Last Tuesday, President Trump denounced the New York Times in a Truth Social post as a “serious threat to the National Security of our Nation” and a “TRUE ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE” for publishing an article detailing Trump’s close personal relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. “Chasing women was a game of ego and dominance. Female bodies were currency,” the Times reported.

That was the Times’s second recent treasonous offense. After the Times published a story on how 79-year-old Trump was “slowing down physically” and “showing signs of fatigue” in his second term, Trump declared on Truth Social on December 9: “There has never been a President that has worked as hard as me!” Trump proclaimed that “it’s seditious, perhaps even treasonous, for The New York Times, and others, to consistently do FAKE reports in order to libel and demean ‘THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.’”

The following week, Trump raised eyebrows by repeatedly falling asleep during a televised cabinet meeting. The Justice Department has not filed treason charges against websites that reposted videos of Trump fading off.

Trump is using practically a mirror image of treason compared to the standard the Founding Fathers canonized. Because America’s founders had seen horrific political abuses in England in prior times, the Constitution specifically and narrowly defined treason: “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.”

President Trump is instead using a Lese Majeste standard of treason, presuming that anything that........

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