No one outside the White House or the Ukrainian government knows what was said in July in a private phone call between President Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. No one knows whether it is true that Trump pressed Zelensky to investigate Democratic front-runner Joe Biden and his son, Hunter, with the explicit intention of interfering in the 2020 U.S. presidential election.
But a lack of details has not stopped 2020 GOP primary candidate Bill Weld from accusing Trump of committing treason “pure and simple.” And that is not all Weld has said. The former Massachusetts governor has gone so far as to suggest also that Trump would be lucky to avoid the hangman’s noose. This is not a metaphor. Weld actually suggested Monday that what Trump is alleged to have done in his phone call with Zelensky amounts to a treasonous offense punishable by death.
