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TwilightZone

(25,464 posts)

4. Nope.

Reply to flibbitygiblets (Original post)

Sat Mar 28, 2020, 04:21 PM

Mar 2020

Treason requires an armed conflict with a declared enemy, so it doesn't apply.

Besides, Trump's "wartime president" nonsense is the bleating of an eight-year-old and little more. In a just world, he'd be laughed off the stage.

He's guilty of plenty of other things, though.

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If the US is "at war" against the virus, isn't trump guilty of treason? [View all] flibbitygiblets Mar 2020 OP

I have been assured by more than one trumper that he is doing a FABULOUS job Eliot Rosewater Mar 2020 #1

I'm sure the South thought that of Jefferson Davis, too--for a while, anyway. DFW Mar 2020 #2

War crimes. murielm99 Mar 2020 #3

Nope. TwilightZone Mar 2020 #4