2016 Postmortem
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longship
(40,416 posts)The answer is...
Not only no, but HELL NO!!!
You're serious, aren't you?
triron
(22,240 posts)Only a constitutional attorney can answer that and even they may add a few caveats.
Zambero
(9,762 posts)is not the same as treason, which if proven to exist would be found much higher up in the food chain than individual members of the EC.
I trust this is hyperbole and exaggeration made for effect. If you are serious . . . . I suggest you do some basic reading.
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onenote
(44,628 posts)Some of us have had the label "traitor" thrown at us over the years because we spoke out against the Vietnam War, the Iraq War, the Afghanistan war and were said to be giving "aid and comfort" to the enemy.
Consequently, some of us are pretty sensitive to the looseness with which some people here are now using the terms treason and traitor.
Yo_Mama
(8,303 posts)The government cannot indict someone for political performance/speech, especially when that political performance is representational.
I am awed by your post, but not in a good way.
But people in Trump's campaign can be charged if they are connected to overthrowing the will of the voters by collusion with a foreign government.