How Donald Trump Just Became America’s Biggest Traitor: Political Guru David Rothkopf

Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/Getty/Reuters President Donald Trump’s latest foreign policy maneuver amounts to a betrayal of the United States, political analyst David Rothkopf charged Appearing on The Daily Beast Podcast , the political expert denounced the 80-year-old president’s decision to buy millions of barrels of oil from Russia to fix the diesel dilemma he sparked with his own war with Iran.

Host Joanna Coles asked Rothkopf what strategy there could possibly be behind Trump’s call for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to step down while simultaneously easing sanctions on Russia.

He said there wasn’t one.

“Why are you looking for strategy? This is the product of a diseased mind, OK?” Rothkopf replied.

“He doesn’t know what is going on.

He may even believe this thing that he goes around telling everybody, which is the reason diesel prices are high is because Ukraine is waging a war against Russia.” “First of all, Russia’s the one waging the war against Ukraine,” he continued.

“And secondly, the primary reason that oil and fuel prices are high in the world is Donald Trump’s illegal, reckless war with Iran.” Rothkopf said Trump’s decision was “crazy” and expressed outrage that no one in the president’s inner circle, such as his energy or defense secretaries, had advised him to act differently.

“You would think that his Secretary of Energy [Chris Wright] would have said, ‘You know, Mr.

President, why don’t we buy the oil from somebody else, from Canada, from India, from somebody else who produces more diesel, and not the Russians where it’s illegal?’” he said.

“But nobody said that to him.” “Or his Secretary of Defense [Pete Hegseth] would have said to him, ‘You know, Mr.

President, probably not a good idea to be aiding and abetting our enemy in the middle of a shooting war when the next time a U.S. ship is hit or a U.S. person is hit, people are going to say, rightly, that was partially funded by your tax dollars,’” Rothkopf continued.

He went on to explain that “aiding and abetting an enemy is a crime.” “People would call it treason, except we haven’t actually declared war on these two enemies,” he said.

“So technically, legally, it’s not treason.

But it’s certainly traitorous.” He added, “Well, what would be more aid and comfort to an enemy like Russia, or particularly Iran, than making cash available to them?” Despite Trump’s numerous attempts at “giving goodies to Vlad,” Rothkopf said Putin continues to disrespect his American counterpart.