Analysis: Why Trump’s accusation of treason against his critics is wrong
By Philip Bump Philip Bump National correspondent focused largely on the numbers behind politics Email Bio Follow March 26 at 10:35 AM Twice on Monday, members of the Trump administration invoked treason to describe components of the now-completed investigation by special counsel Robert S. Mueller III.
In a phone call with The Washington Post, Carlton F.W. Larson, professor of law at the University of California at Davis and author of the upcoming book “The Trials of Allegiance: Treason, Juries and the American Revolution,” explained why “treason” is the wrong word here. Being an agent of a foreign government isn’t itself necessarily treason. It’s not good, of course, but you can be an agent of, say, France without committing treason for the simple reason that we’re not at war with France. "There are people out there that have done some very, very evil things, very bad things — I would say treasonous things — against our country,” Trump said in the Oval Office.
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