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Taking business money from Putin in exchange for election help is treason.
Treason has a colloquial sense and a legal sense.
The Rosenbergs were executed. We call them traitors and say they committed treason.
In fact, the judge that sentenced them to death said they committed treason.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_and_Ethel_Rosenberg
Judge:
I consider your crime worse than murder ... I believe your conduct in putting into the hands of the Russians the A-Bomb years before our best scientists predicted Russia would perfect the bomb has already caused, in my opinion, the Communist aggression in Korea, with the resultant casualties exceeding 50,000 and who knows but that millions more of innocent people may pay the price of your treason. Indeed, by your betrayal you undoubtedly have altered the course of history to the disadvantage of our country. No one can say that we do not live in a constant state of tension. We have evidence of your treachery all around us every day for the civilian defense activities throughout the nation are aimed at preparing us for an atom bomb attack.[29]
I consider your crime worse than murder ... I believe your conduct in putting into the hands of the Russians the A-Bomb years before our best scientists predicted Russia would perfect the bomb has already caused, in my opinion, the Communist aggression in Korea, with the resultant casualties exceeding 50,000 and who knows but that millions more of innocent people may pay the price of your treason. Indeed, by your betrayal you undoubtedly have altered the course of history to the disadvantage of our country. No one can say that we do not live in a constant state of tension. We have evidence of your treachery all around us every day for the civilian defense activities throughout the nation are aimed at preparing us for an atom bomb attack.[29]
But the Rosenbergs were found guilty of crimes under the Espionage act, not under the constitutional definition of treason.
Do not be distracted by rightwing sematicists trying to sabotage discourse by objecting to the definition of treason.
We can and should call what Trump did treason, and we can call him a traitor.
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In return for damaging American democracy and selling out to Putin in office.
Still treasonous. 
