Brennan: I didn’t mean that Trump committed treason

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Brennan: I didn’t mean that Trump committed treason
By Jacqueline Thomsen - 08/18/18 01:02 PM EDT

Former CIA Director John Brennan said that he didn’t mean President Trump had committed treason when he called Trump’s press conference with Russian President Vladimir Putin “nothing short of treason."

Brennan clarified the comment during an interview Friday, after MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow said Brennan said the press conference “rose to treason.”

The former CIA director disputed the characterization of his "treason" tweet, saying that he felt compelled to make the comment after Trump sided with Putin’s denials of Russia's election interference.

“And for Mr. Trump to so cavalierly so dismiss that, yes, sometimes my Irish comes out and in my tweets,” Brennan said. “And I did say that it rises to and exceeds the level of high crimes and misdemeanors and nothing short of treasonous, because he had the opportunity there to be able to say to the world that this is something that happened.”

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http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/402473-brennan-i-didnt-mean-that-trump-committed-treason

[Sanguine]

That wasn't his Irish, that was something else entirely.