Did Trump Commit Treason at Putin Meeting? Here's What Lawyers Say

Newsweek ^ | 7/17/18 | Shane Croucher

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There are many things you can accuse President Donald Trump of. And treason is now apparently one of those after his controversial press conference with Russia’s President Vladimir Putin at their summit in Helsinki, Finland. But do lawyers agree?

“Donald Trump’s press conference performance in Helsinki rises to & exceeds the threshold of ‘high crimes & misdemeanors,’” tweeted John Brennan, the former CIA director. “It was nothing short of treasonous. Not only were Trump’s comments imbecilic, he is wholly in the pocket of Putin. Republican Patriots: Where are you???”

Brennan’s premise is that at the press conference, Trump appeared to side with Putin over America’s own intelligence agencies on the issue of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.

Putin denies what the U.S. intelligence community is telling Trump—that the Kremlin used cyberwarfare to undermine American democracy. And Trump, whose 2016 campaign is under investigation by Special Counsel Robert Mueller over suspicions of collusion with the Russian government, seems to believe Putin.

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I’m not a lawyer, but my understanding is that you can only be charged with treason if we’re at war with a country.

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RE:”I’m not a lawyer, but my understanding is that you can only be charged with treason if we’re at war with a country.”

The author takes a while but eventually gets around to that.

Expanding treason in the way some Dem nutbags are ,Obama’s deal with Iran could be treason.

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No, I’m not going to give footnotes, do your own research, it’s all online.

Good, we are tired of hearing this B$. Obama is not NBC no matter how much you read. There is accepted practice of granting citizenship to anchor babies but there is certainly no black letter law. If a female citizen drops a baby of a foreign National male the country of the male has citizenship claims on his progeny and you know it.