‘Morally indefensible’ – but George W Bush will not come out against Trump

While Dick Cheney has endorsed Harris, there have been no comments from other senior Republicans from Bush's era

The MSNBC host Lawrence O'Donnell this week hit out at George W Bush, the Republican former president, for refusing to weigh in on America's looming presidential election.

All any decent person wants him to do is to say, Don't vote for Donald Trump, and here's why,' and he won't even do that," O'Donnell told the Fast Politics podcast, of the Republican president who was in office from 2001 to 2009.