I may read it at some time in the future.
Government officials of nations who are our allies willingly participated in the attempted overthrow of the United States Government. And I have to believe that the leaders of those nations are profoundly shocked, and they now understand the gravity of what happened. They understand that members of their own government conspired with members of the United States Government and media allies to commit what amounts an ACT OF WAR.
As my President explained, this has never happened before in the history of the United States. A new look at what constitutes Treason is warranted. Different Federal Judges need to look at that bar.
The Founding Fathers also set it high, far higher then most countries. The “Bloody Assizes” of Judge Jeffry’s was still in their historical memory. Marshall set it higher still! It even got set higher in practice by the fact that the Confederate leadership was not brought to trial for treason. They clearly met Marshall’s standard, however wiser heads prevailed. Back to our problem, there are plenty of major felonies to convict these people on without resorting to a treason indictment. Let them go to trial on that. It will be hard enough to conduct. A treason trial will be spun to look like a Moscow Show trial something out of Koestler’s “Darkness at Noon” ! Or do you want to control what the press can say about it? Beside at some point there will be a Rat administration again, “What goes around comes around!”. You do treason trials now, you’ll watch and cheer , later you’ll be in front of the judge with different emotions ! I would prefer that precedent not be set!