On Sunday, Breitbart’s Joel Pollack said the House Judiciary Committee report released Saturday on the legal and constitutional framework for impeaching President Trump suggests the president may have committed treason.
Article III, Section 3 of the Constitution states:
Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court.
The Congress shall have Power to declare the Punishment of Treason, but no Attainder of Treason shall work Corruption of Blood, or Forfeiture except during the Life of the Person attainted.
According to U.S. Code:
Whoever, owing allegiance to the United States, levies war against them or adheres to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort within the United States or elsewhere, is guilty of treason and shall suffer death, or shall be imprisoned not less than five years and fined under this title but not less than $10,000; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States.
But, Pollack said, House Judiciary Democrats expanded the definition, stating: “Although the Framers did not intend impeachment for good faith disagreements on matters of diplomacy, they were explicit that betrayal of the Nation through schemes with foreign powers justified that remedy.”
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Pollack added:
The phrase “schemes with foreign powers” is sufficiently vague to include the “quid pro quo” plan that Democrats allege the president attempted to make with Ukraine, trading U.S. aid for investigation into a political opponent.
(No direct evidence exists to prove that claim, and the only direct witnesses testified before the House Intelligence Committee that the president did not want that “quid pro quo.”)
Later, the report again implicates President Trump in “treason” by creating an expansive definition that just happens to reflect Democrats’ argument that Trump endangered national security by suspending security assistance to a U.S. ally.
According to the report:
At the very heart of “Treason” is deliberate betrayal of the nation and its security. Such betrayal would not only be unforgivable, but would also confirm that the President remains a threat if allowed to remain in office. A President who has knowingly betrayed national security is a President who will do so again. He endangers our lives and those of our allies.
We double-checked, and discovered that the word, “treason,” appears no less than 41 times in the document, which can be seen here.
Jerrold Nadler, the Democrat coup leader currently running the Judiciary Committee, tweeted:
The Framers worst nightmare is what we are facing in this very moment. President Trump abused his power, betrayed our national security, and corrupted our elections, all for personal gain. The Constitution details only one remedy for this misconduct: impeachment.
— Rep. Nadler (@RepJerryNadler) December 7, 2019
Pollack notes the report, written by Democratic staffers, “does not rule out charging Trump with treason at any point in the text, and seems to have been written to make doing so a possibility.”
Impeaching Trump would be bad enough, but to do so on the basis of a trumped-up (no pun intended) and bastardized notion of “treason” could very easily cause outrage the likes of which we haven’t seen in over 150 years.
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