On the 31 documents listed in the indictment that Motherfucker stole (Part 2)

[Fiendish Thingy]

34. I rarely watch tv news

I know from discussions here and elsewhere what the TV lawyers are blathering about.

Most, (but not all) of them bashed Garland, but many of them also have been adamant that Trump’s crimes don’t meet the criteria for treason.

That doesn’t prove anything with certainty, but I have not seen any serious (meaning not a fringe CT person) voice out there in the legal world making the argument that treason can be charged for aiding a foreign nation against the US, if the US hasn’t declared war on that nation.

There’s a reason the DOJ hasn’t prosecuted treason since WWII. Occam’s razor, seeking the simplest path to an answer, would suggest it is because the US hasn’t been legally at war (that is, declared by congress) with another nation since then. Numerous individuals, from the Rosenbergs to Jane Fonda, have aided and abetted America’s adversaries, yet none have been charged with treason, and many have been charged with espionage, seditious conspiracy, and other crimes.

Your point seems to be that the lack of prosecutions for treason since WWII doesn’t prove the definition of the statute; my point is, the few prosecutions of treason in the past century do indeed prove the widely accepted definition of the statute.