GOP officials warn Donald Trump would put nation’s security at risk.
AB Wire
Even the smallest prospect of Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump becoming the next President of the United States has irked the top brass of Republican US security officials who believe the businessman-turned-politician would be the most “reckless” president in American history.
A statement released by fifty Republican national security officials including a former CIA director, has expressed resentment over Trump becoming the next US President as they think his tenure will go into the history books as one of the most reckless four years.
Their contempt for Trump is evident in the words spoken by veteran Republican national security specialists.
The statement released by the officials read, “Mr. Trump lacks the character, values, and experience to be president. He weakens US moral authority as the leader of the free world. He appears to lack basic knowledge about and belief in the US Constitution, US laws and US institutions, including religious tolerance, freedom of the press, and an independent judiciary.”
The statement does not clarify whether the officials will vote for the Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton, but they unequivocally denounce voting for Donald Trump, who according to them “is not qualified to be president and commander in chief.”
“Indeed, we are convinced that he would be a dangerous president and would put at risk our country’s national security and well-being,” the statement added.
The signatories of the statement include former Central Intelligence Agency Director Michael Hayden, who also headed the National Security Agency; former Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff; former Director of National Intelligence John Negroponte; and two former U.S. trade representatives, Carla Hills and Robert Zoellick, some of whom worked with more than one Republican president.
A few other names that featured in the list of signatories are those from the State Department, Pentagon and National Security Council who played key roles in planning and implementation of the Iraq Invasion of 2003, which has been sharply criticized by Trump all through his campaign.
Philips Zelikow, the top advisor to the former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice organized the statement.
Trump reacted to the statement ridiculing the signatories as the members of “the failed Washington elite” who “deserve the blame for making the world such a dangerous place.”
“These insiders – along with Hillary Clinton – are the owners of the disastrous decisions to invade Iraq, allow Americans to die in Benghazi, and they are the ones who allowed the rise of ISIS,” he continued, using an acronym for the ISIS group.
The letter is seen by a few section of the media as the validating proof of growing fissures within the Republican Party over the candidacy of Donald Trump. A few members of the party are doing everything possible to stop Trump from taking the Oval office.