Posted on 09/17/2016 11:08:17 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Norman Podhoretz, a founder of the neoconservative movement, said that he backs Donald Trump for president.
With his endorsement in an interview this week in the Times of Israel, the former editor of Commentary magazine parts ways with the many neoconservatives who say they cannot support the Republican nominee because of his foreign policy views.
Podhoretz, 86, said that any concerns he had about Trump are outweighed by his trepidation at a Hillary Clinton presidency.
He cites especially her role, as secretary of state in President Barack Obama’s first term, in shaping last year’s deal in which Iran rolled back nuclear development in exchange for sanctions relief.
“I think the Iran deal is one of the most catastrophic actions that any American president has ever taken,” Podhoretz told the Times of Israel. “That’s how seriously I regard it. It paves the way for Iran to get a nuclear weapon.”
Commentary, a vanguard of neoconservatism when it was edited by Podhoretz from the 1960s through the mid-1990s, has now become a locus of conservative discontent with Trump because of his admiration of Russian President Vladimir Putin and his derision of President George W. Bush for his handling of the war in Iraq and of terrorism.
Podhoretz’s son John Podhoretz, who now edits the magazine, is a prominent figure in the ad hoc #NeverTrump movement.
Norman Podhoretz said that his son continues to try to persuade him about Trump’s demerits.
“He thinks that Trump is worse, and I think that Hillary is worse,” he said. “He keeps trying to persuade me. He sends me things, articles, showing how bad Trump is. And I keep saying, ‘I know all this. I don’t need to be persuaded.’”
Is John his son?
The son is the one I know. Didn’t think he could be 96 yet :)
He’s a HARDCORE NEOCON.
He spewed more propaganda leading up to the Iraq war than anyone else. He wanted that war so badly he could taste it.
But he let Sauds slide.
I want to see him debate Paul Wolfowitz.
Not even the Left admires Hillary Clinton.
John has been insufferably nasty about Trump. My opinion of John podhoretz has been forever diminished.
Norman Pohoretz is the more insightful, more penetrating thinker and writer.
“Is John his son?”
Yep, I can’t listen to the guy in podcasts anymore. He’s gotten worse than Mona Charen. Nothing but bitching about Trump.
I am shocked to be honest, now the rest of them need top grow a functioning brain. They are still toast as afar as I am concerned, but at least they are toast I can tolerate.
Not good this guy is wacko
Hillary is a lifelong criminal. Old school gangster biotch. A dyke gangster with a taste for camels.
“I think the Iran deal is one of the most catastrophic actions that any American president has ever taken,” Podhoretz told the Times of Israel. “That’s how seriously I regard it. It paves the way for Iran to get a nuclear weapon.”
THE IRAN DEAL PAVES THE WAY FOR THE DESTRUCTION OF ISRAEL AND THE START OF WORLD WAR III. Hillary must be stopped. Thanks you Norman Podhoretz... every voice counts...
“PODHERETZ PLAYING THE NEOCON GOOD COP BAD COP GAME:
he lost drawing straws to see which pukeneo would slither into the Trump camp. “
We KNOW all about The Pode, so nice try bub!
LOL!
I thought he died years ago. Good for him.
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