Posted on 09/17/2016 7:52:06 PM PDT by Rennes Templar
Former Defense Secretary Bob Gates savaged Donald Trump in a Wall Street Journal op-ed published Saturday, declaring the Republican presidential nominee “unqualified and unfit to be commander-in-chief.”
“At least on national security, I believe Mr. Trump is beyond repair,” Gates wrote. “He is stubbornly uninformed about the world and how to lead our country and government, and temperamentally unsuited to lead our men and women in uniform.”
He offered some gentle criticism of Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, urging her to be more candid on how she’d deal with China, Russia, North Korea, and Iran. He also suggested she suffers from “credibility issues” on national security and transparency, but he argued she “has time before the election to address forthrightly her trustworthiness, to reassure people about her judgment.”
Gates, now the chancellor at William & Mary, offered no such optimism on Trump, describing the GOP nominee as “naïve and irresponsible” on Russia, “oblivious” on the fight against ISIS, and “willfully ignorant” about foreign relations and the military.
“The world we confront is too perilous and too complex to have as president a man who believes he, and he alone, has all the answers and has no need to listen to anyone,” Gates wrote. “In domestic affairs, there are many checks on what a president can do; in national security there are few constraints. A thin-skinned, temperamental, shoot-from-the-hip and lip, uninformed commander-in-chief is too great a risk for America.”
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Ooooops, I think I got the wrong Gates, too.
You nailed it.
Hillary “has time before the election to address her trustworthiness and reassure people about her judgment”???
She’s a liar. How do you fix that? How many people trust liars?
“why didn’t you volunteer to join the Trump Team...?”
Once a globalist, always a globalist. No going back, no disloyalty to the cause.
Say good-bye to our William and Mary donation...
The serially corrupt brain-damaged Hillary is obviously his perfect candidate. Keep-on talking Gates...Please! You only help The Donald's candidacy because all people remember from you is failure!
Bob Gates after being head of the Boy Scouts of America: “... the organization is well-positioned for the future after deciding to allow openly gay adult leaders in its ranks...”
Sorry that Trump used “crooked” instead of “incompetent “ to describe Hillary...
yes and H Clinton knows so much that she let people die in Benghazi, lied about it, set up her server in her basement, sent classified info on it, and then lied again.
Middle east in flames, people lost their homes in their millions, Russia re-set is a failure, Africa in turmoil.
Oh yes Gates she knows so much about foreign affairs.
Yeah Gates took a swipe at all the presidents he worked for but seemed to have a fondness for Obama. Likely he was afraid of being called a racist if his criticism rose to the same level as he had for Bush as an example. Which makes me think he really just comes across as an arrogant know-it-all POS.
Go to hell Gates. You mean nothing to anybody. Who the hell are you?
I think the target just fired back.
You have a good memory.
BoBo said that? Hillaryous!
HOORAY Trump
Being denounced by Robert Gates [and GWB too] is quite an honor.
One has to wonder how much the Boy Scouts paid Bob Gates to come into their organization and clear the way for openly homosexual men to lead boys.
Democrats very excited that the George W Bush guys back Hillary.
Reagan was called thin skinned and temperamental? I thought he was called a dumb B movie actor trying to bite more than he can chew.
They’ll say anything as they have to get her in at all costs. If she’s half-dead they don’t care, they can still run their agenda through her and keep the gravy train chugging.
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