Conservative Legal Icon Nails Donald Trump With Dark Distinction

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Source: Huff Post

Oct 30, 2024, 04:28 AM EDT


Conservative former federal Judge J. Michael Luttig warned in a new essay for The New York Times that the “choice for America next Tuesday could not be clearer.”

“He betrayed us,” Luttig said of former president and current GOP nominee Donald Trump, later adding: “In the almost 250 years since the founding of the nation, no president before Donald Trump has ever so betrayed America.”

“Republicans and conservatives have always proudly claimed they would be the first to put the country above all else when the time came. That time has come,” wrote Luttig, who endorsed Democratic candidate Kamala Harris in August.

“If Republicans are unwilling to put America before their party now, they will never do so. They must be honest with themselves,” he added.

Read more: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/j-michael-luttig-donald-trump-honor_n_6721d8f2e4b047f75f6afa47

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I am pleased to share this essay that appears this morning in The New York Times.

https://nytimes.com/2024/10/29/opinion/donald-trump-oath.html?unlocked_article_code=1.V04.EgFx.kfCUHcF1mpPD&smid=url-share


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Opinion | Trump Betrayed America.Republicans Must Put Country Above Party. (Gift Article)
The time has come for my fellow Republicans to put country above party.
5:47 AM · Oct 29, 2024

Link to NYT Opinion ESSAY (no paywall (gift)) - My Fellow Republicans, It’s Time to Say Enough With Trump

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1. Judge Luttig is another Republican who supports Harris. His essay is eloquent.

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2. "If Republicans are unwilling to put America before their party now, they will never do so."

This was obvious after the Senate didn't convict him after impeachment. Thanks for nothing Mitch McConnell you F'ing good for nothing P.O.S.

[Bayard]

3. Thank you, Judge Luttig

I have the highest respect for him.

The problem is there is not a republican party anymore. It is the cult of trump.

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4. if william f buckley was still alive, i bet even he would hold his nose + vote harris.

joeseph mccarthy would cause the putin shit.
ixon- WTF.

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5. Thank you Judge Luttig!

Any American who votes conservative has no reason to vote for Chump.

"There could be no higher duty of American citizenship than to decisively repudiate a man who betrayed the nation when he was previously entrusted with the highest office in the land and now threatens the persecution of American citizens who have crossed him. In the almost 250 years since the founding of the nation, no president before Donald Trump has ever so betrayed America.

This is not a difficult decision for voters, though my fellow Republicans and conservatives will finally have to decide what they have long hoped they would never have to decide — whether to put their country above their party. Republicans and conservatives have always proudly claimed they would be the first to put the country above all else when the time came. That time has come. If Republicans are unwilling to put America before their party now, they will never do so. They must be honest with themselves."