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Originally Posted by iron81
When I read the wiki on treason, almost all of the cases were either cooperating with states we were in armed conflict against or waging armed insurrection against the government. There were no cases where cooperating with states we dislike was deemed treason. It seems that cooperating with foreign powers to win an an election isn't illegal, maybe a campaign finance violation with the hacked emails and trolls constituting unreported in kind donations.
It would I think depend on whether the Russians trying to influence the election is deemed as a 'hostile act', which I believe it already has been.
Which makes sense, like if the Russians invaded the US and defeated the army, then installed their own man as President, anyone who assisted with that effort would rightly be called a traitor. The only difference here is that in this instance they didn't use an army, they used computers and potentially money. But the result is the same.