It's not treason, but it's not defensible, either

One of the rules you should try to follow, if you talk or write about politics, is to apply the same basic standards and rules for longer than just whatever gets you through the current news cycle. That’s true of what you think is right and wrong and scandalous, and it’s doubly true of what’s legal and illegal. The rule of law exists so that we know what rules apply to our friends and political foes alike. When it comes to yesterday’s big bombshell story, too many Trump defenders are forgetting to apply that to the question of what’s right and wrong, and too many Trump critics are forgetting to apply it to the law by throwing around words like “treason.”

To recap, yesterday, Donald Trump, jr. released on Twitter an email chain leading up to his June 2016 meeting with a Russian lawyer connected to the Kremlin, apparently in the hopes of obtaining some dirt on Hillary Clinton. Specifically, British music publicist Rob Goldstone promised Don Jr. that he’d been told by a friend, Russian pop musician Emin Aglarov, that “the Crown prosecutor of Russia” (there is no such thing) could “provide the Trump campaign with some official documents and information that would incriminate Hillary and her dealings with Russia and would be very useful to your father” and that this was “very high level and sensitive information but is part of Russia and its government’s support for Mr. Trump.”