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David Smith in Washington

‘I’m more worried today than I was on January 6’: top conservative’s warning to America

Donald Trump at a rally in Hialeah, Florida on Wednesday. The former president is the clear frontrunner for the Republican nomination.
Donald Trump at a rally in Hialeah, Florida on Wednesday. The former president is the clear frontrunner for the Republican nomination. Photograph: Octavio Jones/Reuters

Michael Luttig knows the eye of the storm. On the night of 4 January 2021, the retired federal judge advised Mike Pence, the vice-president, against trying to overturn the results of the presidential election. Last year on live television he delivered compelling testimony to the congressional panel investigating the January 6 insurrection.

Now, with less than a year until the nation goes back to the polls, Luttig recognises that the battle to save the American republic from the demagoguery of Donald Trump is far from over – and he is more worried than ever before.

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