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Former U.S. President Donald Trump sits at the defense table with his defense team in a Manhattan court in New York, U.S., April 4, 2023. /CFP
Conservative former U.S. appeals court judge John Michael Luttig in an opinion piece on Sunday said the Republican Party is making a serious error with "spineless support" for former U.S. President Donald Trump's new bid for the White House.
Luttig wrote in The New York Times that the GOP is in part to blame for Trump's federal indictment earlier this month which accused the 45th U.S. President of mishandling classified documents. There are few signs that Trump will face political consequences internally, which undermines the rule of law and threatens the future of the Republican Party, Luttig said.
"Building the Republican campaign around the newly indicted front-runner is a colossal political miscalculation, as comedic as it is tragic for the country," said Luttig, an appointee of Republican President George Herbert Walker Bush.
"No assemblage of politicians except the Republicans would ever conceive of running for the American presidency by running against the Constitution and the rule of law. But that's exactly what they're planning," Luttig wrote.
Luttig served as an informal adviser to Trump's vice president, Mike Pence, and gave testimony a year ago to the congressional committee that investigated the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol in 2021.
Since federal prosecutors unsealed a 37-count indictment against Trump earlier this month, most candidates in the crowded Republican primary field have come to his defense. Some have said as president they would pardon Trump, should he be convicted in the case.
Polling shows Trump holding a strong lead over his Republican rivals.
(With input from Reuters)
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