{"id":13166,"date":"2022-02-28T18:22:01","date_gmt":"2022-03-01T02:22:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldcampaign.net\/?p=13166"},"modified":"2022-02-28T18:22:01","modified_gmt":"2022-03-01T02:22:01","slug":"opinion-romney-is-right-maga-republicans-are-almost-treasonous-washington-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldcampaign.net\/?p=13166","title":{"rendered":"“Opinion: Romney is right: MAGA Republicans are \u2018almost treasonous\u2019”, Washington Post"},"content":{"rendered":"

By <\/span>Jennifer Rubin<\/a>, Columnist, Opinion, Feb. 28, 2022<\/p>\n

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Donald Trump spent four years (plus a year campaigning) cozying up to and helping further the geopolitical aims of Russian President Vladimir Putin. If Putin had handpicked an agent to be president of the United States, he could hardly have expected better results; Trump certainly exceeded any expectations Putin might have had with fawning admiration, disparaging<\/a> NATO, extorting Ukraine by withholding <\/a>military aid, leaving Russia\u2019s election-meddling unpunished, inviting<\/a> Putin back into the Group of Seven and attacking<\/a> our own intelligence community. To this day, the defeated former president continues<\/i><\/a> to praise Putin (\u201csmart\u201d), continues<\/i> to denigrate the United States (\u201cdumb\u201d) and our allies.<\/p>\n

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Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) talks to reporters at the U.S. Capitol on Feb. 15. (J. Scott Applewhite\/AP)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah), ridiculed as a presidential candidate in 2012 for identifying Russia as our primary international foe (he was premature but prescient), on Sunday called out Putin\u2019s admirers<\/a> in his own party as \u201calmost treasonous\u201d:<\/p>\n

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