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Sunday, December 13, 2020
The Traitors Among Us
America once used the words “treason” and “traitors” only in cases of actual betrayal of our nation’s most vital secrets or interests. They were profound words, deep with meaning, grim in import, carrying with them the knowledge that the penalty for treason was death.
Be honest: The words “traitor” and “treason” don’t have the sting they once had; they’ve been devalued from mis- and over-use by this president. For Donald Trump, any opposition, either personal, ideological, or political is treason. Anyone who stands in his path betrays the Great Leader. Anyone who fails to take the knee is a traitor.
Like hearing an insult too many times drains it of its potency, Trump has diluted the power of that approbation. He has labeled loyal, dedicated Americans who served this country in the military and law enforcement as traitors, so much so that we could almost give in to the temptation to excuse it as “Trump being Trump” and let it slide like any of the other insults he vomits forth on the daily.
Which is a shame, because America is in the midst of a treason boom right now, and more than a few people in Trump’s immediate orbit — and Trump himself — richly and actually deserve the title of traitor, and the treason inherent in their acts and words is apparent.
Donald Trump Calls William Barr 'Big Disappointment' Over Knowledge of a Hunter Biden Investigation
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-william-barr-big-disappointment-1554335
President Donald Trump criticized Attorney General William Barr in a number of tweets on Saturday following a report in The Wall Street Journal which claimed Barr knew about an investigation of Hunter Biden's finances, but worked to keep it from the public during the election.
Biden, President-elect Joe Biden's son, was a major part of Trump's campaign messaging in this year's presidential election. Trump repeatedly made unsubstantiated claims about Biden's foreign business dealings.
On Saturday, Trump shared a tweet from columnist Todd Starnes calling for Barr to be removed and followed up with harsh comments of his own about the attorney general he appointed.
Israel pushing Trump to back Morocco over Western Sahara
Israel and the U.S. have been discussing a deal that would see the U.S. recognize Moroccan sovereignty in the occupied Western Sahara and Morocco take steps to normalize relations with Israel, according to Israeli and U.S. sources.
Why it matters: This would be a major diplomatic achievement for Morocco's king, Mohammed VI, and a boost for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu — who would get a high-profile public visit to Morocco — in perilous political times.
Intel: Morocco played up Iran rhetoric as it eyed US-Israel deal on Western Sahara
Israel, Morocco and the United States have been pursuing back channel negotiations on the disputed Western Sahara for more than a year, Axios reported on Monday. The deal would reportedly involve Morocco normalizing ties with Israel in exchange for the United States formally recognizing the 1975 annexation of the Western Sahara, which the United Nations lists as a non-self-governing territory.
US official refutes claims of Morocco normalising ties with Israel
US Assistant Secretary for Near Eastern Affairs David Schenker announced on Friday that the possibility of recognising Moroccan sovereignty over the Western Sahara by the US, in exchange for Morocco's normalising of ties with Israel: "Is not on the table at the moment."
In statements to the press circulated by the US State Department, Schenker conveyed that he would not reveal: "The nature of the US diplomatic discussions with these countries. I know that there were several reports earlier this year, and last year, but the issue is not currently on the table."
Schenker refused to go into detail regarding the US F-35 aircraft deal with the United Arab Emirates (UAE). He only repeated previous statements, such as: "The United States government is bound by legal requirements regarding Israel's qualitative military advantage, and the US administration will continue to adhere to this requirement."
Trump’s bribe to Morocco to ‘recognize’ Israel means little — but could inflame a colonial conflict in the Western Sahara
The latest Trump move to bribe an Arab nation into “recognizing” Israel means practically even less than the first 3 “normalizations” — but could inflame a smoldering colonial conflict some 4000 miles to the west of Tel Aviv.
What’s more, one expert even warns that Trump’s bribe might eventually jeopardize global food security.
The Trump/Jared Kushner announcement characteristically exaggerated the importance of the Israel-Morocco agreement, with Trump calling it “a massive breakthrough.” But the two nations have never actually been at war, have privately maintained excellent relations for years, and Israeli tourists have been visiting Morocco without hindrance. Although Kushner said the deal calls for full diplomatic relations Morocco promptly demurred, saying only that it will re-open liaison offices with Israel.
