Rival Republican Bill Weld accuses Trump of ‘treason — pure and simple’

Former Massachusetts Gov. Bill Weld, one of the three Republicans who is challenging President Donald Trump via a 2020 GOP presidential primary, has been vehemently critical of Trump on foreign policy. And Weld is now accusing Trump of “treason” in response to reports that he urged Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden.

Appearing on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” on Monday morning, Weld told hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski, “Talk about pressuring a foreign country to interfere with and control a U.S. election. It couldn’t be clearer, and that’s not just undermining democratic institutions — that is treason. It’s treason, pure and simple, and the penalty for treason under the U.S. code is death. That’s the only penalty.”