The Logan Act was passed in 1799. A grand total of two people were charged with violating it, and none were convicted.

Those fun facts are never going to change. Find something else to charge Trump with, it shouldn’t be hard.

The trouble with prosecuting Trump under the Logan Act is that, technically, the ceasefire would not be an agreement between the US and a foreign government. It would be an agreement between Israel and Hamas. Here’s the text of the act:

Any citizen of the United States, wherever he may be, who, without authority of the United States, directly or indirectly commences or carries on any correspondence or intercourse with any foreign government or any officer or agent thereof, with intent to influence the measures or conduct of any foreign government or of any officer or agent thereof, in relation to any disputes or controversies with the United States, or to defeat the measures of the United States, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both.

Now, I would argue that brokering a ceasefire counts as “measures of the United States,” but it’s not a slam dunk legal argument. Trump put a fuckton of sympathetic activist judges on the bench, including three Supreme Court Justices, so I don’t have any faith that he will be held accountable.

or to defeat the measures of the United States

My first thought is that the US is trying to broker a cease fire, so that should definitely count as a measure.

The founding fathers weren’t ignorant of international affairs and that countries do things that are not in relation to their own country. So that last clause seems to specifically address those other things not directly to do with the US.