DEFENDANT DON WHINES AFTER COURT
Ex-GOP Official Torches 'Criminal Defendant' Trump, Endorses Joe Biden Instead
Former Georgia Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan, a Republican, is bucking his party and endorsing President Joe Biden over Donald Trump in this year’s election.
“This November, I am voting for a decent person I disagree with on policy over a criminal defendant without a moral compass,” he wrote in an opinion piece in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Duncan wrote that the GOP can’t rebuild until it rebukes Trump, who he said “has disqualified himself through his conduct and his character.” He pointed out that the former president is currently on trial over a scheme involving hush money payments to porn star Stormy Daniels.
“Most important, Trump fanned the flames of unfounded conspiracy theories that led to the horrific events of Jan. 6, 2021,” Duncan wrote. “He refuses to admit he lost the last election and has hinted he might do so again after the next one.”
"Well, enough's enough," said Duncan. "Donald Trump is not our future, he's not our present, and now looking back, he certainly wasn't our past. Donald Trump's a fake Republican. He's proven that over and over and over again. He simply wants the position of president to be powerful, and he's willing to lie, cheat, and steal for it. And if we're going to fix this party and go forward, the party that is conservative but not crazy and angry, we've got to do it without Donald Trump."
He also had a reminder for voters concerned about issues such as higher taxes and campus unrest over Gaza.
“I get it. No one likes paying higher taxes, and these protests are unsettling,” he wrote. “But the last year of the Trump presidency was hardly a time of tranquillity.”
He blasted Trump’s “erratic” handling of the COVID-19 pandemic and said the then-president “fueled racial unrest” with his approach to the Black Lives Matter protests of 2020.
“Trump has shown us who he is,” Duncan wrote. “We should believe him. To think he is going to change at the age of 77 is beyond improbable.”
Duncan added that he understands the drive of his fellow Republicans to want one of their own back in the White House — but this isn't the way to do it.
"If we can get past Donald Trump, have a Republican-controlled Congress, we can have a firewall in place, and then we can take the next four years to fix our party and get a legitimate candidate forward that can lead us in the right direction," he added.
“I think Republicans, like many other people in Donald Trump’s past, are going to regret ever being associated with him,” Duncan said on CNN last summer.
The confused mental patient came up with a new complaint Monday about his Manhattan criminal hush money trial: it's taking too long.