It is Trump’s bribe to Morocco that is causing concern. He said the U.S. will formally recognize Moroccan control over the Western Sahara, the former Spanish colony to its southwest that Morocco has occupied illegally for decades. The Washington Post wrongly called Western Sahara a “disputed border region,” but the United Nations General Assembly and other international bodies regard it as “a non self-governing territory,” and have demanded that Morocco conduct a referendum to find out what its residents want.
Trump’s pursuit of Mideast ‘peace legacy’ is driven by bribery and is fueling conflict
https://www.rt.com/op-ed/509417-trump-mideast-peace-morocco-israel/
Therefore, with bitter irony, the possible Saudi normalization with Israel will give Trump the semblance of great peace-maker in the Middle East. Whereas in reality, that outcome would lead to an ever-more dangerous confrontation with Iran, with the Israelis and Saudis both openly lining up together in a US-led front against Tehran.
How fitting a denouement that would be for Trump’s fake Mideast peace vision, based as it is on bribery, backscratching and reckless self-aggrandizement.
Algeria rejects Trump's stance on Western Sahara
https://www.reuters.com/article/algeria-westernsahara-usa-idUSKBN28M0MZ
Algeria on Saturday rejected a decision by outgoing U.S. President Donald Trump to recognise Moroccan sovereignty over Western Sahara, saying the step would undermine efforts to end the decades-long conflict over the desert territory.
Trump’s administration said it was recognising Moroccan claims to Western Sahara as part of a deal under which Morocco agreed to normalise its relations with Israel.
Moroccan PM slams Trump plan, pledges backing for Palestinians after Israel deal
Morocco’s prime minister on Friday said the decision to normalize ties with Israel as part of a US-brokered agreement would not affect Rabat’s support for the Palestinians.
Saad-Eddine El Othmani, noted Moroccan King Mohammed VI’s phone call
Thursday to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, after US
President Donald Trump announced Israel and Morocco would normalize
relations.
Texas GOP Chair Allen West says SCOTUS setback may call for new 'union' of 'law-abiding states' - a call for civil war?
The leader of the Republican Party in Texas suggested Friday that “law-abiding states” might want to form their own "union," after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected the Lone Star State’s lawsuit over the 2020 presidential election, according to reports.
After the ruling, Allen West, a former Florida congressman who has headed the Texas GOP since July, issued a response.
“The Supreme Court, in tossing the Texas lawsuit that was joined by seventeen states and 106 US congressman, [has] decreed that a state can take unconstitutional actions and violate its own election law -- resulting in damaging effects on other states that abide by the law, while the guilty state suffers no consequences,” West wrote, according to KTVT-TV of Dallas-Fort Worth.
“This decision establishes a precedent that says states can violate the U.S. Constitution and not be held accountable,” West continued. “This decision will have far-reaching ramifications for the future of our constitutional republic.
“Perhaps law-abiding states should bond together and form a Union of states that will abide by the Constitution,” he added.
Short Work by High Court of Trump's `Big One'
A Republican senator, Nebraska's Ben Sasse, delivered a stinging summary of the court's rebuke to Trump and his allies. Sasse said "every American who cares about the rule of law should take comfort that the Supreme Court — including all three of President Trump’s picks — closed the book on the nonsense.” Sasse, a potential 2024 presidential candidate, has been one of the few Republicans willing to criticize Trump.
Trump schemes next political moves after effort to overthrow democracy dead ends at Supreme Court
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/12/12/politics/donald-trump-supreme-court-pfizer-vaccine/index.html
Trump "put a huge stress test on our democracy," GOP election lawyer Ben Ginsberg said, reflecting on the destruction that the commander-in-chief has wrought by undermining US election processes and jeopardizing the safety of countless election workers as he pursued frivolous lawsuits that were scorned even by judges he appointed.
Despite the court's solid conservative majority -- and the fact that Trump named three of the justices seated on the court -- there were no noted dissents to the court's order, which essentially said that Texas has no grounds to challenge how other states conduct their elections.
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