Posted on 09/12/2024 11:28:52 AM PDT by thegagline
Another high-ranking official in the George W. Bush administration endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris on Thursday, calling former President Donald Trump “perhaps the most serious threat to the rule of law in a generation.”
Former Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez revealed his support for Harris in an op-ed for Politico, saying he couldn’t “sit quietly” as Trump “eyes a return to the White House.”
“The American presidency is the most powerful position in the world. Of course, our constitution and laws, as well as institutions such as Congress and our courts, act as guardrails to that power,” wrote the 69-year-old former White House counsel.
The law provides the certainty of accountability and fundamental fairness,” he said. “Yet it is the president’s integrity, honesty and respect for our institutions that may be the most important and reliable check on abuses of power.”
“As the United States approaches a critical election, I can’t sit quietly as Donald Trump — perhaps the most serious threat to the rule of law in a generation — eyes a return to the White House,” he declared. “For that reason, though I’m a Republican, I’ve decided to support Kamala Harris for president.”
Gonzalez also let Harris skate on responsibility for President Biden’s least popular policy decisions regarding the economy and the US border crisis. *** “While I may disagree with some of her policies, I am hopeful she will be open to dissenting views and will act always in a manner respectful of the power of all three branches of government,” Gonzalez speculated. ***
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Gonzalez pontificates that “ the president’s integrity, honesty, and respect for our institutions that may be the most important and reliable check on the abuses of power.”
1). Harris has taken numerous diametrically opposed positions on a variety of major issues. Integrity? Honesty?
2) Harris wants to pack the Court. Is that being respectful of our institutions?
3) Harris paid the bail for numerous BLM rioters who looted, attacked police, murdered, and burnt down businesses and government buildings. Is that exhibiting respect for the law and accountability?
I could go on however stuff like this gives me agita.
This guy was a big lefty when he worked for Bush.
The Deep State is worried
Someone should point out the state of New York to Bertie here, and remind him that there is no law in the banana states of America.
Didn’t he try and get a Bush official who was in a hospital bed and out of it to sign an official document??
Add him to the list. Next?
Any “republicans” who have deceased relatives please notify the “media mafia” that they’ll be voting Democrat this time around. Harris needs more fake propaganda to win.
A cur will always bite the hand that feeds it.
Smoke 'em out, Trump - now we clearly see who the cleverly-disguised Commie sympathizers are.
May they burn i nhell along with Che Guevara and company.
That was my exact response. And we know, with each passing day, who the previously unidentified treasonous Deep Staters are. We don’t even need hearings.
It seems like eveeryon was a big lefty that worked for Bush.
Its starting to seem like we haven’t had a conservative in the GOP since Reagen.
Trump is getting all of them to expose themselves.
Did this threat exist during the first Trump administration?
“Donald Trump — perhaps the most serious threat to the rule of law in a generation”
That is one of the stupidest statements I’ve ever read. He totally ignores the extreme weaponization of law and Democrat creation and use of lawfare against Trump.
I’d like to thank Donald Trump for continuing to expose and fracture the Republican Party. I always saw it as the mess that is manifesting itself today.
Who was the threat in the previous generation?
This is the same Gonzalez that thought rendition, kidnapping people and taking them to Third World countries for torture, was legal.
Yeah, more prosperity and security for American citizens is a real threat according to Alberto.
That RINO horn eventually comes out.
The neo-con Bush-Cheney-Romney a-holes ignore the Dems’ lawfare, wars on pro-lifers, wars on Latin Mass Catholics, wars on the 1st amendment, wars on the 2nd amendment, wars on the rest of the Bill of Rights, censorship. EFF OFF, Alberto.
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