Is There a Reason to Call It Treason?

A Reign of Terror or a Reign of Error?

The only crime defined specifically in the Constitution is treason. You’ll find it in Article III, Section 3. While Congress is empowered to change by legislation the penalties for treason, it cannot change the definition with a Constitutional amendment.

Here goes: Treason against the United States shall consist only in levying war against them or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort. No person shall be convicted of treason unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act or on confession in open court.

That’s the Constitution and the definition is close to being written in stone. Constitutional scholars recognize treason as the “highest of all crimes.” Right now, the penalty for treason is imprisonment and death. The first persons accused of treason were Philip Vigil and John Mitchell during the Whiskey Rebellion, but they were pardoned by George Washington. So traitors have always been with us. The first person executed for treason within the United States was John Brown, the abolitionist, who was executed in 1859 for his role in a slave revolt at Harper’s Ferry. Lesser known but equally hanged was Aaron Dwight Stevens who was in cahoots with John Brown. In the Civil War, William Bruce Mumford was convicted of treason when he tore down a Union flag that was raised over New Orleans. He was hanged in 1862 for what seemed like a less-than-death-penalty kind of crime. A guy working for National Geographic named Douglas Chandler was convicted of treason in 1947 for defecting to Germany during World War II; he got a pardon from John F. Kennedy. Tokyo Rose (Iva Toguri D’Aquino) was convicted of treason in 1949 and pardoned by Gerald Ford.

The most recent person convicted of treason against America was Tomoya Kawakita in 1952. Born in the United States but raised in Japan, this dual-citizen was in Japan during World War II and abused American prisoners of war. Almost100 former prisoners testified against him at his trial. Kawakita did not deny the charges but claimed it wasn’t treason since he was a Japanese citizen at the time. The case went all the way to the Supreme Court who maintained Kawakita was a dual citizen and thus, as an American, guilty of treason. He was convicted, only to be released by John F. Kennedy who deported him to Japan under the provision he never return.

Was the Biden Presidency Treason?

Most people who watched the news, availed themselves of the internet, and possessed open minds knew that Biden was cognitively impaired even as early as 2020. As with many neurodegenerative disorders, his condition worsened progressively but not linearly. He was better in 2020 than he was in 2024, but his decline seemed to occur in fits and starts. There were months where he seemed to plateau, but sometimes we suddenly saw evidence of profound impairment. By 2022, it was hard to conceal. By 2024, even Democrats had to admit the old man was mentally not up to the job. After the disastrous debate with Trump and before Biden’s removing his name from the nomination, Democrat pundits and shills and the entire legacy media were still applauding Biden as being mentally fit and extraordinarily good in office. That is, until the Democrat party bosses abruptly forced him out of the race realizing that he wouldn’t be able to go the distance.

But Joe Biden stayed in the office and completed his term. His cabinet met only nine times the entire time he was President and not at all in the last year. Even MSN news reports that cabinet members and their staffs had to pose questions or get guidance from Biden’s staff and never from the old man himself. Lindy Li, former Democrat fundraiser, said it was evident to everyone that Biden was not running the show,but it was the elephant in the room—nobody would talk about it since admitting it exposed the “snitch” to cancellation. The Democrats say MAGA is a cult, but nobody is more cult-like in their lockstep obedience than the Democrat party after receiving “orders from headquarters.” Democrat policy was that Biden was mentally fit. Case closed.

Of course, everybody knew that wasn’t true, but only MAGA, podcasters, and conservative media talked about it. We knew. Anyone who in 2024 argued like Joe Scarborough of Morning Joe that “this was the best Biden ever” was lying.

Biden mostly disappeared. On those rare occasions that he spoke to the press, he took softball questions only and sometimes wandered off to end the briefing. He often carried note cards, sometimes with pictures, so he would be able to identify the people in the room. He mumbled and then would suddenly make fists and yell through clenched teeth.

More than once Biden stated that he would “get in trouble” if he talked about a certain subject. Who was he afraid of? Who was bossing him around and telling him what he could and could not say?

Most of his executive orders were signed with an autopen, meaning he did not sign them. It is not clear if he knew about them. What competent executive—let alone the leader of the free world—would allow somebody else to use electronic signatures on his behalf?

