Jackie Calmes: If the GOP candidates won't take on Trump, why run at all?
by Jackie Calmes, Los Angeles Times
Jun 15, 2023
3 minutes
Much like most of the other Republicans supposedly taking on Donald Trump for the 2024 presidential nomination, his former veep, Mike Pence, made a show on Saturday of lamenting Trump's "unprecedented indictment by a Justice Department run by the current president of the United States and potential political rival."
As if prosecuting Trump on its face is a bad thing, and Joe Biden the bad guy.
Well, here are a couple other things that are unprecedented:
Trump's conduct, for one. After he left office, still refusing to concede defeat, he willfully retained hundreds of classified documents,
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