GOP Presidential Challenger Bill Weld Calls for Death Penalty for Trump ‘Treason’ Over Ukraine

Mod: While the Democrats dither endlessly over whether to impeach Trump or not, GOP Presidential candidate Bill Weld has taken the 'treason' issue to a whole new level.

GOP Challenger Bill Weld Calls for Death Penalty for Trump ‘Treason’ Over Ukraine (Daily Beastlink): Former Massachusetts Governor and Republican presidential challenger Bill Weld said Monday that President Donald Trump’s “acts of treason” in pressuring Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden deserved the death penalty.

“That is treason. It’s treason pure and simple, and the penalty for treason under the U.S. code is death,” Weld told MSNBC’s Morning Joe. “That’s the only penalty.”

Weld made the shocking statement in a joint appearance with fellow GOP presidential challengers Joe Walsh and Mark Sanford, who are protesting state Republican parties that have decided to cancel primaries to give the edge to the sitting president. “Obviously, canceling primaries undermines democratic institutions and democratic elections, but that’s far from the deepest dive crime that the president has committed here,” Weld said, referring to the growing calls for clarification about Trump’s actions toward Ukraine and the withholding of military funds in the weeks before a July 25 call in which he admitted to discussing an investigation of Hunter Biden.

Semi Crazy

Mod: We all love polls, and here comes one now. You hear some grumpy Trumpers complain that opposition to the Orange Madman is nothing but hate. Well, it appears that they now have a much bigger problem.

Hate for Trump sets new record of Americans who can’t stand a president (Raw Story link): A new poll shows a record number of Americans can’t stand the president of the United States. According to the most recent NBC News/Wall Street Journal public opinion poll, an astounding 69 percent of Americans don’t like Trump personally.

During the early 2000s, President George W. Bush enjoyed the benefit of Americans finding him likable and wanting to “have a beer” with the sober leader. That measure of “likability” has been a kind of inspiration for political leaders searching for voters based not on issues but on personality.

In past elections, favorability of a candidate or leader was key to reelection, but in 2020, that may not be an important factor.

Political analysts have warned that Trump will likely fight his lack of favorability not by being a nicer or better person, but by dragging everyone else down to his level. Washington Post analyst Aaron Blake explained in July that the Trump campaign knows how to do this because it has already mastered it.

“Given Trump’s long-standing unpopularity, a big question has always been whether he will be able to take the eventual Democratic nominee and drag them down to his level,” Blake wrote. “He showed he could do it in 2016 with Hillary Clinton, who ended the campaign as unpopular as Trump was, but it’s not clear whether he’ll be able to do it again.”

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