Former GOP National Security Officials : Trump Is "Profoundly Unfit" To Serve Another Term
70 former national security officials under Republican presidents released a blistering letter today stating that President* Trump is unfit to serve a second term as president , and is in fact a danger to the national security of the United States.
"We are profoundly concerned about the course of our nation under the leadership of Donald Trump. Through his actions and his rhetoric, Trump has demonstrated that he lacks the character and competence to lead this nation and has engaged in corrupt behavior that renders him unfit to serve as President.
For the following reasons, we have concluded that Donald Trump has failed our country and that Vice President Joe Biden should be elected the next President of the United States."
...For now, it is imperative that we stop Trump’s assault on our nation’s values and institutions and reinstate the moral foundations of our democracy.
Among the signatories — who served during the Reagan, first and second Bush, and Trump administrations — are former CIA Director Michael Hayden, the former FBI and CIA chief William Webster, former Director of National Intelligence John Negroponte, and former Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel.
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We are profoundly concerned about our nation's security and standing in the world under the leadership of Donald Trump. The President has demonstrated that he is dangerously unfit to serve another term.
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We are former national security officials who served during the administrations of Presidents Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush, and/or Donald Trump, or as Republican Members of Congress. We are profoundly concerned about the course of our nation under the leadership of Donald Trump. Through his actions and his rhetoric, Trump has demonstrated that he lacks the character and competence to lead this nation and has engaged in corrupt behavior that renders him unfit to serve as President.
For the following reasons, we have concluded that Donald Trump has failed our country and that Vice President Joe Biden should be elected the next President of the United States.
While we – like all Americans – had hoped that Donald Trump would govern wisely, he has disappointed millions of voters who put their faith in him and has demonstrated that he is dangerously unfit to serve another term.
In contrast, we believe Joe Biden has the character, experience, and temperament to lead this nation. We believe he will restore the dignity of the presidency, bring Americans together, reassert America’s role as a global leader, and inspire our nation to live up to its ideals.
While some of us hold policy positions that differ from those of Joe Biden and his party, the time to debate those policy differences will come later. For now, it is imperative that we stop Trump’s assault on our nation’s values and institutions and reinstate the moral foundations of our democracy.
To that end, we are firmly convinced that it is in the best interest of our nation that Vice President Joe Biden be elected as the next President of the United States, and we will vote for him.
If you are a national security official who worked for a Republican administration and are supporting Vice President Biden in November, we urge you to join us. Please get in touch at natsec@defendingdemocracytogether.org
All Americans need to hear our stories. President Trump is a unique danger to this country and we cannot risk another four years. Your support gives us the resources to amplify our voices.
Talk about a bunch of swamp creatures! They need to be drained out of it too!
Except the swamp are people like Bannon and their fraud schemes.
Here is another list of prominent Republicans that have come out as .... voting for Biden
Have expressed reluctance or misgivings, but haven’t openly dropped their backing
If our NT Trump supporters would stop long enough to look at these individuals now being to the left of where the current party stands, they just might get an idea of how far from mainstream that the Party of Trump has migrated..... Or not.
Too many people refuse to look at precedent when they are making judgments about Trump. There has never been a time when so many prominent people in the incumbents own party have so publicly belittled him, attacked him, and suggested that the public should vote for the other party in the upcoming election. The only thing comparable would possibly be the election of 1864 when the faction of northerners who wanted to make peace with the Confederacy ran a candidate against Lincoln in the general election. But then the issue was not really Lincoln's fitness for office as it is now with Trump, but rather to try and change the policy of the federal government towards the war.
The Republican Party could have united earlier this year and removed trump from the ticket. There are mountains of evidence that he is not fit to hold office, and never has been. Giving him even a chance for four more years is a national disgrace of epical proportions. But the Republicans were afraid of TRUMP VOTERS in their own states turning against them, which is why it is easy and necessary to say that Trump voters are the worst people in America, they have enabled all of this, and what's worse, continue to.
But the Republicans were afraid of TRUMP VOTERS in their own states turning against them, which is why it is easy and necessary to say that Trump voters are the worst people in America, they have enabled all of this, and what's worse, continue to.
Spot on target.... the party of White Grievance ....
I was reading a recent column by the New York Times writer Maureen Dowd. She says that in 2016 during the campaign she asked Trump why his speeches and rallies were so consistently dark in theme. According to her he replied (paraphrase) "because it is working. Why would I stop if it is working?"
This is SERIOUS! Trump is dismantling our country intentionally for personal gain, and, is the worst security threat to America.
NO ONE SHOULD SUPPORT THIS MONSTER!
I am trying to think of a time when a bunch of Democratic officials got together and wrote a full page letter in the New York Times or Wall St Journal saying that people should elect the Republican candidate instead.
Oh - never happened.
It's too late for Trump and his gang to avoid disgrace now, Trumpsters too.
They have caused the USA to hit bottom.
I doubt it would ever happen. Not much room for independent thought in the hive mind.
Sean, are you planning to vote for Trump? My guess is no, but I suppose I could be wrong.
It is reason above emotional HATE built on a foundation of LIES.
Trump and the GOP (Government of Putin) are the culprits.
I want to know how the EC is leaning. They are the ones who will either free us or screw us like they did last time.
The EC voted almost exactly like it was supposed to, like it has in every single election in your lifetime.
Many people described like that by respected public officials would resign the presidency in disgrace. Since the jackass in office now is propped up by his devoted cult followers, he will never voluntarily step down. We have to force him out through the ballot box.
mocks the disabled
I am betting that he will mock at the RNC that brave 13 year old who stutters who spoke so eloquently at the DNC. If he does and any of his base who have children still support this asshat, shame on all of them.
That was one of the most disgusting things I've seen him do.
On a side note, didn't Sarah Sanders recently mock Joe Biden stuttering?
Is Trump unfit? No more unfit than those who support him and those who prop him up.
In all honesty I sincerely wonder what Melania is planning for the future concerning herself and her son.
This article should be required reading for every voting citizen of the USA, although I know who those who are so ignorant they don't know how to read would vote for notwithstanding.
Ignorance is as ignorance does.
"We won with poorly educated. I love the poorly educated," - DJT
I'm sure you do Donald, I'm sure you do.
Do Democrats not love the poorly educated?
kind of weird, considering their base.
Seriously......? You really didn't think that post through did you....
I'll let the other members beat on you.....
beat on me?
is that what they do to people who ask them uncomfortable questions?
no one is even willing to take a stab at answering.
is it because they don't like the poorly educated, or they just don't want to admit it?
Will someone else please take up the conversation and straighten Tex out here on his 6.1.2...... If I were to do it, it would feel like I was clubbing a baby seal.
its ok if you don't know, just go ahead and admit it.
clubbed many baby seals, have ya?
Classic liberal spin, quoting only part of comment. Only the part that supports one of their fucked up narratives. Here, let me educate you with the ENTIRE comment:
“We won the evangelicals. We won with young. We won with old. We won with highly educated. We won with poorly educated,” before exclaiming “I love the poorly educated!”
Feel free to spin that as well .... I know some here will. They just can’t help themselves. Too much TDS and Trump butt hurt to be honest, accurate and genuine in their comments. WAY too much.
Internet bad asses one and all .... absolute bad asses!
Yeah, they are all really tough behind a keyboard!