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No; treason - as narrowly defined in the US - requires work with/for external enemies. Attacking Congress in hopes of installing King Charles would be treasonous; doing it to install Trump is not.

Insurrection and seditious conspiracy remain somewhat different than boring old disorderly conduct and assault charges.



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No, many people were charged with treason during the civil war, which was definitely not external forces.

The Confederacy, post succession, was very much an external force "levying war against the United States". Trump's insurrectionists, whatever you think of them, weren't.

American jurisprudence has also come a ways since the 1860s.


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