Trump says making fun of him is treason!

“I want Schiff questioned at the highest level for Fraud & Treason.”

“Was this person SPYING on the U.S. President? Big Consequences!”

“What miserable drones and traitors have I nourished and brought up in my household, who let their lord be treated with such shameful contempt by a low-born cleric?”

Henry II, referring to ol’ Tommy Becket

It’s sad and scary that the President of the United States seems completely unhinged

As for the whistleblower and the people who fed him his info …

Reporting the President’s secret misdeeds is, of course, not treasonous. The whistleblower laws exist just to allow such reporting.

Moreover, the Constitution is explicit in its definition of treason: “Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort.” (Emphasis mine)

It is almost impossible to commit treason during peacetime, because we have no “enemies,” as defined above. Russia is not our enemy, but merely our geopolitical rival. Even during the cold war, we were not actually at war with the Soviet Union, so the Rosenbergs could not be prosecuted for treason in giving our atomic secrets to Stalin.

It’s a good thing for Trump we are technically at peace with Russia, because the great irony of his accusations is that if we were actually at war with them, Trump himself could be found guilty of treason for withholding that military aid to Ukraine, our ally, after it was approved by Congress!

Additionally, reporting the President’s misdeeds can not be considered spying in the criminal sense of the word. The Espionage Act defines the crime as transmitting or attempting to transmit to a foreign government information relating to the national defense. None of the people accused by Trump attempted to transmit anything to a foreign government, nor did they do anything involving information about the national defense.

3 thoughts on “Trump says making fun of him is treason!

  1. Batshit crazy for sure.

    Next thing you know he’s going to be asking to know who stole the strawberries! (Humphrey Bogart, Caine Mutiny, look it up).

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