Congressman Trey Gowdy - is felonious synonymous with treasonous?

"The three senior guys in the campaign thought it was a good idea to meet with a foreign government inside Trump Tower in the conference room on the 25th floor – with no lawyers," Bannon said. "They didn’t have any lawyers."

Maine Writer question to Congressman Trey Gowdy:

Congressman Trey Gowdy - Republican from South Carolina, was relentless in his obsessive interrogation of  Secretary Hillary Clinton, but he's strangely quiet about the behavior of the Donald Trump campaign's illegal meetings with Russian operatives

Question ~ "Is it 'felonious' for American political operatives to have met with Russians in Trump Tower, with the Donald Trump campaign leadership team, for the purpose of discussing how to obtain intelligence information to use against Hillary Clinton?" (It seemed to give Congressman Gowdy a sensory pleasure to use the word "felonious", when he relentlessly interviewed Secretary Hillary Clinton during bogus Benghazi interviews. But, in the situation where Americans were entertaining Russians for the purpose of undermining our nation's democracy, perhaps he could've learned to use a new word. I suggest he try out the word "treasonous".)

Steve Bannon: Trump Tower meeting with Russian lawyer was “treasonous” ~ by Charlie May in Salon.com**

Steve Bannon is quoted in "Fire and Furry" by Michael Wolff

Breitbart (aka "Barfcart"*) news chieftain reportedly said, “They’re going to crack Don Junior like an egg on national TV”

In the best selling book, "Fire and Fury", by Michael Wolff, a scathing report and inside look at Donald Trump's inner circle, the former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon had surprising words regarding the ongoing Russia investigation. 

He referred to the June 2016 meeting in Trump Tower, between top campaign officials -- including Donald Trump Jr. -- and alleged Russian agents, as "treasonous."

"They’re going to crack Don Junior like an egg on national TV," Bannon said in the book, according to the Guardian. 

In his book, "Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House," author, Michael Wolff conducted more than 200 interviews "with the president, his inner circle and players in and around the administration."

Bannon also reportedly said he believed special counsel Robert Mueller's path to Trump goes straight through the president's closest confidants. These remarks stand in stark contrast to more than a year of blatant denials from anyone involved in the Trump campaign or his eventual administration, as well as Breitbart (aka "Barfcart") News' concerted attempts to undermining Mueller's investigation and the entire Russia scandal.

Bannon blasted the way Trump campaign officials had orchestrated the now-infamous Trump Tower meeting with visiting Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya. It was attended by Trump's former campaign chair Paul Manafort, Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner and Donald Trump Jr.

"The three senior guys in the campaign thought it was a good idea to meet with a foreign government inside Trump Tower in the conference room on the 25th floor – with no lawyers," Bannon said. "They didn’t have any lawyers."
He added, "Even if you thought that this was not treasonous, or unpatriotic, or bad shit, and I happen to think it’s all of that, you should have called the FBI immediately."

Bannon, alongside the "alt-right" and most of mainstream conservative punditry, has sought to undermine Mueller's investigation at all costs, writing off the idea of collusion as a witch hunt by Democrats and the political "establishment." But it's not the first time Bannon has pivoted in the opposite direction. After disgraced Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore, suffered an unexpected defeat in the December special election, Bannon — who had backed Moore strongly and convinced Trump to support him — abandoned him immediately and sought to blame the loss on others.

But even though Bannon deemed the meeting to be potentially nefarious, he suggested other ways it could have occurred more quietly. He said that it could have taken place "in a Holiday Inn in Manchester, New Hampshire, with your lawyers who meet with these people."

From there, he continued, information could be "dump[ed] … down to Breitbart or something like that, or maybe some other more legitimate publication," the Guardian reported.

As a professed nationalist, are Bannon's intentions simply driven by patriotism, possibly pure, or is he just critical of the brazen and thoughtless way in which the meeting took place? 

As ever, it's difficult to divine the motives of this "self-appointed political genius".  (Maine Writer...??? This is certainly not my opinion of Bannon. He's proven to be a failed political operative, but he gets a broken clock award for his "treasonous" quote in the Wolff book.)

Bannon's words may shine a light on his reported struggle to advance Trump's so-called America First agenda inside the White House, specifically his conflict with Kushner. 

The battle for influence inside the White House between Bannon and Kushner, along with the latter's wife, Ivanka Trump, proves to be a recurring theme in Wolff's book.

"You realize where this is going," Bannon said. "This is all about money laundering. Mueller chose [senior prosecutor Andrew] Weissmann first and he is a money-laundering guy. Their path to fucking Trump goes right through Paul Manafort, Don Jr. and Jared Kushner ... It’s as plain as a hair on your face."

Perhaps Bannon is just doing what he always does, trying to sow chaos and hatch Machiavellian plots. His personal loyalty to the president only goes so far. His true allegiance is to himself — and more importantly — his far-right nationalist worldview.

Maine Writer~ Steve Bannon and Congressman Trey Gowdy are cut from the same abrasive right wing cloth.  They should be able to agree on the definition of the word "treasonous", and that is certainly a synonymous word with "felonious".  The meeting with the Trump campaign operatives and those who attended it in Trump Towers was a felonious and treasonous collusion with the Russian government to subvert the US 2016 presidential campaign.

*Barfcart ~ Maine Writer label for the "throw up", intestinal gunk  reported in the right wing news.

**Charlie May is a news writer at Salon.