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Martin Pengelly in Washington

‘Morally indefensible’ – but George W Bush will not come out against Trump

A man in a blue shirt looks forward
George W Bush at the Dallas Cowboys and New York Giants game in November 2023 in Arlington, Texas. Photograph: Cooper Neill/Getty Images

The MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell this week hit out at George W Bush, the Republican former president, for refusing to weigh in on America’s looming presidential election.

“All any decent person wants him to do is to say, ‘Don’t vote for Donald Trump, and here’s why,’ and he won’t even do that,” O’Donnell told the Fast Politics podcast, of the Republican president who was in office from 2001 to 2009.

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