To me i wonder why Manafort wasn't charged with

[bluestarone]

TREASON? He's a traitor in my eyes

[fleur-de-lisa]

1. Patience.

[Sherman A1]

2. Treason has a very narrow definition

and is much more difficult to prove.

[bluestarone]

4. TRUE!

I'm sure Mueller would have IF he could! BUT in my eyes he's a FUCKING TRAITOR!!

[bearsfootball516]

3. Because by definition, what he did wasn't treason.

https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/americans-have-forgotten-what-treason-actually-means-how-it-can-ncna848651

“Treason against the United States shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort.”

From the article: "In this context “enemies,” for example, must be countries against which Congress has formally declared war or otherwise authorized the use of force."

Since the United States isn't at war with Russia, it isn't treason.

[bluestarone]

5. Gottcha!! TY

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

6. Treason is a Constitutional crime with a very narrow definition.

It's generally interpreted as requiring the enemy to whom aid and comfort was given to be one with which we are at war - that is, a declared war. Nobody has been prosecuted for treason since WWII.

[A DAY IN THE LIFE]

7. Also the Constitution limits the evidence that can be used.

Confession in open court or testimony of 2 eyewitnesses to the overt act.

Have video of the act, too bad, it doesn't count. Emails to the enemy, too bad, doesn't count.