Obama’s “No Treason” Defense: What If He Was Never a Citizen to Begin With? By Chris Knight (Florida)
It started as satire, a tongue-in-cheek piece from The Babylon Bee, but what if it wasn't? What if Barack Obama, cornered by allegations of electoral interference, mass surveillance of political opponents, and conspiracy to undermine a sitting president, actually took the nuclear legal route and said:
"I can't commit treason… because I was never a U.S. citizen in the first place."
Ridiculous? Maybe. But play it out. Because this absurdity reveals the deep rot in how America handles elite wrongdoing. And it may just show why treason, while morally fitting, may never stick, even if it should.
For years, the media mocked the so-called birther conspiracy, which questioned whether Obama was truly a "natural born citizen" as required by the Constitution to hold the presidency. The Left said it was racist paranoia. The Right couldn't get the courts to touch it. Then Obama released a questionable long-form birth certificate, and the issue was swept under the rug.
But let's say — hypothetically — that Obama now tried to weaponise that very theory in reverse: using it not as a disqualifier from power, but as a shield from prosecution.
That's the joke in The Babylon Bee, yes. But if this defence were ever actually floated in court, it would amount to one of the most grotesque perversions of constitutional logic in American history:
"I couldn't have committed treason — I was never even eligible to be President."
In other words: "I know I wasn't legally president, therefore I can't be held responsible for anything I did as president." Let that sink in.
If Obama were not a natural-born citizen, the implications are staggering:
Every action he took as president would be null and void.
Every law he signed, appointment he made, and executive order he issued would be legally invalid.
Most chilling of all: He may not be prosecutable as president, because he wasn't legally president.
In effect, he'd be a foreign national who unlawfully seized the White House through forged documents and a decades-long con. That wouldn't be just treason, it would be espionage, subversion, and possibly a hostile foreign takeover of the U.S. executive branch.
But paradoxically, that could make prosecution harder, not easier. Because under U.S. law, treason requires allegiance to the United States. No allegiance = no treason. That's the dark comedy at the heart of this scenario: a man who may have illegally risen to power could use the illegality of that rise as a shield against accountability!
If treason is off the table due to technicalities, does Obama walk?
Not so fast. There's a long list of possible charges that don't require U.S. citizenship:
Conspiracy against the United States (18 U.S. Code § 371)
Election interference and abuse of executive authority
Illegal surveillance under colour of law
Falsifying federal documents
Seditious conspiracy (18 U.S. Code § 2384)
In fact, if he was a foreign national, that opens the door to charges of espionage, infiltration, and acting as an unregistered foreign agent, crimes that carry stiff penalties, including life imprisonment. So even if the treason charge technically fails, the legal noose tightens through other channels.
Let's drop the legal gymnastics for a moment and focus on the ethical truth: Barack Obama oversaw a government that spied on its political opponents, fanned disinformation, and tried to destroy Trump before he was ever sworn in. The so-called "Russia collusion" narrative, ordered, shaped, and launched under Obama's watch, turned out to be a hoax. And it wasn't just about politics. It was an attempt to control the fate of a nation through lies.
Treason? Maybe not by the book. But by any honest moral standard? Absolutely!
Whether Obama was born in Kenya or Kansas, whether he used forged documents or not, one thing is clear: the system is rigged to protect the powerful. And when someone this high up says, even jokingly, "You can't charge me — I was never even American," it's a reminder that something is broken.
If the law can't hold him accountable, the people must. 2026 mid-terms arecoming. And justice may yet find another way.
"In a blow to hopes from conservatives that the former president would face severe consequences for allegedly overseeing an attempt to delegitimize the Trump presidency, Barack Obama argued that he can't be charged with treason since he wasn't born in America and isn't a legitimate American citizen.
Republicans acknowledged that they could be left without any legal recourse after President Obama absolved himself of any potential treason charge by reminding everyone that he couldn't face any consequences since he was never a citizen to begin with.
"I can't commit treason against America if I was never an American," Obama said confidently in a brief statement to reporters. "The Republicans have been cooking up wild schemes for years to try to hold me accountable for crimes against the United States. Unfortunately, as someone who was not born in America, I cannot be held to that standard. Nice try, but it won't work. Back to the drawing board."
Constitutional scholars agreed that Obama's defense was airtight. "It's an open and shut case," one expert said. "You can't hold someone accountable for betraying their allegiance to a country if they never had any allegiance to that country in the first place. It's a pretty genius move by President Obama here. Almost as genius as falsifying his birth certificate to get illegitimately elected president."
At publishing time, Obama and his legal counsel clarified that any and all illegal activity and wrongdoing committed during his presidency was exempt from legal penalty due to the fact that he was never legally president.
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