CNN contributor: Trump committed treason in spirit

President Trump’s savvier critics know they can’t accuse him of a genuine act of treason in Helsinki, so some are looking for ways to say as much without actually saying it.

Presidential historian and CNN contributor Douglas Brinkley, for example, argued this week that Trump did not technically commit treason by deferring repeatedly to Russian President Vladimir Putin during a joint press conference overseas, but that the spirit of what the president did was “clearly treasonous.”