Not because they were "levying War" against the U.S., as the Constitution defines treason.
Not because they were working with an enemy foreign power, which is also how the Constitution defines treason.
No, he accused Congressional Democrats of treason for failing to applaud his State of the Union address.
It's tempting to focus on his unbelievable childishness. He comes off like a five-year-old whining that Mommy and Daddy weren't paying attention.
However, that's the merest distraction. The issue, of course, is that he accused fellow Americans of treason.
Their actual "crime"?
Failing to adore him.
Let that sink in for a moment.
His defenders will paint his remarks, at a putatively official presidential visit to Ohio that looked a lot like a campaign stop, as mere bluster. They will say that he was riffing on a remark from the crowd, just playing to the audience for laughs.
They are wrong. He was smiling, yes, but at the thought of jailing his political enemies. For Dear Leader, being his political enemy is treasonous.
But suppose for a moment they're right, that it was all a joke. Here's the problem: you don't joke about treason.
Repeat: you do not joke about treason.
Not when you're the president of the United States.
The president does not have the same license to joke on such matters as ordinary citizens. From the man in charge of the Department of Justice, such remarks read less as jokes than as threats. Especially when that same mouth has repeatedly pronounced his belief that the only loyalty he honors is to him — not the Constitution, or the nation.
If Dear Leader wants to make such jokes, let him leave office. He can then make all the jokes he wants.
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