treason only applies to enemies who we are actually at war with. what the framers were concerned about was a foreign power essentially purchasing the president. so relying on treason doesn't cover all of that. what they were talking about their tend to fill that gap is bribery, and the idea of very specifically that they were talking about or worrying about was the possibility that a foreign power would essentially by the president so the president of the united states pursued the foreign powers interests rather than the american people's interest. the bribery statute, on the other hand, enacted in 1962, talks about a lot of lesser crimes than that. for example, the thing the democrats are honing in on here which is that you don't even have to have a completed bride. you make what they characterize as a corrupt demand, that is enough for liability under the