Trump's Actions Were 'Treason Squared,' Kirschner Says

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Former federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner alleged Friday that former President Donald Trump's actions on January 6, 2021, appeared to amount to "treason squared" after the first public hearing of the House select committee investigating the U.S. Capitol riot was broadcast on primetime television. Hundreds of Trump's supporters attacked the Capitol last year in an effort to disrupt the formal certification of President Joe Biden's Electoral College victory. That attack came after Trump urged his followers at a nearby rally to walk to the federal legislative building and "fight like hell" to save their country. "What we now know is that Donald Trump not only set the date for the Capitol attack, as we've just discussed, but he also refused to call off his angry mob once he deployed them for more than three hours," Kirschner explained. The lawyer went on to say that Trump also "refused the deployment of any forces to go to the Capitol to fend off the attack, to protect the people in the U.S. Capitol that he set his angry mob on." Penalty for treason: Under U.S. Code Title 18, the penalty is death, or not less than five years' imprisonment (with a minimum fine of $10,000, if not sentenced to death). Any person convicted of treason against the United States also forfeits the right to hold public office in the United States.