Trump has not committed treason, but he is a traitor.

[shockey80]

Traitor; To betray. A person who betrays anothers trust or is false to an obligation or DUTY. A person who is not loyal to his country.
A traitor says one thing and does another. Trump , Manafort, Stone and others are all traitors.

Trump is traitor and the Mueller report better fucking prove it. I am tired of this fucking traitor and I am tired of the stupidity of the Trump voters. I am tired of the news media not calling out Trump for who he really is, A fucking traitor.

[shockey80]

1. I forgot to add this.

I do not believe Trump has committed Treason. However, if he gave away secrets to Russia or others that could be treason.

[Eyeball_Kid]

2. I'm not sure how that works.

Can one be a traitor without committing treason? Can one commit treason without being a traitor?

IMO, they nearly completely overlap. I think that, in the final analysis, it won't matter, and that it will be a distinction without a difference.

[shockey80]

6. Yes.

[shockey80]

7. Russia cannot be officially labeled our enemy because we are not at war. Treason is for war time.

Officially Trump cannot be charged with treason. Now if Trump gave secrets to Russia that is a whole new ball game.

Trump is a Traitor because he broke his oath of office. He failed to protect, defend America. He denied Russia attacked us because the person who attacked us told Trump he didn't do it. That's the definition of a traitor.

[Tetrachloride]

3. Unsubstantiated hypothesis on "treason"

Your original post does not contain the word "treason" except in the headline. Thank you for your followup post.

This is a very good topic.

I surmise that a great many DU members agree that there is a strong possibility of treason as defined by law.

Among these, stealing or colluding to steal the presidential election and therefore Office of the President in my book is treason. The lawyers among us may debate these words.

In conclusion, DU members and Robert Mueller, please bring the full force of evidence and law to this topic.

[Sneederbunk]

4. And then there is North Korea. Meeting in Hanoi no less.

Ho Chi Minh must be laughing his ass off.

[Hortensis]

5. We all know what treason is as far as we're concerned.

What 300,000,000 people think matters, not just the narrow definition used by the federal judicial system.

No matter what legal findings and charges turn out to be, Trump is a traitor because he has betrayed, i.e., committed treason against, our nation, and the same goes for many other of today's Republicans in and out of government.