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DonViejo

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Thu May 17, 2018, 05:13 PM May 2018

It's Not a Liberal Fantasy to Ask if Trump Committed Treason - By Former Rep Tom Coleman (R-MO)



This is a fairly simple case. Why aren’t more people comfortable seeing it?

TOM COLEMAN
05.17.18 5:24 AM ET

Tom Coleman is a former Republican Member of Congress from Missouri and an attorney. He has served as an adjunct professor of government at New York University’s Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service and at American University.

Under the Constitution an individual commits treason if the nation is at war and the person provides aid and comfort to the enemy. This is an impeachable offense, committed by word or deed. It's one that individuals need to start grappling with seriously because it is not some far-fetched liberal fantasy to conclude that Donald Trump may have committed treason.

In fact, the case is fairly simple to make.

The U.S. intelligence community’s assessment of Russian activities in the 2016 presidential election concluded that Russia tried to influence the outcome through the dissemination and weaponization of information stolen from the Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee. The thirteen Russian operatives indicted by the Special Counsel for waging a disinformation campaign through our social media platforms and other internet media, described their activity as “information warfare against the United States of America.”

The question we must now ask is were these Russian cyber attacks merely crimes on a massive scale, or, as cyber expert George Lucas asks, do they represent something different — acts of war? And if a state of war existed between the two nations, could the actions and comments of Donald Trump and his campaign officials therefore be considered treasonable?

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