WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on President Donald Trump and special counsel Robert Mueller (all times local): 9:10 a.m. Attorney General William Barr is declining to agree with President Donald Trump’s assertion that senior FBI officials were engaged in treason when they investigated whether Trump’s campaign was coordinating with Russia. In an interview broadcast Friday […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on President Donald Trump and special counsel Robert Mueller (all times local):
9:10 a.m.
Attorney General William Barr is declining to agree with President Donald Trump’s assertion that senior FBI officials were engaged in treason when they investigated whether Trump’s campaign was coordinating with Russia.
In an interview broadcast Friday on “CBS This Morning,” Barr said there is a “very specific criteria” to satisfy the legal definition of treason and those conditions were not met.
Last week, Trump tweeted that the investigation into his campaign amounted to treason.
Treason only occurs when a U. S. citizen, or a non-citizen on U. S. territory, wages war against the country or provides material support to a declared enemy of the United States.
