Trump promotes Liz Cheney's 'Treason' comment on Twitter

President Trump on Monday promoted Representative Liz Cheney’s suggestion that some FBI officials may have committed “treason.”

He tweeted: “Liz Cheney: Statements by agents investigating Trump ’could well be treason,” and shared a link to Cheney’s assertion.

She made the comment during a Sunday appearance on ABC’s “This Week,” first recalling the messages between former FBI employees Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, which included talk of an “insurance policy against this president.”

“That, in my view, when you have people that are in the highest echelons of the law enforcement of this nation saying things like that, that sounds an awful lot like a coup,” Cheney added. “And it could well be treason. And I think that we need to know more.”

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That remark came not long after Trump made a very similar allegation.

Last week at a press event, a reporter asked him: “The Constitution says treason is punishable by death. You’ve accused your adversaries of treason. Who specifically are you accusing of treason?”

“Well, I think a number of people,” Trump replied. “They have unsuccessfully tried to take down the wrong person.”

“If you look at [James] Comey; if you look at [Andrew] McCabe; if you look at probably people higher than that; if you look at Strzok; if you look at his lover, Lisa Page, his wonderful lover — the two lovers, they talked openly,” Trump continued. “You know, they didn’t use their private server because they didn’t want to get caught, so they used the government server. That was not a good move.”