Trump suggests Schiff treasonous

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is leaning into his threats as impeachment pressure mounts.

On Monday, he suggested Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff was guilty of treason. But the Constitution is clear that treason is not the same as disloyalty. And an agitated Trump was very publicly blurring the two as he tweeted against his critics and the House impeachment push.

Trump also suggested that any effort to oust him could lead to civil war, part of a weekend barrage of tweets that offered a window into his raw emotions.

Trump was anything but subtle in taking on Schiff, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee.

“Arrest for Treason?” Trump tweeted of the California Democrat. It was Trump’s latest objection to Schiff ’s summation of a rough transcript in which the president on July 25 pressured Ukraine’s leader to investigate Joe Biden’s son.