The accusation is nothing new in the right-wing vocabulary — Ann Coulter, the president’s sometimes adviser, sometimes adversary — wrote a book on the topic. Larson, a professor at the University of California at Davis School of Law and an expert on treason, said the president had cheapened the word through overuse. “It is a complete debasement of political discourse where ordinary political disagreements are elevated to a level of capital crime,” Mr. Larson said. “I want to know who’s the person who gave the whistle-blower the information, because that’s close to a spy,” Mr. Trump said. With spies and treason, right?

Source: New York Times October 01, 2019 22:52 UTC