Most of the mainstream media was complicit in this. While a meme of Trump dressed as a pope has caused most of the liberal journalists in D.C. to go apoplectic, having a befuddled president hidden away at a super-secure beach house was not (they put up security and privacy walls at a cost of $500,000 to U.S. taxpayers, making his beach house the only house in the area with a purposely obstructed view of the beach). The media became a vicious and foolish pit bull that protected Biden. The media assured us it was normal for the President to disappear for half of his term on vacation. No president holds press conferences. It’s natural for a president to be unavailable to answer questions. The reason Biden never went to East Palestine during that terrible train wreck was that no president has ever visited a disaster site, ever. And don’t forget, Joe Biden is awesome, he’s like Washington and Churchill rolled into one.

Like anyone believed that! As Karine Jean-Pierre assured us, Biden “ran circles around everyone” at the White House, being the most vigorous and fittest person in the entire D.C. Metroplex.

So why did the Democrats prop up a mentally incompetent man in the White House? Things were still getting done—not good things, but things nonetheless. Executive orders were being signed. The traditional Easter events at the White House were replaced by Trans Day of Visibility and where kids were treated to some very visible naked breasts on the White House lawn by a proud activist. Joe threw billions at climate grifts. He kept the printing presses at the Treasury humming, churning out devalued money. His landmark legislation was the Inflation Reduction Act, which ironically caused inflation to soar. Crime rates spiked, drag queen story hours got funded by taxpayers, and pornographic books invaded elementary school libraries. Taxes went up, so did prices, but it was counteracted by employment rates going down. Everybody was poorer and, strangely, seemed to get fatter.

So while Biden was busy lapping up ice cream, sniffing and biting little kids, and sprawled out half-comatose on a Delaware beach, some things were getting done. A total of 160 executive orders were signed with Joe Biden’s signature, although few by Biden the man. That may not seem like very many—and it’s not. On average, starting at 1969, the president signed on average 269 executive orders while in office. Trump in his first term signed 220. More were signed by Obama (277), George W. Bush (291), Bill Clinton (354), and the champion, Ronald Reagan (381). The difference here is that those presidents actually knew what was being signed. Even if an autopen was used, they were in the room and aware of the content of the order. They understood the orders, could discuss them, even defend them. Biden seemed oblivious to them.

When Robert Hur was assigned as special prosecutor on the Biden case of improper retention of classified materials, he determined that, quite clearly, Joe Biden was guilty. (The Hur audio interviews with Biden are expected to drop soon.)

• Joe Biden as Vice President had no right to be in possession of the documents—let me put it another way. Biden stole those documents.

• The documents were classified—a President like Trump can declassify any record any time without any fanfare but a Vice President cannot.

• They were stored haphazardly in the garage of one of the Biden’s residences as well as at a few locations like a university library with no real system. In other words, he didn’t safeguard them.

• Biden showed and discussed some of this stolen top-secret material with a writer working on a Biden book. They were materials on Afghanistan which Biden kept in a folder which bore the label—in his own hand—AFGANISTAN. (He couldn’t even spell the country he was destroying.)

If this were Trump, they would have him at Alcatraz right now, even before it’s renovated.

But Hur reached a curious conclusion. He said Biden was absolutely guilty and yet he was just a good-natured but confused old man. He didn’t know what he had done, it would have been hard to get him to answer charges. That seems bizarre to me because in America, people with diminished capacity stand trial all of the time. And if a person has such diminished capacity that he is unable to stand trial, he is automatically committed to a mental hospital for “restoration of capacity.” Thus, if Hur were following the law, Biden should have been sent to the courthouse or the nuthouse. There is no legal path that says a person guilty of a crime but unable to stand trial because of mental incompetence should remain president. Or even remain out of federal custody.

The 25^th Amendment

The Constitution allows a president to be removed from office. Sometimes this removal is voluntary, like Nixon’s resignation. Sometimes he might die in office, like John F. Kennedy. He can also be removed through impeachment (hasn’t happened yet but not for want of trying) or being incapacitated. That would have helped the first time we had an incapacitated president. The incapacitated President was Woodrow Wilson who suffered a stroke in office. The word is that his wife ran the White House while he rested, nearly unresponsive. Before the internet, it was easier to get away with that kind of stuff.

