PRESIDENTIAL TREASON

THE TREASONS OF PRESIDENTS

Acts of War

Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 was an Act of War. This attack has been defined by convention and treaty to be a hostile act of war. It fits the concept of an attack via sea, land, air by opposing states.

The attack on the twin towers was at the time something new. It was an attack by a new kind of entity that does not fit the definition of a “state” or a “nation. The United States had to create new and still disputed definitions of an act of war, states, soldiers, and other legal concepts in order to go to war in Afghanistan and create the Guantanamo Bay detention camp.

 

In 2016 the United States government considered the cyber-attacks by Russia and others to be hostile acts. These attacks were unrecognized in law as acts of war. No convention or codes has been developed to cover cyber war.

There has been a de facto cyber war between the 

United States and Russia, but the law lags behind. The American response was that of certain diplomatic and economic sanctions.

Treason

 Section 110 of Article III of the Constitution 

of the United States, declares that:

"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."

It is likely that President Trump committed

 treason against the United States if he 

negotiated and colluded with the Russian 

government regarding the sanctions imposed 

on it by President Obama. It is important to 

note that the United States and the Russian 

governments are in a cyber war.

  

Donald Trump

The ongoing cyber war includes cyber-attacks on the United States’ elections and a retaliation by the United States. Presidential candidate Trump’s campaign in 2016 aided and comforted (if true) Russia in it levying a cyber war on the United States by negating the retaliatory sanctions imposed by President Obama.

Special prosecutor Mueller seems to be developing at least two witnesses’ testimony against President Trump’s possible treason. This treason occurred before President Trump took office, while he was a private citizen.

Presidential candidate Trump was not the first American presidential candidate to have been accused of treason. Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan were also alleged to have committed treason in order to win their respective presidential elections.

Richard Nixon

Nixon interfered with President Johnson’s negotiations for a cease fire in 1968. Nixon convinced the South Vietnamese government to boycott the cease fire talks. By doing this Presidential candidate Nixon violated President John Adams' 1797 Logan Act, banning private citizens from intruding into official government negotiations with a foreign nation.

Nixon’s interference was likely treason because the United States was at war and the delays caused by Nixon led to many seemingly unnecessary deaths which aided and comfort the North Vietnamese government.

Ronald Reagan

It has been alleged that Presidential candidate Ronald 

Reagan entered into negotiations with Iran delaying the 

release of the American hostages.It is disputed that Ronald 

Reagan's 1980 presidential campaign negotiated a secret 

deal with Iran to prevent the release of American hostages 

until after the 1980 presidential election.

One of the accusers is Gary Sick, a Middle East specialist 

who helped handle the Iranian hostage crisis as a member of 

the White House staff in the Carter Administration. Mr. Sick

 said in a New York Times editorial that he heard what he 

considers to be reliable reports that a secret deal involving 

the hostages was begun during two meetings between an 

agent representing Reagan and the Iranian cleric in a Madrid

 hotel in July 1980.The hostages held by Iran were not 

released until after the 1980 elections. They were released on 

January 20, 1981 just a few minutes after Reagan was 

inaugurated.

Final Thoughts

President Johnson did not reveal Nixon’s treason in order to

spare the country more divisiveness during wartime. There

apparently was not enough evidence against Reagan to bring

 charges he delayed the release of the American hostages in 

Iran.

With President Trump the circumstances seem to be that he 

has very powerful enemies.  His nemeses have set upon him a 

bulldog of a prosecutor, Robert Mueller. President Trump is 

likely to face the same fate as Richard Nixon.