WASHINGTON: Amid polls exhibiting Donald Trump and Kamala Harris tied within the 2024 Presidential race, prime US public figures together with retired army generals proceed to warn American voters about risks the previous president poses to US nationwide safety and democracy.
Whereas a lot of them, together with outstanding Republicans, are endorsing Kamala Harris regardless of their lengthy affiliation with the GOP, some, notably former President George Bush, have stated they won’t assist anybody within the coming election, inviting taunts from never-Trumpers to “man-up” and be like his mom.The matriarch Barbara Bush was brazenly contemptuous of Trump and puzzled how anybody may vote for him.
In truth, whereas Harris has the assist of all residing former Democratic presidents and vice-presidents, Trump has the assist of just one Republican — Sarah Palin — along with his personal vice-president Mike Pence, disdaining him. On Monday, the Harris marketing campaign dropped a scorching advert during which a number of Trump administration officers, together with Pence, unloaded on their former boss, saying he was unfit for workplace.
The advert, titled “The Finest Folks,” compiles footage of a few of them senior-most officers who served underneath Trump — together with Pence, former protection secretary Mark Esper, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Employees Mark Milley, and former NSA John Bolton — calling him narcissistic, untrustworthy, and unfit for workplace.
“In 2016, Donald Trump stated he would select solely the perfect individuals to work in his White Home. Now these individuals have a warning for America: Trump will not be match to be president once more,” a voiceover says.
The advert additionally incorporates a phase exhibiting Milley saying, “We don’t take an oath to a king or a queen or a tyrant or a dictator. And we don’t take an oath to a wannabe dictator” — a smackdown from a revered common, amongst a number of who’ve incurred Trump’s wrath. He describes a lot of them, together with three who served him within the White Home, as “woke television generals” going as far as to name them “silly.”
Such rants in opposition to the generals, despite the fact that he professes to have the assist of army households as a result of he rebuilt the army and made America sturdy, have upset many army leaders and cut up the establishment. On Monday, a bunch of 10 retired army generals endorsed Harris, saying she is the one presidential candidate match to function the nation’s commander in chief and calling Trump “a hazard to our nationwide safety.”
The letter cited Trump’s feedback disparaging members of the army and his personal “chaotic method” to Afghanistan forward of the U.S. withdrawal, together with negotiating a take care of the Taliban that allowed 5,000 of the group’s fighters to return to the battlefield. Trump blames Biden and Harris for the fiasco despite the fact that most discerning analysts say he (Trump) first threw the Afghan authorities and US troops underneath the bus.
In distinction to Trump’s actions, the generals wrote, Harris “has demonstrated her potential to tackle probably the most troublesome nationwide safety challenges within the Scenario Room and on the worldwide stage,” from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine to tensions with China within the Indo-Pacific. “Harris is the perfect — and solely — presidential candidate on this race who’s match to function our commander in chief,” they wrote within the letter posted on X by Harris’ marketing campaign.
Whereas a lot of them, together with outstanding Republicans, are endorsing Kamala Harris regardless of their lengthy affiliation with the GOP, some, notably former President George Bush, have stated they won’t assist anybody within the coming election, inviting taunts from never-Trumpers to “man-up” and be like his mom.The matriarch Barbara Bush was brazenly contemptuous of Trump and puzzled how anybody may vote for him.
In truth, whereas Harris has the assist of all residing former Democratic presidents and vice-presidents, Trump has the assist of just one Republican — Sarah Palin — along with his personal vice-president Mike Pence, disdaining him. On Monday, the Harris marketing campaign dropped a scorching advert during which a number of Trump administration officers, together with Pence, unloaded on their former boss, saying he was unfit for workplace.
The advert, titled “The Finest Folks,” compiles footage of a few of them senior-most officers who served underneath Trump — together with Pence, former protection secretary Mark Esper, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Employees Mark Milley, and former NSA John Bolton — calling him narcissistic, untrustworthy, and unfit for workplace.
“In 2016, Donald Trump stated he would select solely the perfect individuals to work in his White Home. Now these individuals have a warning for America: Trump will not be match to be president once more,” a voiceover says.
The advert additionally incorporates a phase exhibiting Milley saying, “We don’t take an oath to a king or a queen or a tyrant or a dictator. And we don’t take an oath to a wannabe dictator” — a smackdown from a revered common, amongst a number of who’ve incurred Trump’s wrath. He describes a lot of them, together with three who served him within the White Home, as “woke television generals” going as far as to name them “silly.”
Such rants in opposition to the generals, despite the fact that he professes to have the assist of army households as a result of he rebuilt the army and made America sturdy, have upset many army leaders and cut up the establishment. On Monday, a bunch of 10 retired army generals endorsed Harris, saying she is the one presidential candidate match to function the nation’s commander in chief and calling Trump “a hazard to our nationwide safety.”
The letter cited Trump’s feedback disparaging members of the army and his personal “chaotic method” to Afghanistan forward of the U.S. withdrawal, together with negotiating a take care of the Taliban that allowed 5,000 of the group’s fighters to return to the battlefield. Trump blames Biden and Harris for the fiasco despite the fact that most discerning analysts say he (Trump) first threw the Afghan authorities and US troops underneath the bus.
In distinction to Trump’s actions, the generals wrote, Harris “has demonstrated her potential to tackle probably the most troublesome nationwide safety challenges within the Scenario Room and on the worldwide stage,” from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine to tensions with China within the Indo-Pacific. “Harris is the perfect — and solely — presidential candidate on this race who’s match to function our commander in chief,” they wrote within the letter posted on X by Harris’ marketing campaign.
