TRUMP’S “LET THEM TAKE OUT L.A.” IS TREASON. IMPEACH HIM FOR IT - 10.8.26

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Quote, The United States shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort. Article 3, Section 3, Clause 1 of our Constitution. This is not QAnon here. I am now not going to say enough of this crap. He's now endorsed nuking LA and or San Diego, and everything in between, and three days time has elapsed, and somehow he is not yet in a Navy brig. Now come, I am not going to say he should be arrested and detained like an hour from now. I still believe in the rule of law and what's in the Constitution. Although when it comes to Trump, don't argue with me too long, because I may give in to you. But the war he started and lost in Iran, and the economic crash he caused and keeps accelerating America is, according to Trump, a quote, small price to pay for keeping the world safe, keeping our country safe, because, quote, they could take out a city. Let them take out Los Angeles. Let them take out San Diego. The American Heartland cheered. F, MAGA in the American Heartland, our expansion team states. But let them take out Los Angeles. Let them take out San Diego. Let them.

Treason against the United States shall consist only in levying war against them or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort. Let them take out Los Angeles. Let them take out San Diego. So Trump is cool with Iran nuking LA to teach the rest of us some sort of lesson that we haven't been grateful enough to his fat ass.

Even if he really meant it just as some sort of hypothetical fighting its way through the self-absorbed mud pits of his brain, that is the way he sees a nuclear attack on American cities killing millions of Americans and precipitating a world war. Let them.

Even if it's men in the hypothetical, in the imperfect way of grammar, well, let them and you see what happens. Then no, F you, Trump, up yours.

When we impeach Donald Trump again, and God willing, there will be an Senate majority and enough Republicans facing re-election in 2028 who will vote to convict and remove. Because there will be. Detrumpification is underway. We'll get to that next. When we impeach Donald Trump early next year, it should include at least partial quotation of Article 3, Clause 3, Section 1 That, what he did in that speech is the definition of giving aid and comfort to the enemies of this country. The Constitutional Law Center has been kind enough to define aid and comfort. An enemy of the United States is a person, a partnership, or other group of individuals who live within the territory of any nation of the United States is at war with. It also includes governments of any nation with whom the United States is at war. So not only did he say that to the government of Iran, this one, and it's not just what he said about LA and San Diego. By the way, the corridor between those two cities is where all the MAGA in California live. Nice work, Don. Let them kill my supporters, my few supporters in California.

In March of this year, President S. Stain freed up $14 billion of Iranian oil, the money for which went to the government and the oil companies of Iran and invested in Iran, because that was supposed to lower the price of a barrel of oil by like a dollar for like a week. He didn't just say let Iran nuke Los Angeles. He said, I'm giving them $14 billion with which to do it, and more immediately to kill American troops in the Middle East.

Iran could take out a city, let them take out Los Angeles. Even the Republicans stood up and took notice about this. Trump's Congressional candidate in the California 48th, a Navy vet named Jim Desmond, about as California Republican in name as you could find, slammed Trump's, you know, treason. Desmond said, quote, no American city is expendable, and no American family should ever be treated as collateral damage. The first responsibility of our Commander in Chief is to protect the American people and our homeland, unquote. I don't know anything else about this man. I don't know what else Desmond has said. This makes up for whatever else he might have said. He gets the idea. There is a line. Donald Trump has crossed it repeatedly. He should be impeached. He is a traitor. He has committed treason. He has committed treason with many different countries who are enemies of the United States as defined by the Constitution.