Posted on 08/08/2016 1:52:07 PM PDT by rktman
Donald Trump's effort to appeal to establishment Republicans suffered another setback on Monday as 50 senior GOP national security officials warned in a new letter that Trump would "risk our country’s national security and well-being.”
The signatories of the letter, which was first reported by The New York Times, all worked in Republican administrations, with many serving as top aides to President George W. Bush. They said none of them would be voting for Trump.
“Trump lacks the character, values, and experience to be President,” they wrote. “He weakens U.S. moral authority as the leader of the free world. He appears to lack basic knowledge about and belief in the U.S. Constitution, U.S. laws, and U.S. institutions, including religious tolerance, freedom of the press, and an independent judiciary.”
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
Don’t you guys think that the new GOP Establishment (i.e. us) will mercilessly continue to attack the Paul Ryan’s of the world all over the net?
For now at least it’s the one thing the media can’t control. Continuing to purge like Kansas did last week.
These are the people that would be on the space station in the movie Elysium, safely away from the lowly masses.
I only see 2 names.
After all, our national security has been so well preserved by Obama and Clinton; it would be a shame for Trump to ruin all they have done for us.
50 top GOP officals = Hillary RINOs...
Of course none of these globalists has ever publicly expressed similar concerns about the current President, a Marxist subversive who has intentionally weakened the U.S. in every way imaginable since day one in office. Why? Because 0bama’s goals and their goals are one and the same. Same as W’s. And of course Hillary’s.
They are not Republicans, they are full-fledged members of the Uniparty.
What the hell does a regulatory body need with $6.5 dollars? AND he was the deputy.
Second:
Shirin R. Tahir-Kheli
She is the daughter of a late Pakistani Scientist that developed Islam's first Nuclear weapons.
Senior director for Democracy, Human Rights and International Operations at the UN Security Council from 2003-2005.
I don't need to tell you guys how Islam has taken over the UN.
The list of lice:
Donald B. Ayer Former Deputy Attorney General John B. Bellinger III Former Legal Adviser to the Department of State; former Legal Adviser to the National Security Council, The White House Robert Blackwill Former Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategic Planning, The White House Michael Chertoff Former Secretary of Homeland Security; former Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division, Department of Justice Eliot A. Cohen Former Counselor of the Department of State Eric Edelman Former Under Secretary of Defense for Policy; former National Security Advisor to the Vice President, The White House Gary Edson Former Deputy National Security Advisor, The White House Richard Falkenrath Former Deputy Homeland Security Advisor, The White House Peter Feaver Former Senior Director for Strategic Planning, National Security Council, The White House Richard Fontaine Former Associate Director for Near East Affairs, National Security Council, The White House Jendayi Frazer Former Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for African Affairs; former Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Aaron Friedberg Former Deputy National Security Advisor to the Vice President, The White House David Gordon Former Director of Policy Planning, Department of State Michael Green Former Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Asia, National Security Council, The White House Brian Gunderson Former Chief of Staff, Department of State Paul Haenle Former Director for China and Taiwan, National Security Council, The White House Michael Hayden Former Director, Central Intelligence Agency; former Director, National Security Agency Carla A. Hills Former U.S. Trade Representative John Hillen Former Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs William Inboden Former Senior Director for Strategic Planning, National Security Council, The White House Reuben Jeffery III Former Under Secretary of State for Economic Energy and Agricultural Affairs; former Special Assistant to the President for International Economic Affairs, National Security Council, The White House James Jeffrey Former Deputy National Security Advisor, The White House Ted Kassinger Former Deputy Secretary of Commerce David Kramer Former Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor James Langdon Former Chairman, President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, The White House Peter Lichtenbaum Former Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Export Administration Mary Beth Long Former Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs Clay Lowery Former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs; former Director for International Finance, National Security Council, The White House Robert McCallum Former Associate Attorney General; former Ambassador to Australia Richard Miles Former Director for North America, National Security Council, The White House Andrew Natsios Former Administrator, U.S. Agency for International Development John Negroponte Former Director of National Intelligence; former Deputy Secretary of State; former Deputy National Security Advisor Meghan O’Sullivan Former Deputy National Security Advisor for Iraq and Afghanistan Dan Price Former Deputy National Security Advisor Tom Ridge Former Secretary of Homeland Security; former Assistant to the President for Homeland Security, The White House; former Governor of Pennsylvania Nicholas Rostow Former Legal Adviser to the National Security Council, The White House Kori Schake Former Director for Defense Strategy, National Security Council, The White House Kristen Silverberg Former Assistant Secretary of State for International Organizations Stephen Slick Former Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Intelligence Programs, National Security Council, The White House Shirin R. Tahir-Kheli Former Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Democracy, Human Rights and International Operations, National Security Council, The White House; former Ambassador and Senior Advisor for Women’s Empowerment, Department of State William H. Taft IV Former Deputy Secretary of Defense; former Ambassador to NATO Larry D. Thompson Former Deputy Attorney General William Tobey Former Deputy Administrator, National Nuclear Security Administration, Department of Energy; former Director for CounterProliferation Strategy, National Security Council, The White House John Veroneau Former Deputy U.S. Trade Representative Kenneth Wainstein Former Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism, The White House; former Assistant Attorney General for National Security, Department of Justice Matthew Waxman Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense; former Director for Contingency Planning and International Justice, National Security Council, The White House Dov Zakheim Former Under Secretary of Defense Roger Zakheim Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Philip Zelikow Former Counselor of the Department of State Robert Zoellick Former U.S. Trade Representative; former Deputy Secretary of State
I bet every single one of them is on the Saudi payroll.
Vote Trump!
Hillary Clinton tenure as SoS has demonstrated that she is a security risk at home and abroad.
The GOPe is really trying to cut Trump off at the knees for short term political security.
Even if one accepts all of the pejoratives served up by this group, Trump is head, shoulders, and torso higher than Hillary, who is known to have been extremely careless (at the very minimum) with national security secrets, and has flouted US law to foment devolution in Libya, and likely elsewhere.
That is EVEN IF one accepts the premise of these folks’ argument.
The end result will be the death of the GOPe for good.
Who is going to win the World Series this year? Super Bowl? Since you are saying what the future holds why not go all the way?
World series? Packers and Yankees. Super Bowl? Dodgers and Saints. :-)
Why? Because 0bama’s goals and their goals are one and the same. Same as W’s. And of course Hillary’s.
BINGO! Truth that bears repeating.
Instead of punishing the REAL enemy and supporter of terrorism, Saudi Arabia, W and his neocons minions poked, then smashed the biggest hornets' nest in the Middle East: Saddam's IRAQ. That FUBARed any previously relative stability in the region, and allowed fundamental Islamists to organize and spread their Caliphate.
Making matters worse, the US Military actually TRAINED Saddam's former army on OUR tactics and weaponry. Many of Saddam's people eventually became part of ISIS and other terrorists.
Marxist-Anarchists 0bama and Hillary merely finalized the full FUBARing of the Middle East with their 'Arab Spring'.
So to your point -- the ONLY thing that worries the same Globalist cabal that made an absolute mess of the Middle East and relations with Russia, is a Trump Presidency that re-calibrates and unleashes America's military, and re-stabilizes the Middle East.
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