“I cannot imagine how anyone with any respect for the law at all would support a man like that to be our president.”
“ I’m Gary. I’m from Arizona. I’m a former Trump voter, but in 2024, I will not be voting for Donald Trump.
“I could not support Donald Trump to be president of the United States or really hold any office again because, mainly because while he was in office when he lost the election, he made a very, definite attempt to overthrow the results of that election, in a violent way by summoning his mob to the Capitol on January 6th.
“January 6th was very personal to me. Not because I was there, but because I’m a former law enforcement officer. And I watched minutes after minutes of footage of police officers being attacked and injured by these people who seemed to think that they had been directed by Donald Trump to go and do that very thing that they were doing. To destroy property and attack police and fight their way into the Capitol.
“And then in knowing that over 150, I believe, Capitol police officers were injured enough to have some need for medical attention. One of them died a couple of days later, Brian Sicknick. Although the legal cause of death was not an act of violence, it’s kind of hard to believe that when a healthy younger man has a stroke that kills him.
“It has also been smacked on the head with a fire extinguisher. I believe it was, two or three days before that that didn’t have something to do with his death. Officer Michael Fanone, who is actually a DC metro officer, suffered a heart attack during the event and is probably very fortunate to be alive.
“Also, understand that three or four officers committed suicide in the weeks following that event. And I can understand why, although I’ve never been suicidal myself, the feeling that the very people you were trying to protect, were the ones that turned you over to a mob. He also indicated he intends to pardon a lot of these people, people who assaulted officers violently with no hint of justification at all for doing so.
“And he has indicated he will pardon them. After all of the good, hard work that the Department of Justice did to identify and bring these people into, get them into custody and, he wants to spring him. I cannot imagine how anyone with any respect for the law at all would support a man like that to be our president.
“Between Trump and his running mate, JD Vance, we have a combination that is laden with authoritarian impulses and, anti-woman attitude. I cannot imagine really a worst combination of people to be occupying the top two spots in our executive branch.
“So I’ll be happily supporting Kamala Harris in 2024.”