A conservative judge convinced Mike Pence that he could not overturn the 2020 election prediction “The beginning of the end of Donald Trump” – the former president who instigated the January 6 uprising but is now trying to return to the White House.
speaking For the Washington PostJ. Michael Luttig also made common comparisons to another infamous former president, Richard Nixon, who resigned in 1974 amid the Watergate scandal.
“What Nixon did was a simple crime,” Luttig said, referring to the cover-up of the break-in at Democratic headquarters. “What Trump has done is the worst crime against the United States that a president can commit.”
Luttig was a staffer for Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan and George HW Bush, who appointed him to the federal bench in 1991. Now 68, he is a retired conservative jurist widely considered unlucky not to have made it to the Supreme Court. He came to national attention last June, when he appeared before a committee of parliament on January 6.
In a televised hearing, using precise and powerful words, Luttig also argued why on January 4, 2021, Pence could not do as Trump wanted and stop the certification of Joe Biden’s election victory. Published on Twitter.
Luttig went on to paint a stark picture of America “at war against itself” and warned that a year and a half after the deadly Capitol riots, Trump and his supporters still pose a “clear and present threat to American democracy.”
Another six months later, Trump is in legal jeopardy amid investigations into his campaign sabotage, his financial and campaign finance affairs and his retention of secret records, and a lawsuit brought by a writer alleging he raped her, allegations Trump denies.
But Trump is still the only declared major candidate for the Republican presidential nomination in 2024, dominating polls in the fantasy field.
in Long profile Published by the Post on Tuesday, Luttig said he had seen “substantial evidence” of criminal activity and believed Trump would be indicted. He also warned that any decision on whether to indict the former president should consider how the inevitable “spectacle” of Trump’s fight to defeat any charges could “divide the nation.”
But the Post said Luttig has dealt “three blows” to Trump’s political future … his recent statement that parts of the Constitution must be ‘repealed’ to get him back in office, the criminal referrals by the Jan. 6 committee and his failure to consider the 2022 midterm election favorite. .”
Trump made his comments about the Constitution in a social media post in December. The Biden White House reprimanded him for comments that were “inimical to the soul of our nation.”
January 6 The committee made four criminal referrals to the Justice Department. The Justice Department’s investigation into Trump’s election coup and incitement to the Capitol attack continues.
High-profile Trump candidates were defeated in November’s election, leaving Republicans in control of the Senate and a healthy House majority.
Luttig, the Post said, saw “the beginning of the end of Donald Trump” in the cumulative effect of such factors. But he added that Trump has not yet been stopped, and it may be down to the courts to do so.
“Donald Trump has proven that the only thing that can stop him is the law,” Luttig warned.
