‘Traitor’: Protesters heckle Trump’s 2016 inaugural chair Tom Barrack as he walks into court

Former President Trump’s billionaire friends Tom Barrack on Monday pleaded not guilty in a Brooklyn court to federal charges of illegally lobbying for the United Arab Emirates.  A small crowd was waiting for the private equity investor as he arrived at court and pelted him with insults.  ‘It’s our democracy,’ shouted one man in video … Read more

Trump supporters mob Sen. Lindsey Graham at Reagan Airport in DC, call him a ‘traitor’

Sen. Lindsey Graham made enemies with MAGA supporters this week, which he learned firsthand at Reagan Airport on Friday. Graham was in the airport near Washington D.C. when he had a run-in with a number of vocal Donald Trump supporters.  The Trump loyalists confronted Graham after he backed down from his pledge to contest the Electoral … Read more

Trump says he will ‘look very strongly’ at pardoning Edward Snowden after calling him a ‘traitor’

Edward Snowden’s book, Permanent Record, was released last year.  It offers by far the most expansive and personal account of how Snowden turned from obscure NSA worker to whisleblower, a move which set off a national debate about the extent of government surveillance by intelligence agencies desperate to avoid a repeat of the September 11 attacks.  … Read more

Our selection of brilliant military histories: When Churchill was labelled a traitor

TO WAR WITH THE WALKERS by Annabel Venning (Hodder £20, 336 pp) WAR BOOKS OF THE YEAR  TO WAR WITH THE WALKERS   by Annabel Venning (Hodder £20, 336 pp) Wars are fought not by politicians and generals, but by ordinary people called on to do extraordinary things. Like the brothers and sisters of the middle-class … Read more