You can't call Trump a Traitor - but you can call him a Quisling

​​I’m reminded when watching the excellent Okupert  - you can’t call Trump a traitor - but you can call him a Quisling.

Trump loves some old timely references doesn't he?

Rod Rosenstein,  the United States Deputy Attorney General has been referred to as 'Peepers'
and
Jeff Sessions the, United States Attorney General, has been called Mr Magoo

Here’s an old word Trump might be aware of - Quisling
Quisling was the name of an infamous collaborator with the Nazis who helped undermine Norwegian Democracy in the run up to the Nazi takeover of the country in World War II.

Though you'd be a fool not to see Trump's outright treacherous behavior on behalf of Vladimir Putin, by the American definition of traitor you apparently you have to be at war, so in a strict legal sense 'Traitor' does not apply to Trump.. so 'Quisling' is more apt. (Though perhaps a future redefinition of war to include Active Measures might change this).

I guess we could add the US Republican party as a whole to that as well. If we consider the other party, which has won the popular vote in five of the last six US Presidential elections and is now completely powerless to stop the Supreme Court, Congress and Senate from being further rigged and gerrymandered against it, we can definitely conclude the Republican effort to undermine US democracy, with active help from a hostile foreign power, has been hugely successful example of collaboration.

Congressional Republicans' trip to Russia was a shameful fool's errand

Trump is lucky he’s a US citizen, because the UK definition of treason is different.  Based on our thousand year old 'constitution', which history teachers previous to 2016 argued a problematic series of bodges compared to the US version, if Trump was looking at these accusations of treason in a British court, up until 1998 at least, he'd facing the end of a rope.

The penalty for treason was changed from death to a maximum of imprisonment for life in 1998 under the Crime And Disorder Act. Before 1998, the death penalty was mandatory..

UKIP backer Aaron Banks, who 'met Russian ambassador 11 times' before EU vote perhaps also should be aware of this.

Interestingly Trump's actions perhaps relate more easily to Sedition. Perhaps the Mueller investigation will charge him with that, assuming there is anything left of the US Justice system when that finally happens.