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 ...
Obama has for 7 years and you didn’t seem to give a rats ass about that!
Have any of the GOP elites been critical of Obama’s disastrous policies — at home and abroad?
Spit.
These establishment Republicans prefer a Democrat who will continue her predecessor’s policy of gutting the military, the guarantor of our national security.
top GOP officials... should be in quotes...
Inoherwards GOP E dudes way past thier shelf life....Well la ti da da!
Pure speculation on Trump while Obama and Hillary already HAVE risked the country’s national security & continue to do so.
It’s very obvious who has the COUNTRY’S best interests at heart & who is concerned with protecting their own cozy little pocket-lining country club bubble in DC & elsewhere. The GOPe temper tantrum continues because Trump will dump the sand out of their sandbox.
The mask has come off, aint it.
The GOPe, since the “big tent” capitulation, has not been anything other than a slave to the DNC in every aspect that matters.
The spineless, thieving, degenerate thumb-sucking filth can’t even pretend to not be the prison b**ch punks for the destructionist cause now.
All I see is Michael Hayden and John Negroponte. I’m not concerned. What I am concerned about is whether Hillary initiated this story since Politico takes its marching orders from Hillary per her. e-mails.
NYT was first with the story, but the blame lies with the 50 signatories. It’s roughly the Bush clan.
Tom Ridge too.
The 29 CFR members who signed the statement:
Bellinger, John
Blackwill, Robert
Cohen, Eliot
Falkenrath, Richard
Fontaine, Richard
Frazer, Jendayi
Friedberg, Aaron
Green, Michael
Gunderson, Bryan
Hayden, Michael
Hills, Carla
Inboden, William
Jeffery, Reuben
Jeffrey, James
Kassinger, Theodore
Long, Mary Beth
Negroponte, John
O’Sullivan, Meghan
Price, Daniel
Rostow, Nicholas
Schake, Kori
Silverberg, Kristen
Tahir-Kheli, Shirin
Taft, William
Wainstein, Kenneth
Waxman, Matthew
Zakheim, Dov
Zelikow, Philip
Zoellick, Robert
Trump scares the hell out of people with something to hide.
Trump is the antithesis of the wink and nod corruption present in prior administrations, including GOP.
Keep it dull, rusted, and a little on the light side.
Michael Chertoff...the guy who completely wiped out border security and gave jobs to people (Phil Perry....Cheney’s son in law) who destroyed the homeland security budget as with his SBI Net ‘virtual fence’ systems! This is the last guy who should condemn ANYONE as being a security risk!
http://towncriernews.blogspot.com/search?q=Chertoff
No one outside the media trying to hurt Trump gives a damn about what these people say.
Are they all on the Saudi/Wahhabi tit?
“GOP national security officials warned in a new letter that Trump would “risk our country’s national security and well-being.”
Where ya’all been the last 7 1/2 years!
AWOL, azzholes.
5.56mm
don’t see Cruz’s wifes name on the list so evidently she is still on leave to deal with her three children.
Relax folks, this is just more politico bull shit, no names, end of story.
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