Longtime conservative columnist Jim Geraghty expressed both shock and dismay over a report that a fundraiser for Jan. 6 insurrectionists has been approved and booked at former President Donald Trump's Bedminster, NJ, club just weeks before voters go to the polls in November.
The National Review writer, who has been skeptical of the Trump's re-election bid, wrote on Friday that he can see no good in allowing the fundraiser going forward because it could lead the former president to once again remind voters of the attack on the Capitol just before a close election.
Geraghty began his column by sarcastically writing, "Oh, perfect," before adding, "Come on. A 'J6 Awards Gala' being held at Donald Trump’s Bedminster, New Jersey, golf club on September 5 feels like a Tom Wolfe feature article from an alternate dimension."
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As he wrote, it doesn't currently appear Trump will be a featured attraction at the fundraiser at his resort that doubles as his home, but it still runs the risk he will somehow become involved.
He then noted that Trump's law-and-order stance goes out the window when it comes to the Jan. 6 rioters, complaining the former president "transforms into a bleeding heart liberal, focused on the rights of the accused. There’s no consistency, no principle, just pure situational ethics."
With that said, he wrote, "Someone in Trump-world really thought it would be a good idea to host a fundraiser for January 6 defenders roughly two months before Election Day, a scenario that is extremely likely to spur Trump to give another one of his unhinged, full-throated defenses of everyone arrested, indicted, and convicted that day."
"You can’t save people who keep sticking the fork in the electrical socket, just to prove they can," he lamented.
You can read his whole column here.
