In addition to the usual insults claiming the president is stupid, ignorant, arrogant, boorish, bigoted, etc., his incessant and implacable critics have escalated their charges, insisting that his words and actions on the foreign policy tour were not only “disgraceful,” “shameful,” “appalling,” and “dangerous,” but actually — “treasonous.” Yes, more than a few politicos and pundits are invoking the T-word. Talk of treason is in the air, and its not only Representative Maxine “Mad Max” Waters (D-Calif.) and the usual ultra-Left crazies that are hurling the treason epithet. CNN analyst Philip Mudd, a “former” CIA/FBI official who is virulently anti-Trump, went so far as to suggest it is time for the “shadow government” operating inside our official government to initiate a coup to remove President Trump.

On Wednesday, Representative Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.) jumped into the treason accusation game, charging that the president’s press conference with Putin “was nothing short of treasonous” and said Congress “must take action to relieve the President of his duties.” The radical Marxist Democrat from Chicago, who has been a friendly comrade to communist regimes and causes, and even a staunch defender of convicted communist terrorists, reiterated his call for impeachment of President Trump. Gutierrez was one of the first of the radical Democrats to call for Trump’s impeachment in November of 2016 — before Donald Trump had even been inaugurated. It may be the ultimate of ironies that extreme leftists such as Gutierrez and Waters are now playing the patriotism card, citing the Constitution, and expressing outrage over “treason.”