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"The evidence against Trump and Russia is huge and mounting every day,"
declared liberal celebrity activist Rosie O'Donnell at a protest in front of the White House last week. "We see it, he can't lie about it," she added. "He is going down and so will all of his administration."
"The charge is treason," O'Donnell declared. Protesters held held large letters that spelled it out: "
T-R-E-A-S-O-N."
O'Donnell is by no means alone in her sentiments. Trump's guilt in "
Russiagate" is now assumed by much of the American left, and reaches greater levels of fervor with every passing day.
This kind of partisan religiosity is not new.
In the wake of the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq, conservative pundit Ann Coulter accused war opponents of "
treason" and
insisted of Saddam Hussein, "We know he had weapons of mass destruction."
Coulter was confident and she wasn't alone.
Virtually the entire mainstream American right-from pundits like Coulter and Sean Hannity to President George W. Bush and the Republican Congress-was deeply invested in the notion that Hussein possessed WMDs and that the Iraq war was justified based on that unshakeable premise. This belief was so ingrained for so long that many
excitedly rushed to
pretend that chemical weapons discovered in Iraq as
reported by the New York Times in 2014 were somehow the same thing as the "
mushroom cloud" the
Bush administration said Saddam was capable of.
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