Does Donald Trump exhibit traitorous behavior? Do many of his Enablers also fit that category? The evidence indicates yes. What is going on?

For nearly three years, the United States has dealt with the question of collusion between the Trump campaign  and the Russians during the 2016 election. More recently, Trump and Senate Majority Leader “Moscow” Mitch McConnell’s relations with the Russians and, particularly, their President, Vladimir Putin, has suggested suspicious and surreptitious behavior. Now it’s Trump and the Ukrainians. The evidence is in and it’s damning.

Last week, as the story continues to play-out, it was revealed that a government “Whistleblower” formally alerted the Inspector General of the Department of National Intelligence that Trump had requested—on more than one occasion—for the new President of the Ukraine to pursue an investigation of Joe Biden’s son, Hunter, for corruption in his dealings with specified Ukranian economic and political leaders. Given that Biden seems to be Trump’s most formidable opponent for President, along with the fact that promised American military aid to Ukraine was suddenly withheld prior to the request, there are certainly new grounds for investigating a possible offer of a quid-pro-quo: “join with me to assist my re-election and you will get the promised delayed aid.” Of course, Republicans in Congress and Trump’s other Enablers are, without evidence to the contrary, defending him.

Of course, given the fact that Trump’s “personal” attorney, Rudy Giuliani has, for many months, both publicly and privately been trying to pressure Ukraine’s leaders to investigate Biden, and there exists a just revealed admission by the President that he and Rudy were involved, what we may be seeing is nothing more than an audition for a new version of the film “Dumb and Dumber.”

But, that ignores reality—Trump’s track record accords with both being stupid and perfidious. Asking a foreign country to assist with your campaign is certainly stupid (especially when government officials usually listen to and transcribe a president’s conversations with foreign leaders). Being dumb is also not an excuse for treasonous behavior. Additionally, Republican defenders who collude in obstructing the truth from being revealed, are accessories to what is likely criminal and/or treasonous behavior.

As more admissions are made and facts revealed, Trump may get Congressional assent to the impeachment he so readily deserves. But there is another solution—vote Trump and Congressional Republicans out of office. At least in terms of the President, there is no reason why both processes—electoral defeat and impeachment cannot proceed during the year up to the 2020 election. Since Trump is unlikely to be convicted by a majority Republican Senate, why not? The fact that he will have been impeached is what matters; the election can take care of the rest if the voters respond. That is likely to be the existential challenge that we must all face in the days ahead.

Addendum: Public release of the so-called “Whistle-Blower” complaint,  provides further evidence of Trump’s disloyal behavior. Now, thanks to this this new information, Attorney General Barr, White House lawyers, et al, should soon be regarded—at the minimum—as participants in the same national security cover-up.