Donald Trump has “the moral compass of an axe murderer”, a Republican opponent in Georgia said, discussing the former president’s legal predicament in the southern US state and elsewhere but also his continuing dominance of the presidential primary.
“As Republicans, that dashboard is going off with lights and bells and whistles, telling us all the warning things we need to know,” Geoff Duncan told CNN on Monday.
“Ninety-one indictments,” Duncan said. “Fake Republican, a trillion dollars’ worth of debt [from his time in the White House], everything we need to see to not choose him as our nominee, including the fact that he’s got the moral compass of a … more like an axe murderer than a president.
“We need to do something right here, right now. This is either our pivot point or our last gasp as Republicans.”
Duncan was the lieutenant governor of Georgia when Trump tried to overturn his defeat there by Joe Biden in 2020, an effort now the subject of 13 racketeering and conspiracy charges.
Trump also faces charges for – and denies wrongdoing over – election subversion at the federal level (four counts), retention of classified information (40) and hush-money payments to a porn star (34).
Many observers suggest the Republican party will be on a path to destruction if it picks Trump to face Biden again next year.
Trump dominates national and key-state polling, apparently suffering only minor damage after skipping the first debate – in Wisconsin last week – and indicating that he will skip all subsequent contests.
Most observers expect Trump to lose a presidential election to Biden. But polling returns close contests and also shows most Americans think Biden is too old, at 80, to serve a second term.
Trump is 77 but fewer respondents think he is too old. Many more, however, think he is corrupt.
Describing “a two-plus-year crime spree from coast to coast”, Duncan said Trump’s roster of wrongdoing was “like some sort of Ponzi scheme of lies”.
Trump is due to face a procession of trials in the election year, including in a civil defamation case in which the former president has been adjudicated a rapist.
Duncan told CNN: “When you have four trials to have to compete with on a calendar, you’re not gonna be able to, you know, skip certain days because it’s your birthday, or skip certain days because you’ve got a nail appointment, right?
“You’re gonna have to actually go face the music.”
Calling Trump a “Fake Republican” got a chuckle out of me.
No, he is the personification of the party without a filter.
Yet they continue to line up behind him and defend him! He really is just a mob boss and the Republicans his goons. They’re all content to talk behind his back while remaining deathly afraid of him.
They’re all about pooping on Trump when they are trying to get the nomination, but if Trump gets nominated, they’ll get right back in line.
Too little, too late.
The analogy I like is that Trump is the football coach who gave the team steroids and meth. The college leaders were fine when the team started winning games, and are now concerned because the team is burning the school down.
Did you vote for him anyway?
Congrats, so do you.
I don’t feel like we’re being fair to axe murderers, here.
This is definitely false.
Trump couldn’t swing an axe if he tried.
His hands wouldn’t go all the way around the handle
Lmao, thank you for the laugh.
Relatedly, Amanda Plummer would be an amazing casting choice for a Trump biopic
This might be my favourite fediverse comment so far.
My first choice would have been Gilbert Gottfried, but he died last year. Done in the style of The Producers, of course.
He died?? I either forgot or missed it entirely!
Yeah, there was a whole Producers Curse thing going for a little bit between him and Bob Saget
“So I Elected An Axe Murderer” has potential.
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Cmon man. An Axe Murderer at least has the balls to do his own dirty work with a smile and at least have some level of honesty about their intentions.
Just saying. I don’t think Jason Vorhees has ever lied to me.
I don’t think Jason Vorhees has ever lied to me.
But did he ever make a perfect phone call?
At least axe murderers, when caught, will generally acknowledge that some of their actions weren’t strictly legal.
His moral compass points due $.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Donald Trump has “the moral compass of an axe murderer”, a Republican opponent in Georgia said, discussing the former president’s legal predicament in the southern US state and elsewhere but also his continuing dominance of the presidential primary.
“As Republicans, that dashboard is going off with lights and bells and whistles, telling us all the warning things we need to know,” Geoff Duncan told CNN on Monday.
“Fake Republican, a trillion dollars’ worth of debt [from his time in the White House], everything we need to see to not choose him as our nominee, including the fact that he’s got the moral compass of a … more like an axe murderer than a president.
Duncan was the lieutenant governor of Georgia when Trump tried to overturn his defeat there by Joe Biden in 2020, an effort now the subject of 13 racketeering and conspiracy charges.
Trump also faces charges for – and denies wrongdoing over – election subversion at the federal level (four counts), retention of classified information (40) and hush-money payments to a porn star (34).
Trump is due to face a procession of trials in the election year, including in a civil defamation case in which the former president has been adjudicated a rapist.
The original article contains 411 words, the summary contains 206 words. Saved 50%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!
Well, I guess that’s one way to get fifteen minutes of fame.
