New York Times editorial board declares Donald Trump ‘unfit to lead’

Donald Trump is “dangerous” and “unfit to lead” the country, the New York Times editorial board argued in a scathing, multi-part article ahead of next week’s GOP convention.

“He has demonstrated an utter lack of respect for the Constitution, the rule of law and the American people,” the article on Thursday argued. “Instead of a cogent vision for the country’s future, Mr. Trump is animated by a thirst for political power: to use the levers of government to advance his interests, satisfy his impulses and exact retribution against those who he thinks have wronged him.”

The editorial board pointed to a variety of factors in making this claim, from Trump’s continued false claims about the 2020 election and support for January 6 rioters to his stated plans for mass deportations and unilaterally using military force on domestic protesters.

It also slams the wider Republican as a “once great political party [that] now serves the interests of one man, a man as demonstrably unsuited for the office of president as any to run in the long history of the Republic.”

The Independent has contacted the Trump campaign for comment.

The newspaper’s Editorial Board is a group of opinion journalists and the Times says it “does not speak for the newsroom or The Times as a whole.”

Trump may have lost the nation’s paper of record, but he heads into next week’s Republican National Convention as politically strong as ever, despite unprecedented marks on his record like being the first US president in American history to be convicted on criminal charges.

Most national polls show him beating Joe Biden in the general election, and the Democratic party is currently engaged in an embarrassingpublic debate over whether another candidate should