Donald Trump and the Russians - Denver Post echo opinion

U.S. Code 2381, “Whoever, owing allegiance to the United States, levies war against them or adheres to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort within the United States or elsewhere, is guilty of treason and shall suffer death, or shall be imprisoned not less than five years and fined under this title but not less than $10,000; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States.”

Suzanne Gagnon was not the only one calling Trump’s meeting with Putin treasonous.

This opinion was published after the horrible and failed "kow tow" press conference between the coward Donald Trump and Russian tyrannical leader Vladimir Putin, held on July 16, 2018, in Helsinki, Finland. Nevertheless, the theme in this letter has transcended the event.  In fact, the preponderance of evidence supports suspicion about treasonous behavior between the Trump 2016 illegal campaign and Russia.

The Denver Post published a letter to the editor suggesting Donald Trump should be suspected of treason for his campaign's illegal communications with the Russian government.

The letter criticized the president and Senator Cory Gardner (R., Colorado), following Trump's summit with Vladimir Putin in Helsinki on July 16, 2018, in Finland. 

In the letter, the author said the Soviet spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, who passed atomic bomb secrets to Moscow, were executed for "far less."

The letter was written by Suzanne Gagnon of Lakewood  Colorado.

Gagnon then compared Trump to the Rosenbergs, who were tried and put to death for espionage in 1953. 

She said there are "many more actions" that should be taken against Trump.

"If it walks like a traitor, and talks like a traitor, and acts like a traitor … it is a traitor," Gagnon said. "Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were executed on a basis of far less evidence than is had on Trump and many in his administration."

"Besides being in agreement with the actions recommended in the Denver Post editorial of July 19, I believe there are many more actions that can and should be taken against Trump to keep him from destroying the U.S.," she said. "If our leader doesn't support any swift, significant push back against Russian meddling, our votes aren't worth much."

Compass Colorado, a conservative nonprofit organization, said the editorial is in line with the "increasingly violent tone" of political rhetoric.

"The mere fact that the Denver Post would publish a letter to the editor with this type of  "treason" language speaks to the increasingly violent tone of Colorado politics" said Kelly Maher, executive director of Compass Colorado.

"This trend of violent language in Colorado is deeply concerning," she said. "Just a few months ago the Boulder Daily Camera published a letter to the editor asking if citizens have a moral responsibility to take arms against oil and gas well workers, and the liberal group ProgressNow Colorado tweeted out a picture of Senator Cory Gardner with blood on his hands after a shooting, and now this Denver Post letter."

"This violent and divisive rhetoric will do nothing to change hearts or minds, it's designed to entrench and inflame," Maher said.

The Denver Post pushed back on the idea that the editorial was extreme.

"She wrote to be critical of an editorial I wrote lauding Sen. Cory Gardner's efforts to impose sanctions on Russia and supportive of another editorial we had run that suggested actions Congress could take to respond to the Helsinki press conference," Schrader added.