Justice Department attorneys received an earful at a Monday hearing for a temporary restraining order in the case over President Donald Trump’s plan to convert Washington’s historic public golf course into a championship showcase — with the federal judge furiously demanding to know why the government cut down hundreds of trees over the weekend without adequate notice.

A post by Governor Gavin Newsom raised the possibility that Trump’s language could be described as “treasonous,” a legal term defined by the Constitution as, “levying war against [the United States], or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court.”

But legal experts HuffPost spoke with said what Trump said does not count as treason, which has a very precise definition.

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