Treason/Patriotism

DECEIT. COLLUSION. BETRAYAL. CONSPRING WITH FOREIGN NATIONALS. ABUSE OF POWER.

Before President Trump's conspiracy with Ukraine for personal gain, there was Major-General Benedict Arnold's conspiracy with the British for money and position.

239-years before Donald Trump, Benedict Arnold, a Major-General in the Continental Army and commander of Fort West Point—the military stronghold of a burgeoning America—conspired with the British to surrender the fort for personal gain (money and position in the British army).

Today, in an ironic play of events, an American president, born on Arnold's day of death, faced impeachment and removal from office for obstruction of Congress and abuse of power—conspiring with a foreign nation (Ukraine) for personal gain (benefiting himself in the U.S. electoral process).