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Conservative Legal Icon Predicts Just How Bad A Trump Win Would Be For America
Conservative Legal Icon Predicts Just How Bad A Trump Win Would Be For AmericaRetired U.S. Judge J. Michael Luttig warned of "catastrophic" consequences.
A conservative former federal judge said he is “more worried for America today” than he was on Jan. 6, 2021, when Donald Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol in a bid to overturn the former president’s 2020 election defeat by President Joe Biden.
In an interview with the Guardian published on Monday, J. Michael Luttig predicted a victory for Republican front-runner Trump in the 2024 election “would be catastrophic for America’s democracy.”
Trump has “continued to maintain for three years that the election was stolen from him” with the “complete and total support of the Republican party,” lamented Luttig.
The former president has “corrupted American democracy and corrupted American elections and laid waste to Americans’ faith and confidence in their democracy to the extent that today millions and millions and millions of Americans no longer have faith and confidence in their elections,” he added.