Former "Tea Party" Republican Rep. Denver Riggleman (VA) is telling former Donald Trump staff and appointees who've come out against their ex-boss that it's not enough.
Speaking to MSNBC on Sunday, Riggleman addressed recent comments from former adviser and communications director Anthony Scaramucci, who promoted Joe Biden in a recent interview.
The ex-congressman agreed it's "absolutely" time for those anti-Trump Republicans to speak out publicly.
"When you see Scaramucci, or you see Adam Kinzinger, you see all these individuals say, you know, 'If it's Trump/Biden, I'm voting for Joe Biden,'" he explained. "It's really not much of a choice for anybody if they're worried about law, order, or even sanity, or somebody who buys into conspiracy theories for their own self-aggrandizement or self-identifies as a dictator in talks about retribution."
Over the past several months, many former Trump White House officials such as Mark Esper, John Bolton, Bill Barr, James Mattis, retired Gen. Mark Milley, H.R. McMaster, and others have stepped forward to talk about the danger that Trump poses to the country.
Most recently, Bolton updated his book with a new forward discussion of Trump's ignorance about NATO and other foreign policy issues. Milley has called Trump a "wannabe dictator." Barr said he "shouldn't be anywhere near the Oval Office." None of those Republicans have been willing to say that they will vote for Biden over Trump.
Former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) has been emphatic about her opposition to another Trump term and outlined the dangers she believes it poses. When asked, however, if she was supporting Biden, she dodged, saying she wasn't, seemingly holding out hope there would be another GOP nominee. It has been reported she will work to push former MAGA people into the Biden camp. Trump has clinched all of the first primary and caucus states. Cheney also called it "vital" that the GOP lose Congress in 2024.
Barr, in particular, made it clear that he thinks Democrats are a greater threat than Trump. Still, he attacked Trump for his "abject stupidity" in trying to get Ukraine to investigate Biden.
Riggleman wants those folks to make it clear that Biden is the only option.
"This is a person that you don't want anywhere near, I would say the Oval Office again," he continued. "You do have a former president who is running who has a lot of support. This is an individual that is out of touch with reality, or pretends to be out of touch with reality to actually ignite the base, try to make the base violent, or to do things outside of what normal behavior would be."
Based on past experiences with Trump, those who worked with him should be the first to understand.
"There is no question, if you're looking at what the former president has done, the people around him, the quality of people around him, which might be as high as a slug crawling on the ground, I think when you look at the quality of people around and who he picks, who surrounds himself with, I think there's nobody else to vote for than Joe Biden," he closed.
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