Mike Turner, the top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, condemned the former president’s position.
During an interview on CBS’s Face the Nation, the Ohio congressman dismissed what Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform the day before, when he called “the end of all rules,” including those, due to his false claims of the Constitution, demanded regarding the election he ran against Democrat Joe Biden.
In this sense, he believes that “people will certainly take such a statement into account when evaluating a candidate”.
“First of all, I strongly disagree with the statement that Trump made,” he said, noting that the former Oval Office resident “made a thousand statements with which I disagree.”
Others in the party, like Rep. David Joyce, also from Ohio, declined to openly condemn Trump’s proposal and his candidacy for the election campaign in two years.
During an appearance this Sunday on ABC’s This Week, he noted that Trump is “saying a lot of things.”
But “you have to put it in context (…) And I can’t really go after every one of those crazy statements that come out from any of these candidates.”
The former ruler has also been criticized in recent days for having dinner with Ye, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West, and white supremacist Nick Fuentes at his residence in Mar-a-Lago, Florida last month.
Joyce expressed doubts that Trump would ultimately win the GOP presidential nomination in 2024, citing the party’s other prominent figures considering a run and declining to answer whether he would support the former president himself, if he was elected.
“I will support whoever the Republican nominee is. And I just don’t think I can do it right now because I think there are so many other good candidates,” he said.
Trump officially entered the 2024 race on Nov. 15, while other potential competitors, including former Vice President Mike Pence, expected to make a decision after the holidays.
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