Geoff Duncan is the former Republican lieutenant governor of Georgia, and it’s safe to say he is not fond of the former president.

Recently on CNN, he noted Trump has “the moral compass of more like an axe murderer than a president.” While Duncan is a regular contributor on CNN, he made this remark during an interview on Monday, sharply criticizing the former president: “As a Republican, the dashboard is going off with lights and bells and whistles telling us all the warning things we need to know.”

“Ninety-one indictments, fake Republican, $8 trillion worth of debt,” Duncan added. “Everything we need to see to not choose him as our nominee, including the fact he’s got the moral compass of more like an axe murderer than a president.”

Nowhere is that clearer than in Trump’s glowering mugshot after he was arrested in Georgia on Thursday, where he now has been charged with 13 counts relating to claims that he broke the law attempting to interfere with election results in the state. As is typical, he still claims he hasn’t done anything wrong and describes the accusations against him as “election interference” and a “witch hunt” on Truth Social.

During the interview, Duncan also discussed the case of Mark Meadows, Trump’s former chief of staff and one of 18 other co-defendants in the Georgia case. Meadows testified in Georgia earlier in the day as he’s attempting to move the case against him to a federal court. That would allow his legal team to argue he has immunity.

CNN’s Kaitlan Collins noted that in his memoirs, Meadows wrote that his job was to tell the “most powerful man in the world” when he was in the wrong, and suggested he “didn’t do that when it probably mattered the most.”

Duncan agreed with Collins.

“Well, he must’ve whispered it in his ear and not said it out loud, because I certainly have never seen examples of him standing up to Donald Trump.”

“I think it’s so interesting to continue to watch this play out like some sort of Ponzi scheme of lies that just kind of built,” Duncan said. “And if you look at their defenses at this point, it’s all technicalities.”

It’s safe to say that Trump supporters probably don’t love Duncan, especially since he angered them by refusing to support attempts to reverse the outcome of the 2020 election in Georgia and later criticizing the then-president for spreading “10 weeks of misinformation.” In May 2021, Duncan announced he wouldn’t run for reelection during the 2022 midterms.

Duncan also took a swipe at Trump on Saturday on X, in response to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution front page reporting on the 19 arrests in Georgia, where all 19 mugshots of the defendants were featured, with Donald Trump squarely in the middle.

“This image will either serve as a pivot point or a last gasp for the GOP,” Duncan wrote. “History will show Donald Trump was one of our nation’s biggest mistakes ever. It will take decades to unwind the damage he’s done to the GOP.”

This image will either serve as a pivot point or a last gasp for the @GOP. History will show @realDonaldTrump was one of our nation’s biggest mistakes ever. It will take decades to unwind the damage he’s done to the @GOP. https://t.co/lBOaGDPedm

— Geoff Duncan (@GeoffDuncanGA) August 26, 2023

But Republicans brought this on all by themselves. As this list from Ballotpedia shows, scores of congressional Republicans, and more than a few in the Senate, as well as a number of GOP governors (including New Jersey’s then-governor Chris Christie) supported Trump when he ran for President in 2016.

Indeed, the GOP largely and unquestioningly supported Trump at the time and that’s how the country arrived at this place. So much damage has been done that it’s almost as if the U.S. is now split in two. It’s like there’s Trump-supporting fanatics and candidates like Ron DeSantis who are trying to out-Trump Trump and be as evil as possible, and then there’s the rest of us against this mob of white nationalists, anti-LGBTQ+ extremists.

So thank you, Republicans, for punishing us with YOUR mistake.

U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan has set March 4, 2024, as the date Trump’s trial is set to begin. His legal team has requested the trial be put off until 2026, arguing that the current start time doesn’t give them enough time to prepare an “adequate defense.”

His legal team doesn’t deserve this. All of them have known for months and months what is coming down the pike and if that hasn’t readied them for trial then perhaps they are all in the wrong profession.

I say let the trial begin and may justice prevail.