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There are four ways Donald Trump may be guilty of treason
From RawStory: There are four ways Donald Trump may be guilty of treason, says law expert:
Former Assistant Secretary of State and international human rights expert John Shattuck said this week that President-elect Donald Trump must welcome a thorough investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election because the questions it raises leave him vulnerable to charges of treason.
“A specter of treason hovers over Donald Trump,” Shattuck wrote in the Boston Globe. “He has brought it on himself by dismissing a bipartisan call for an investigation of Russia’s hacking of the Democratic National Committee as a ‘ridiculous’ political attack on the legitimacy of his election as president.”
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“There are several possible explanations for Trump’s position” in avoiding an investigation, said Shattuck. “They are not mutually exclusive.”
In each of these scenarios, the president-elect is engaging in behaviors that fall under the definition of treason, Shattuck wrote, which is committed by a person “owing allegiance to the United States who…adheres to their enemies, giving them aid or comfort.” The crime of misprision of treason is committed by a person “having knowledge of the commission of any treason [who] conceals and does not disclose.”
1. Trump may be attempting to shore up his political standing ahead of the meeting of the Electoral College on Monday.
2. He may be trying to undermine public confidence in U.S. intelligence agencies so that when he is inaugurated in January, he can “intimidate them and have a freer hand in reshaping the intelligence product to suit his objectives.”
3. He may be testing to see whether the American public is willing to follow his lead over that of the intelligence community and “follow his version of the truth about national security threats.”
4. He may be attempting to cover up evidence of “involvement or prior knowledge by members of his campaign team or himself in the Russian cyberattack.”
2. He may be trying to undermine public confidence in U.S. intelligence agencies so that when he is inaugurated in January, he can “intimidate them and have a freer hand in reshaping the intelligence product to suit his objectives.”
3. He may be testing to see whether the American public is willing to follow his lead over that of the intelligence community and “follow his version of the truth about national security threats.”
4. He may be attempting to cover up evidence of “involvement or prior knowledge by members of his campaign team or himself in the Russian cyberattack.”
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