Anti-Trump Republican Senator recently took to the Senate floor to rip Trump’s meeting with Putin. The words he used seem to suggest he was accusing President Trump of treason.
According to The Daily Mail:
The Trump-Helsinki summit brought new accusations in Congress Thursday, as GOPSen. Jeff Flake of Arizona accused the president of providing ‘aid and comfort’ to the enemy.
Flake’s choice of words evoked the Constitution’s definition of treason – at a time when President Trump is facing a new level of scrutiny for his refusal to forcefully condemn Russian President Vladimir Putin for election meddling during their summit meeting Monday in Finland.
‘By choosing to reject objective reality in Helsinki, the president let down the free world by giving aid and comfort to an enemy of democracy. In so doing he dimmed the light of freedom ever so slightly in our own country,’ said Flake, a Trump critic who has announced his retirement from the Senate at the end of his term.
Flake referenced the Intelligence Community’s findings that Russia interfered in the presidential election at the direction of Putin and the indictment last week of 12 Russian spies accused of carrying it out.
Flake is not running for re-election and has ramped up his anti-Trump rhetoric over the past year.