The way the 25^th Amendment should have worked is that Biden should have been recognized as being unfit to hold the office. While I would be happy to point out Biden’s many character defects and argue against his ridiculous policies and make the case that he was the most corrupt man to disgrace the Oval Office in history—being unfit for office is not a moral failing. It’s a medical diagnosis. It seems to me that he had Parkinson’s and some form of cognitive impairment on top of it. A doctor could give a better diagnosis, but you don’t have to hold an M.D. to know a motor disorder and dementia when you see it. Biden was clearly unable to carry out his duties. He couldn’t remember people’s names. He did not always know where he was. He could not answer questions coherently. He told weird stories (remember Uncle Bosey who was eaten by cannibals? Or how everyone in Pennsylvania had “oil cancer”? Corn Pop? Or launching his plan to build a railroad over the Indian Ocean?) He sniffed babies and groped and slobbered over little girls like AquaLung.

Even on his best day, he was not fit to hold the Presidential office.

The law says that the Vice President plus the majority of the cabinet (defined as “the principal officers of the executive departments”) are to go to the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House with a written letter if they believe the President is incapacitated. It is the letter and those who hand-deliver it that seals the deal—its presentation to Congress is a formality. Once the letter accepted by the heads of the two houses of Congress, the Vice President assumes the office. It happens instantly.

Curiously, Kamala Harris was both Vice-President and President of the Senate. And she would have assumed the Oval Office if she could get the Cabinet to sign off on that letter. I do not know why she did not do this. Had this happened, Harris would have been President and we would have had the first Indian-American President in history.

By the Constitution, Joe Biden would have had the opportunity to contest her Presidency, and then there is a complicated process of wrangling it out that ends up with Congress having to vote on it, with a two-thirds majority required in both houses to boot the President out. In other words, the Constitution gives the “incapacitated” President the advantage to reclaiming his office.

Was it treason to not invoke the 25^th Amendment? Granted, it would have made Harris look sort of villainous. And it is not clear to me that Congress would have gone along with the decision to the tune of 2/3 of both chambers. Plus, it would have thrown the Democrat Party into more of a tizzy than it is already in.

But shouldn’t we have tried to invoke the 25th Amendment? And the bigger question: was it treason that we did not even try?

Cui Bono?

So who benefits (“cui bono?”) by leaving an incapacitated man at the helm of the world’s largest superpower? You could argue that the Bidens benefited richly: they got power, a White House address, security details, and lots of grifting opportunities. They are leaving the White House with millions and that’s just the grift we know about. They also had the pardon pad, so that a drug-addicted ne’er-do-well like Hunter could walk away from a life of crime unscathed. Jim, Frank, Valerie, Jill, Ashley, Hunter, and even cousin Caroline Biden all benefited. But if we had a competent press and a serious, ethical government, Biden would have been recognized as unfit for office and sent onto his retirement.

Who benefited? Well, obviously somebody was running the government.

• Somebody formed and executed the disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal. American service men and women died. And Afghani women have lost their rights in that country—it is illegal now in Afghanistan for a woman to speak in public. Plus they outlawed music and musical instruments

• Somebody arranged to send billions seemingly every other day to Zelenskyy without demanding even an audit or a thank-you. Zelenskyy got so much money so fast, he can’t even account for it all

• Somebody shut down the Keystone Pipeline

• Somebody bombed the Nordstream pipeline (there is some speculation that it was whoever was playing Biden at the time)

• Somebody encouraged boys in girls’ sports and allowed people with gender dysphoria to go into the military where they could not be deployed to front lines but got all their medical bills paid for transition surgery. Most Americans do not support this and nobody much was lobbying for it

• Somebody left the Southern border open

• In fact, somebody was running planeloads of illegal immigrants from Mexico and Central America into the heartland on a regular basis

• Somebody encouraged the BLM riots and paid bail for rioters who burned down urban small businesses (not mentioning any names but the initials of one of them were Kamala Harris)

• Somebody wanted to defund the police

• Somebody threw hundreds of people into the D.C. gulag for January 6 (but that’s another story for another day); in a country where murdering a police officer barely gets prison time, grandmothers who entered the Capitol through open doors got years in solitary

• Somebody let the crime rates soar

• Somebody did everything humanly possible to create runaway inflation

• Somebody didn’t care how much fentanyl got into the country

Had Biden just sat in a lawn chair in the Rose Garden, eating ice cream and doing nothing, we would have likely been better off. But while Biden stared off into space and dripped ice cream on his shirt, somebody was in the White House making decisions, signing executive orders, and shoveling money to Ukraine as fast as they could print the cash.

