Donald Trump blasted the Biden-Harris administration for their "Communist left rhetoric," after he was the subject of a second apparent assassination attempt at one of his golf courses in Florida on Sunday.
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"During Donald Trump's presidency, the UC Davis law professor Carlton Larson spent a lot of time on the phone telling journalists: "It's not treason."
Trump's behavior towards Russia: not treason. All the FBI investigations Trump labeled as treason: also not treason.
Then came the 6 January attack on the Capitol by hundreds of Trump supporters. That was treason according to the founding fathers, Larson wrote in an op-ed the next day.
But in the three months since 6 January, however, there has been little public discussion of "treason" as the framework for understanding what happened, Larson said.
"Everything was Treason, treason, treason,' when it wasn't, and now you have an event that is closer to the original 18th-century definition of treason than anything that's happened, and it's almost silent. Nobody is using the term at all," he said."
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