Bush-appointed judge slams GOP’s ‘spineless support’ of Trump

[Guno צְבִי]

Former federal judge Michael Luttig took to the pages of the New York Times Sunday to slam Republicans for their “spineless support” of former President Trump and to lament that the GOP have “convinced Mr. Trump of his political immortality.”

“The former president’s behavior may have invited charges, but the Republicans’ spineless support for the past two years convinced Mr. Trump of his political immortality, giving him the assurance that he could purloin some of the nation’s most sensitive national security secrets upon leaving the White House — and preposterously insist that they were his to do with as he wished — all without facing political consequences,” Luittig wrote in an op-ed.

Luttig, a former judge on the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and appointed by President George H. W. Bush, penned the op-ed titled “It’s Not Too Late for the Republican Party.” He argued that now was the party’s last chance to do away with Trump as the leader of the party.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poli...l?cvid=a6664a6add324f74ab40f8c139401697&ei=42

 

[Guno צְבִי]

“The stewards of the Republican Party have become so inured to their putative leader, they have managed to convince themselves that an indicted and perhaps even convicted Donald Trump is their party’s best hope for the future,” Luttig wrote.

“If the indictment of Mr. Trump on Espionage Act charges — not to mention his now almost certain indictment for conspiring to obstruct Congress from certifying Mr. Biden as the president on Jan. 6 — fails to shake the Republican Party from its moribund political senses, then it is beyond saving itself. Nor ought it be saved,” he wrote.

 

[BidenPresident]

“The stewards of the Republican Party have become so inured to their putative leader, they have managed to convince themselves that an indicted and perhaps even convicted Donald Trump is their party’s best hope for the future,” Luttig wrote.

“If the indictment of Mr. Trump on Espionage Act charges — not to mention his now almost certain indictment for conspiring to obstruct Congress from certifying Mr. Biden as the president on Jan. 6 — fails to shake the Republican Party from its moribund political senses, then it is beyond saving itself. Nor ought it be saved,” he wrote.

Good. The full editorial is here: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/25/opinion/trump-republican-party.html

 

[IBDaMann]

Former federal judge Michael Luttig took to the pages of the New York Times Sunday to slam Republicans for their “spineless support” of former President Trump and to lament that the GOP have “convinced Mr. Trump of his political immortality.”

guno, how many more "TDS on Display" threads are you going to make?

I don't think anyone needs to be convinced that there are TDS-ridden by the score.

 

[Tinkerpeach]

I wonder how much the NYT paid him

 

[Nordberg]

Can you imagine what kind of retribution Trump would take out of justice, the law, and Reds insufficiently Trumpy? He would Putinize the presidency.

 

[BidenPresident]

It’s Not Too Late for the Republican Party

When Republicans faced an 11th-hour reckoning with another of their presidents over far less serious offenses almost 50 years ago, the elder statesmen of the party marched into the Oval Office and told Richard Nixon the truth. He had lost his Republican support and he would be impeached if he did not resign. The beleaguered Nixon resigned the next day and left the White House the day following.

Such is what it means to put country over party. History tends to look favorably upon a party that writes its own history, as Winston Churchill might have said.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/25/opinion/trump-republican-party.html

 

[BidenPresident]

Can you imagine what kind of retribution Trump would take out of justice, the law, and Reds insufficiently Trumpy? He would Putinize the presidency.

We know now. Trump is a fascist.

 

[PoliTalker]

Hello guno,

“The stewards of the Republican Party have become so inured to their putative leader, they have managed to convince themselves that an indicted and perhaps even convicted Donald Trump is their party’s best hope for the future,” Luttig wrote.

“If the indictment of Mr. Trump on Espionage Act charges — not to mention his now almost certain indictment for conspiring to obstruct Congress from certifying Mr. Biden as the president on Jan. 6 — fails to shake the Republican Party from its moribund political senses, then it is beyond saving itself. Nor ought it be saved,” he wrote.

How dare he make so much sense. Republicans will have to call him names and completely reject anything he has to say.