During the Vietnam War, actor Jane Fonda traveled to Asia. She was photographed with the enemy of the United States and faced heavy criticism for these photos. Over the years, Fonda has explained that she did not intend any harm with these old images, but her reputation still suffered. Many people viewed her protest of America’s involvement in the Vietnam War as an act of treason.
No formal charges were ever brought against Fonda for her controversial actions. However, a former Trump advisor has recently brought up Fonda’s troubled past during a Fox News segment and accused the aging actor of committing “treason” when posing for the pictures in 1972.
Former senior Trump White House advisor Stephen Miller made these comments against Fonda during a Wednesday broadcast on Fox News.
While speaking on the conservative channel, Miller accused the two-time Academy Award-winning actress of high treason for flying to Vietnam in 1972 and condemning American involvement in the war on Vietnamese radio.
In one photo from her Vietnam visit, Fonda was pictured straddling an anti-aircraft gun that would have been used to shoot down American pilots and planes over Vietnam.
Fonda has recently reappeared in the public limelight through her activism work. Throughout Trump’s single term in office, she staged protests in Washington D.C. and was even arrested at least once. Now, she is urging President Joe Biden to cancel Trump’s pipeline plans that were put in place while he was in office.
Now, Miller is turning to Fox News to fight Fonda and defend the Trump pipeline from getting canceled by Biden.
“What she did in the Vietnam War… people may have forgotten this,” Miller said about Fonda. “She volunteered herself as a tool of North Vietnamese Communist propaganda. She did North Vietnamese propaganda broadcasts on their radio station.”
He added, “She sat on their anti-aircraft battery that’s used to shoot down American planes and American airmen. This is by any definition, and I am going to use the word, what she did is treason. And she was held up as a hero?”
Long ago, Fonda apologized to American veterans for the “Hanoi Jane” photo. However, she did not regret her anti-war activism.
“I was trying to help end the killing and the war, but there were times when I was thoughtless and careless about it, and I’m very sorry that I hurt them,” she told Barbara Walters back in 1988.
Recently, Fonda attacked President Biden for failing to stop the Trump pipeline quickly enough. She also said that Biden has not done “enough” to address the environmental disaster brought about by the pipeline.
“We’re very, very grateful for what he’s been doing. He’s done a lot of very good things. But not enough. Not bold enough. And not fast enough. We’re up against time,” Fonda said. “The scientists say we have less than nine years to cut our emissions in half. Line 3 is going in the absolute opposite direction, and the news every day is telling us, emissions are going up, not down.”
“So we have to put our bodies on the line and do whatever we can to get our administration to call a halt to these permits,” she added.
Do you agree with Miller that Fonda is a traitor?