Trump declared a ‘traitor’ who ‘switched sides’ by Nobel-winner

Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman accused President Donald Trump of betraying the United States on Tuesday, branding him the “Traitor in Chief” over his increasingly open support for Russian President Vladimir Putin.In a Substack post, Krugman argued that the contempt Trump and his inner circle show for democracy and the rule of law amounts to contempt for America itself.Krugman seized on remarks Trump made Monday outside the White House. “Russia, frankly, has been fine on Ukraine, they haven’t been doing much,” Trump told reporters, adding, “We’ve given a lot to Ukraine, they’ve given us nothing.” Hours earlier, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said a Russian strike on a park in the Kharkiv region had killed six people, including children.“Previous administrations have made deals with erstwhile adversaries, as Nixon did with China, and given up on support for failing allies, as the U.S. did in Vietnam and Afghanistan,” Krugman wrote. “But never...