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It’ll be ~5 years before all appeals are exhausted. I’d be shocked to see that he ever eats a final conviction, and any Republican president will pardon him, living or dead.
And, even if he is convicted and not pardoned, the functional challenges of managing Secret Service protection in a white-collar prison would be daunting, not to mention that his SS detail seems to have been easily corrupted to lie for him. The SS leadership, a locus of supreme bootlickers, would likely tell an inquiring judge that it’s too difficult to protect him in any penal institution for white-collar criminals, which will force the court to choose house arrest at most.
So, it’s probable that he’ll never serve a day in jail or prison.
What's the penalty for treason?
We’re not in a declared war.
No, maybe not a US declared war. That being said, North Korea seems pretty happy to shout death threats at you guys.
If I was living in the US, I don't think that I would want those guys to have any top-secret information that could effect the country I lived in.
One could definitely argue that exposing certain types information could be considered an attack on the US, because it's not like bad actors would follow the US constitution to the letter. I'm going to go out on a limb, and say that anyone who buys that type of secretive information probably isn't very US-friendly.
Spreading certain types of information could also cause massive security breaches. Anyone who is a protected witness would be at a massive risk. Who's to say that a bad actor wouldn't try to mess with your currency sytem, or expose a secret military location? People generally don't like that stuff happening either, and for good reason imo.
To clarify: treason requires a declared war against an external entity. Sedition is what Trump did.
We were on Jan 6th.