NBC News Historian Michael Beschloss was on Rachel Maddow’s show earlier this evening, and he had this to say about the Trump-Putin fiasco in Helsinki today:
Here is a more complete transcript of video above:
”We are living in a national emergency. We may not have known it twenty-four hours ago. We do now. You know, I have been studying and writing about U.S. Presidents since I was twenty years old. I never thought I would live to say this, but this is a president who now has demonstrated that he deserves suspicion as acting on behalf of another country over his own."
Indeed, when we watched Trump appear right next to Putin, and say, “America has been foolish”, that was game over. Trump is a traitor. Period.
Later on Rachel’s show, she said that a spontaneous protest is beginning to form outside the White House. (Update: See annieli’s diary about this: www.dailykos.com/...)
When the always understated Michael Beschloss says we’re in a national emergency, believe him.