GEORGIA'S FORMER REPUBLICAN LT. GOVERNOR WANTS TRUMP DUMPED

Trump has the 'moral compass' of an 'ax murderer': Former Georgia GOP Lieutenant Governor tears into ex-president and begs Republicans NOT to choose him as the 2024 nominee

Geoff Duncan said there are 'lights and bells and whistles' warning Republicans not to nominate the ex-president in 2024  

 

By Nikki Schwab

 

Daily Mail

Aug 29, 2023

 

Former Georgia Republican Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan warned that if the GOP didn't divorce itself from Trump it could be game over. 

 

Georgia's former Republican Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan said Monday that former President Donald Trump has the 'moral compass' of an 'ax murderer.' 

Duncan, who left office in January, was on CNN to discuss the latest legal drama out of Georgia, with former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows trying to get his case moved to federal court. 

While on the air, Duncan begged members of his own party not to choose Trump as the party's nominee, claiming the ex-president had been on a 'two-plus year crime spree from coast to coast.' 

'As a Republican, the dashboard is going off with lights and bells and whistles telling us all the warning things we need to know,' Duncan said. 'Ninety-one indictments, fake Republican, $8 trillion worth of debt. 

'Everything we need to see to not choose him as our nominee, including the fact he's got the moral compass of more like an ax murderer than a president,' Duncan added. 

 

Georgia's former Republican Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan (middle left) said Monday night that Donald Trump has the 'moral compass' of an 'ax murderer,' during an appearance on CNN 

Former President Donald Trump is photographed at his Bedminster golf club earlier this month. He finds himself in more and more legal trouble that will interrupt his run for president 

 

CNN's Kaitlan Collins had pointed to a passage in Meadows' memoir in which the former top White House official said his job was telling 'the most powerful man in the world when you believed that he was wrong.' 

'But I mean, is it clear that Meadows didn't do that when it probably mattered the most here?' she asked Duncan. 

Meadows hadn't pumped the brakes when Trump started spouting the so-called 'big lie' - that he had won the election but was robbed a second term due to widespread election fraud. 

The former White House chief of staff and North Carolina congressman is trying to get his Georgia election interference case moved to federal court arguing he was performing the duties of a federal official.

Meadows, Trump and 17 others were charged with crimes related to an effort to overturn 2020 presidential election results in Georgia.

'Well, he must've whispered it in his ear and not said it out loud because I certainly have never seen examples of him standing up to Donald Trump or the ridiculous nature of where this is headed,' Duncan said of Meadows' claims of delivering tough talk to Trump. 

Duncan also said the election interference cases are playing out 'like some sort of Ponzi scheme of lies' and that the defendants' excuses are 'all technicalities.' 

'The reality is nobody is doubling down on the facts, right?' he added. 

Not only will the legal grounds be challenging, Duncan surmised, but it will meddle with Trump trying to run for president - as his court dates interrupt the flow of the primary and general election calendar.  

'When you have four trials to have to compete with on a calendar you're not going to be able to you know skip certain days because it's your birthday or skip certain days because you got a nail appointment, right?' Duncan said. 'You're gonna have to actually go face the music and that's really what's playing out here.' 

He warned that if the party didn't divorce itself from Trump it could be game over. 

'We need to do something right here right now. This is either our pivot point or our last gasp as Republicans,' Duncan said.