The repetition doesn’t do him any favors: The more Trump goes to the American public every few months with a new “biggest scandal in the history of our country,” the more people learn to roll their eyes and tune out.

But on a related note, there was a related point the president emphasized this week that stood out for the same reason.
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At a Tuesday event in the Oval Office, the Republican president explicitly endorsed the Justice Department targeting Obama, suggesting that the former Democratic president is “guilty” as part of a scheme that Trump considers “treason.”......

At one point, after one of his first-term State of the Union addresses, Trump even suggested that congressional Democrats might have committed “treason” because they failed to applaud to his satisfaction.

In 2023, he declared his belief that members of the bipartisan Jan. 6 committee “should be tried for Fraud and Treason.” A year later, the Republican amplified a social media message that accused former House GOP Conference Chair Liz Cheney specifically of being “guilty” of “treason.”

You’ve heard of the boy who cried “wolf”? I’d like to introduce you to the president who cried “treason.”

It’s not at all healthy when a president with an authoritarian streak falsely — and casually — accuses assorted people and institutions of “treason,” effectively making this the background noise of our civic lives. And yet, here we are.