Democratic Party leadership and mainstream media, give up the pretense and call a spade a spade.

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48. Elected officials speak on the record, all the time...

As such, they need to be careful that they do not open themselves up for legal action.

It certainly appears that Trump is a traitor, that he is breaking laws, that he is making decisions to the benefit of Russia and the detriment of the US. We certainly see that. However, it is different than those things actually being factual.

I agree with you that the Democrats should be using more assertive and forceful language to point out how Trump is seeming tearing down all of the institutions that have shaped America into the nation that the world has respected over the last 150 years.

It isn't necessarily diplomacy, though I do get irritated when the congressional "niceties" are continually observed by the Democrats and never by the Republicans.

Democratic politicians should be point out what Trump's actions "look like" not calling him a "traitor" because a Traitor is a legal definition that has fallen into the vernacular, but within legal and political contexts is can have significant consequences.

I would say, "Donald Trump definitely says things that are untrue, inaccurate, and misleading. If he is doing it intentionally, then he is a liar. If he is doing it out of ignorance, then he is showing how unfit he is to be the leader of the most powerful nation on earth and proving that Hillary Clinton was right about him not having the temperament to lead".