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Martin Pengelly in New York

Judge who told Pence not to overturn election predicts ‘beginning of end of Trump’

J Michael Luttig, right, is sworn-in to testify during a public hearing of the House select committee to investigate the January 6 attack, on 16 June 2022.
J Michael Luttig, right, is sworn-in to testify during a public hearing of the House select committee to investigate the January 6 attack, on 16 June 2022. Photograph: Rex/Shutterstock

The conservative judge who convinced Mike Pence he could not overturn the 2020 election has predicted “the beginning of the end of Donald Trump” – the former president who incited the January 6 insurrection but is now trying to return to the White House.

Speaking to the Washington Post, J Michael Luttig also made a common comparison to another notorious former president, Richard Nixon, who resigned in 1974 over the Watergate scandal.

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