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Based on what is already known about Flynn, I would support an actual treason charge, followed by a swift execution.

I think the real loss here is the continuing era of a media with two apparent dichotomies. Sure, all journalists are biased one way or another and sure we're biased too. But it's gotten to the point that these realities are being amplified by yellow journalism for the sake of partisanship. Fox News has perfected this. They amplify and blow up seemingly irrelevant news when it suits their demographic. I don't think the "liberal" media is guilty of much here and even if they were, the ambivalence on part of Fox News is emblematic of just that. When's the last time a general was appointed National Security Advisor while under investigation, receiving payments from a foreign government, telling the President about it, augmenting foreign policy to suit a foreign power, lying to other administration officials, getting removed from office, and now invoking the 5th amendment for a Senate Foreign Intelligence committee subpoena?

If you stil think that all of this hype is "liberal" in nature then you are just what Fox News wants. To push that divide and wedge the country further apart in pursuit of ratings and political favorability.

I'm 31 years old, I've closely followed politics half of my life, and I've never seen anything like this. But people dismiss it even while Fox News anchors start sounding alarms (towards the end of last week). And you know why? Probably because their ratings were dropping in the essential 25-54 demo at peak hours because they decided to turn a blind eye to unfolding news or dispute it altogether. If this becomes something big and people remember when Fox News missed it...maybe their ratings will implode for choosing viewers over holding an administration to account. I hope it does. Because there are so many misled people in this country right now because of it.