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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Also saying that Hillary is more fit? If given the chance, she will let our enemies know all our secrets and getting our troops killed.
We have been knowing Hillary for thirty some years and there is nothing she can say "at this point" that would make any difference.
and Bob Gates, along with all his Globalist traitor comrades, is UNFIT to be an American.
hoprtully none of our military weapons have to run on gates’ software ?!
Robert Gates is an idiot. He’d put a collapsing bribed, Benghazi-lying Hillary in charge of the U.S. defense.
Idiot.
Notably, in a CBS News Battleground Tracker poll of likely voters in swing states released Sunday, 23 percent of Trump supporters said the GOP nominee should follow his instincts on foreign policy, rather than listening to advisors. Only 12 percent of Clinton supporters said the same.
The Cheap Labor Express is really freaked out that Trump will win.
They are bringing out the JV team
Yes they did. Wrong then, wrong now.
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From Wiki:
“Gates served as a member of the Iraq Study Group, the bipartisan commission co-chaired by James A. Baker III and Lee H. Hamilton, that studied the lessons of the Iraq War.”
Oh I bet they learned some good lessons alright.
Yes, they’ve (GOP Establishment and the DNC) have been ripping off, disenfranchising, marginalizing American workers and patriots for too long.
They are super-scared of Trump and that makes them very dangerous.
A stupid f$%%ken BushBot that would rather have Hillary win & get that Liberal Majority on the Supreme Court then have TRUMP win!
Yeah, me too. But you know Bill’s a fascist.
Is that for real? I have been waiting for someone to tell all these weenie emperors that they aren’t wearing any clothes!
Reciting Hillary’s talking points does not add to Gate’s credibility in his op-ed. He is just another Beltway insider afraid that Trump will turn over the feeding trough.
Gee Bob, rather than being the Turd in the Punch Bowl, why didn’t you volunteer to join the Trump Team so you could impart your wisdom to them regarding the World we live in?
BTW Bob, how many People did Trump’s incompetence kill?
How many Countries did Trump hand over to Muslim Jihadi Terrorists?
How many National Security Secrets were compromised because Trump used an unsecured Private Email Server?
Does Trump want our Borders wide open so anyone and everyone with bad intentions toward the United States of America?
How about you ask Hillary these questions Bob before you go through all the trouble of writing a Poison Pen Editorial.
Geez, Bob sure is an A$$hole.
It sure is and he actually has it pinned at the top of his Twitter - https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/777284744253812740
Isn’t it Gates, the do gooder, who was caught on camera talking to a group saying they were promoting and using some sort of vaccine (flu, I think) in 3rd world countries, which permanently left women infertile, and if pregnant caused miscarriage?
>>A stupid f$%%ken BushBot that would rather have Hillary win & get that Liberal Majority on the Supreme Court then have TRUMP win!
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thereby exposing, once and for all, who these people REALLY are....and patriots they are not! Globalist, thy name is Bushbots and NeverTrumpers.
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