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Members of George W Bush’s administration leave Republican Party, calling it ‘Trump cult’
Dozens of Republicans in former President George W Bush’s administration are leaving the party, dismayed by a failure of many elected Republicans to disown Donald Trump after a deadly storming of the US Capitol last month.
Key points:
- Some Republicans have ended their party membership, others are letting it lapse or are newly registered as independents
- Roughly 60 to 70 former Bush officials have reportedly left
- Republican officials have recently indicated they are “having a spat” within the party at present
These officials, some who served in the highest echelons of the Bush administration, said they had hoped that a Trump defeat would encourage party leaders to move on from the former president and denounce his baseless claims that the…
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