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Rep. Lieu: Defending Trump is ‘Cultish, Un-American, Treasonous’

Sunday on MSNBC’s Alex Witt Reports, viciously hateful Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA) smeared “MAGA Republicans” defending former President Trump after the FBI raid of his Florida estate as being engaged in “cultish, un-American, treasonous behavior.”

Asked about former George W. Bush administration official John Yoo’s statement, “Why not declassify the documents they actually took from President Trump and show the public what they were?” Lieu replied, “John Yoo’s comments are insane. What he is saying is, he would want top secret documents and documents that are beyond top secret to appear on the front pages of the New York Times, on your show so that I can see them my dentist, my neighbor and the Russians and the Iranians, solely to protect Donald Trump. This is cultish, un-American, treasonous behavior. You cannot just declassify all these documents and put it into the public domain simply to prevent Donald Trump from prosecution. That is a very treasonous argument, any MAGA Republican making it should be ashamed of themselves.”

He added, “He knew that they were classified, and he intentionally took them. I also note that if the MAGA Republican argument is that these should be declassified, then they have got to ask themselves, why do we want to names and locations and against these of U.S. spies out there in Vanity Fair? That is an insane argument.”

So many statements here to debunk, so little time. Suffice it to say that Lieu’s argument that the documents contained national security secrets, that Trump stole them, and that “MAGA Republicans” want to dox our own spies is the one that’s “insane.” There is no truth to anything Lieu said — or that he has ever said. MSNBC is a leftist propaganda outlet and Lieu is a leftist smear merchant.

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Ted Lieu

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Lieu detested Republican Donald Trump from the moment the latter was elected President in 2016, and he never viewed Trump as a legitimate president – not even for even the briefest moment. The congressman first registered his contempt for Trump by joining dozens of fellow Democrats in boycotting the Inauguration in January 2017. A few days later, Lieu asserted that “our leader is potentially unhinged … and that is highly disturbing.” Wherever Trump’s name appeared in Lieu’s press releases, the congressman placed asterisks linking to a footnote that said: “In addition to losing the popular vote, Trump … is in violation of the Emoluments Clause … of the U.S. Constitution due to massive conflicts of interests and his refusal to put his global business holdings in blind trusts. Trump also benefited from Vladimir Putin ordering a multifaceted and brazen Russian influence and cyber hacking campaign with the goals of undermining faith in the U.S. democratic process, denigrating Secretary Clinton’s electability, and helping Trump’s election chances. Trump and his press secretary also routinely make stuff up.” Moreover, Lieu’s website featured a “Cloud of Illegitimacy Clock,” which measured the length of Trump’s “illegitimate” term in the White House...

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