defeated in the June 2010 Republican primary. He "figures prominently" in the 2014 Merchants of Doubt documentary as an interviewee exposing the methods of science deniers. Personal life Inglis and his wife Mary Anne have five grown children, and they live on a small farm near Travelers Rest, north of Greenville. He is a member of St. John in the Wilderness, an Episcopal congregation in Flat Rock, NC. Opposition to Donald Trump In October 2016, Inglis was one of thirty GOP ex-lawmakers to sign a public letter condemning Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump. He had previously said, in a May 2016 interview with Chris Hayes, that "under no circumstances" could he vote for Trump. Commenting on Trump's campaign after the election, Inglis said: "It's one thing to represent people and give a voice to their fears. It is quite another to amplify those fears—that is surely the worst possible kind of leadership. It's demagoguery. The real sadness for me is that we knew it, and yet we voted for it. In a very real sense, the whole country has lost this election." Six months later, after House Speaker Paul Ryan accused Democrats of partisan bias in calling for Trump's impeachment over the firing of FBI director James Comey, then investigating possible links between Trump's campaign and Russia, Inglis chastised Ryan on Twitter, saying, "you know this isn't true" since Republicans would have had, in his opinion, ample grounds for considering impeachment if a Democratic president had done the things Trump was accused of. Reminded that he had, as a member of the House Judiciary Committee, voted to impeach President Bill Clinton in 1998, he said that was "for matters less serious than the ones before us now." References External links official campaign site |- |- |- 1959 births 21st-century American politicians American Presbyterians Duke University alumni Intelligent design advocates Living people People from Bluffton, South Carolina People from Travelers Rest, South Carolina Politicians from Savannah, Georgia Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from South Carolina South Carolina lawyers University of Virginia School of Law alumni