The former Massachusetts governor took aim at the U.S. president during a Republican primary debate.
that Trump was guilty of"treason, pure and simple. And the penalty for treason, under the U.S. Code, is death"., Weld went head-to-head with Congressman Joe Walsh, taking the president to task over his attacks on the media.
"It just sent a chill down my spine," he said, adding that he believes Trump has given indications that"he wants to dismantle our democratic institutions including free and fair elections, one by one, and knock down all those trees until there is nothing resisting him.which according to the testimony of his first divorce trial, is one of his favorite books.
On a visit to London in June 2018, before the report came out by former special counsel Robert Mueller into claims of Russian interference in the 2016 election, Weld said that the case to impeach Trump was stronger than Nixon's.
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