| | | Trump Will Not Rule Out Death Penalty For Comey, McCabe For Treason
Carmine Sabia
thefederalistpapers.org
President Donald Trump has not ruled out invoking the death penalty for the people who spied on his campaign in 2016.
Speaking to reporters on Friday he directly accused FBI directors James Comey and Andrew McCabe and agents Peter Strzok and Lisa Page of treason.
“Sir, the constitution says treason is punishable by death. You’ve accused your adversaries of treason. Who specifically are you accusing of treason?” NBC reporter Peter Alexander said.
“Well I think a number of people, and I think what (sic) you look is that they have unsuccessfully tried to take down the wrong person.
“If you look at Comey, if you look at McCabe, if you look at probably people higher than that. If you look at Strzok, if you look at his lover Lisa Page, his wonderful lover.
“The two lovers they talked openly. You know they didn’t use their private server because they didn’t want to get caught, so they used the government server. That was not a good move,” he said.
Alexander talked about the exchange on Twitter where he explained that the president did not flinch at the prospect of the death penalty.
“The president names names when I asked him who, specifically, he’s accusing of treason, which can be punishable by death,” he said.
Does Comey belong in prison?
It was not the first time that President Trump had accused them of treason, but not directly by name, though many are running scared of his decision to declassify documents.
Former CIA and intelligence officials are getting frightened now that President Donald Trump has decided to declassify documents related to 2016 campaign spying.
They have bed led by John Brennan, the former head of the CIA and a CNN and MSNBC contributor, who is not thrilled with his decision.
“The concern is that very, very precious source and methods of the United States intelligence community as well as our partners and allies abroad — those who share this sensitive information with us,” he said on MSNBC on Friday, The Daily Caller News Foundation reported. |
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