary had deleted. Trump has never made any comment that said that he was in favor of Russians hacking our election.
On the other hand Obama has admitted knowing about Russia's attempt to influence the 2016 election and he did nothing serious to stop it. Yet Swalwell doesn't seem bothered by that.
In contrast to the baseless issues Swalwell is raising we have a number of reasons to believe that Trump is not Putin's puppet:
1) Trump is demanding that Putin's client in Venezuela, the dictator Maduro, step down
2) Trump got Germany to stop a multi billion dollar natural gas deal with Russia which would have given Putin hundreds of billions of dollars
3) Trump attacked Putin's client in Syria which Obama refused to do
4) Trump has gotten NATO countries to dramatically increase their defense spending
5) Trump has increased US defense spending
All of these are things that Putin would not want to happen, things that directly hurt Putin. Unlike Swalwell's claims these are things that we know happened and which we know that Putin didn't like.
Swalwell is the one who is "betraying" our country by lying about our President in an attempt to ensure that Democrats get more power over the American people.
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