You're playing "gotcha" word game with me just as you played them with Trump with Sweden. The Democrat Senator and many other Democrats claimed that Trump colluded with a foreign power to influence an election. If, true, that could put Trump in jail for years after being impeached. The Senator's implication is that he's a traitor.
Oh, ok...you want him to apologize because he IMPLIED that Trump was a "traitor"...he didn't actually call him a traitor, he just implied it...
So, is that the same as Trump "implying" Obama tapped his phones:
"
Terrible! Just found out that Obama had my "wires tapped" in Trump Tower just before the victory. Nothing found. This is McCarthyism!"
So...I'm playing "gotcha" word games?
Words have meaning, well, ok, unless they come out of Trump's mouth or twitter feed...
Last Week Tonight‘s John Oliver had a really funny segment (yeah, sorry, he's a Brit making fun of Trump on American TV–so what?). He quoted a CNN editor Zachary Wolf saying, in all seriousness, “
This is what makes covering Donald Trump so very difficult: what does he mean when he says words?”
Zach actually said that out of shear frustration at trying to explain why it is so hard to cover Trump.
So, really Alan, reread what you wrote and tell me if you aren't at least just a little bit embarrassed by your position?
The President of the United States of America, Donald J Trump shouldn't apologize for saying Obama had his "
wires tapped" and calling it
McCarthyism until Senator Chris Coons apologizes for simply implying Trump might be a traitor...and the fact he walked back his bombshell declaration about transcripts showing Russia-Trump collusion, saying he had no proof such documents exist and apologizing for any “hyperventilating.”
“I have no hard evidence of collusion,” Mr. Coons told “Fox News Sunday.”
He said he was sorry for any misinterpretation of his comments, which blew up on social media after a Friday interview on MSNBC.
So, that ain't good enough for you to maybe conclude that
The Orange One might need to eat some crow and take back his accusation a tiny bit?
Pretty sure that's what Spicy was trying to do in todays press briefing...poorly btw.
‘If he’s not joking’: Sean Spicer loses it when NBC reporter asks ‘when can we trust the president?’“You said, ‘They may have been phony in the past but it’s very real now,'” Alexander said, quoting Spicer’s words back to him. “When should Americans trust the president? Should they trust the president, is it phony or real when he says President Obama was wiretapped?”
“He doesn’t really think that President Obama went up and tapped his phone personally,” Spicer explained. “But there’s no question that the Obama administration, that there were actions about surveillance and other activities that occurred in the 2016 election. That is a widely reported activity that occurred back then.”
“The president used the word wiretapping,” the press secretary continued, gesturing air quotes, “to mean, broadly, surveillance and other activities during that.”
Later:
Alexander replied: “The bottom line is the question is still not answered. Can you say affirmatively that whenever the president says something, we can trust it to be real?”
“If he’s not joking!” Spicer exclaimed.