treason and who can be charged
In December 2016, a series of exaggerated reports that Democrats had filed treason charges against Donald Trump, Rudy Giuliani, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation appeared and were subsequently circulated on social media:
In law, treason is the crime that covers some of the more extreme acts against one's nation or sovereign. Historically, treason also covered the murder of specific social superiors, such as the murder of a husband by his wife or that of a master by his servant.