I’ve been looking at the whole Russia collusion thing simply and logically and as best I can tell, if Trump’s claim that there was no collusion by members of his campaign is actually true, then that may actually be worse for him, personally.
Premises:
1: Let’s assume for the sake of argument, that what 45 has been saying is true: there never was any collusion or conspiracy between the Trump campaign and agents of the Russian government to help Trump win the White House.
2: Let’s also accept what every thinking person already knew, our intelligence agencies all concluded and the Mueller Report confirmed—agents of the Russian government engaged in a wide-ranging scheme to influence the U.S. Presidential election in 2016 with the goal of getting Trump elected.
3: Let’s also accept as true the Mueller Report’s findings that Trump himself engaged in multiple attempts to stop, derail or otherwise hinder the Mueller investigation into what happened in the 2016 U.S. Presidential election and who was responsible for it, through lies, witness intimidation, subornation of perjury, etc.
Conclusions:
President Trump obstructed justice with the goal of preventing investigators from understanding the Russians’ 2016 attack on the U.S. electoral process.
The purpose of this obstruction may have actually been something as lame as protecting Trump’s ego from having to accept the fact that he only won the presidency with the help of a foreign espionage campaign. However since we’ve accepted for the purpose of argument that no members of his own campaign were involved in the attack, Trump’s actions to hinder the investigation had the de facto consequence of protecting (or attempting to protect) only foreign actors who committed an act of war against the United States.
Essentially, what we’re talking about is Watergate, except that the people engaged in corrupting the American election (and whom the president sought to protect) were all agents of a foreign (enemy) government.
How is this not treasonous?
Per Article III, section 3 of the U.S. Constitution:
Treason against the United States shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort.