Ex-US diplomat James Baker will vote for Trump 'to get conservative judges', book reveals

[Judi Lynn]

The former secretary of state reconsidered voting for Joe Biden saying the ‘big picture’ – Republican control – was important

Martin Pengelly

@MartinPengelly
Thu 24 Sep 2020 01.00 EDTLast modified on Thu 24 Sep 2020 01.01 EDT


Former secretary of state James Baker considered voting for Joe Biden in November but will instead keep backing Donald Trump, a new biography reveals, in the process outlining a key reason for continued Republican support for the scandal-plagued US president.

Though the “myriad ethical scandals surrounding Trump were head-spinning”, Peter Baker and Susan Glasser write, “Baker kept telling himself it was worth it to get conservative judges, tax cuts and deregulation.”

The Man Who Ran Washington: The Life and Times of James A Baker III, will be published on Tuesday. The Guardian obtained a copy.

Baker, 90, is a pillar of the Republican establishment who served his party under Gerald Ford, as campaign chief; Ronald Reagan, as White House chief of staff and treasury secretary; George HW Bush, as chief of staff and secretary of state; and George W Bush, playing a major role in winning the recount in Florida in 2000 which put the younger Bush in the Oval Office despite losing the popular vote.

More:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/sep/23/james-baker-biography-trump-judges

[Pachamama]

1. Cancer will always want to continue to grow

Baker is part of the original cancer that has afflicted the United States in this last century

It’s Metastatic....

[RockRaven]

2. Hopefully most right wing fuckwits will confuse this guy with Jim Food-Bucket Bakker

and since his acolytes were voting Trump to begin with, it won't move the needle.

[CaptYossarian]

3. Thanks for 9/11 and the following two wars.

And thanks for the Depression that cost us so many jobs and the six of my co-workers who committed suicide after our mass layoff.

Couldn't have done it without you. Now go vote for Satan and STFU.

[BigDemVoter]

4. If course that fucking traitor will.

He was the key person in getting the loser, George W. Bush, installed in the White House by the Supreme Court in 2000. Leopards don't change their spots. . . .

[Solly Mack]

5. WTF could possibly be shocked by this?