AP FACT CHECK: Trump cries `treason` over campaign scrutiny
(World News USA)

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump is using `treason` rather lightly as he assails unidentified U.S. officials for investigating operatives of his campaign in 2016. There`s no allegation or even suggestion that they committed this punishable-by-death crime, if any crime at all. Trump`s hyperbolic characterization echoed at the end of a week of unsupported assertions by the president on trade, the economy, drug prices and more. Meantime, Russian President Vladimir Putin declared inaccurately that no traces of collusion between his country and Trump`s 2016 campaign were found in the `exotic` special counsel investigation by Robert Mueller. A recap: RUSSIA INVESTIGATION TRUMP: `My...