Did anyone benefit from this? One could argue Zelenskyy sure did. The Mexican and other Central American drug cartels—which for a while controlled a broad swath of territory around the Southern border both inside and outside the United States—sure benefited. Word was in the bad old days of Biden’s open border, the cartels made $1B a day, with their diversified income streams: human trafficking, coyotes, general corruption, and, of course, fentanyl. And China benefited as well with over 300 Americans a day dying from fentanyl overdoses which they sold to us (China is a very insidious enemy). It cost a lot of money to poison that many Americans and China had a system that not only made us pay for our own deaths but give China a profit to boot.

Or maybe it wasn’t a country that benefited but rather the World Economic Forum or some other nefarious organization?

The point is somebody benefited from keeping an old man with dementia propped up in the White House, and it was not the American people. In fact, Biden was a total refutation of democracy. (Think of how the Democrats like to opine about protecting democracy. In 2016, the Democrat National Convention booted Bernie who was leading in the primaries to favor Hillary who was “selected” for the nomination by party overlords. In 2020, Biden was running dead last in the primaries, until he was “selected” by James Clyburn to carry the Democrat party. And in 2024, Biden was given the boot in favor of Kamala. None of these people get elected in primaries, they’re “selected.” Some democracy. Russia does better than that!) Biden was a willing and docile puppet. He wasn’t even a Manchurian Candidate because that implies some degree of action—Joe was just a pitiful placeholder. He was a bit like a toddler, because somebody always had to watch out for him and he fell down a lot.

Was this a plot by enemies? And by which enemies?

Treason or Incompetence?

If Biden was not competent to stand trial according to Robert Hur, then he surely was not competent to run the nation. Leaving him in office was some sort of plot. He had all sorts of support in terms of getting stuff done, helping get him nicely dressed and in make-up for fleeting occasional public appearances; he had a medical team that kept him upright for meetings, and a shrewish wife who pushed him in front of the TV cameras when she had to. In functional families, when one spouse gets dementia, the other spouse protects that person. They don’t let them do things, especially not in public, that would have embarrassed them in their better days. Jill did the opposite. Anytime she could expose Joe’s frailty, weakness, or mental instability, she did so gleefully. She must really hate him.

Remember how at the debate, she praised him like he was six years old, clapping her hands and crowing that he “answered all of the questions!” Cringe.

But it’s only treason if keeping an incapacitated man in office gives aid and comfort to the enemy. What enemy? As long as our enemy has no contours, no face, no voice, and we don’t know who it is, then it can’t be treason.

Every action taken by the Biden administration hurt America. I cannot think of one thing that did not make us less fit economically, militarily, in terms of culture or education, in terms of safety, or in terms of infrastructure.

• Biden soaked us for billions to rebuild our infrastructure and built nothing

• He took billions to build car charging stations and built seven

• He took billions to repair the Key Bridge in Baltimore, and work did not even start till Trump got in office

• And Biden took billions more to bring high-speed internet to rural and under-served areas and did not connect even one single household. Not one

• The Afghanistan withdrawal ceded Bagram Air Force Base to China (look on a map—Biden gave it to the Taliban, but China is right there and will no doubt take it over)

Joe made a mess of our foreign policies, too: 11 United States embassies shut down (not our idea—theirs) during his term. This is an historical record. Six of those embassies were not closed peacefully but involved what is euphemistically termed a “personnel evacuation.” That means Americans were run out of town. In some cases, the Chinese occupied our buildings once we left. Great leadership. It hurts this country on the world stage.

So who benefits from a weakened United States? I would argue mostly China, but I’m not sure. And I’m not sure we can easily draw a legal line between the Biden regime and traitorous ties to China. That is not to say I don’t see any evidence. There are a few items to consider.

• Biden or whoever was playing the role of Biden knowingly let the Chinese spy balloons traverse America and only shot them down once they got all of the information they sought

• Biden let China buy up tons of American farmland and rural real estate near military bases

• Biden made sure to offshore as much manufacturing as he could and he made sure China made a lot of our pharmaceutical products

• Biden opened the Southern Border and handicapped our immigration services to allow China to pump this country full of fentanyl

• Kamala Harris picked Tim Walz as a running mate, a man with strong and strange ties to China, indicating the pro-China policies were ingrained in the Democrat machine

Was Biden installed into office by some shadowy cabal of people under the control of China? Or was he just an incompetent old man being commandeered by greedy wives and underlings, all wanting a payday? Was China just lurking in the background, paying avaricious and corrupt people to do their bidding for a few million here and a few million there?

Can we charge these people with treason? Did they know who they were working for? It’s all very murky, but it seems like Joe Biden’s presidency was treason. Maybe not textbook treason like in the Constitution, but Treason 2.0.