50 G.O.P. Officials Warn Donald Trump Would Put Nation’s Security ‘at Risk’
I know it's been said before but it bears repeating.
Fifty of the nations most senior Republican national security officials, many of them former top aides or cabinet members for President George W. Bush, have signed a letter declaring that Donald J. Trump lacks the character, values and experience to be president and would put at risk our countrys national security and well-being.
Mr. Trump, the officials warn, would be the most reckless president in American history.
The letter says Mr. Trump would weaken the United States moral authority and questions his knowledge of and belief in the Constitution. It says he has demonstrated repeatedly that he has little understanding of the nations vital national interests, its complex diplomatic challenges, its indispensable alliances and the democratic values on which American policy should be based. And it laments that Mr. Trump has shown no interest in educating himself.
None of us will vote for Donald Trump, the letter states, though it notes later that many Americans have doubts about Hillary Clinton, as do many of us.
While foreign policy elites in both parties often argue among themselves behind closed doors, or politely in the pages of Foreign Affairs magazine it is extraordinarily rare for them to step into the political arena so publicly and aggressively. Several former midlevel officials issued a similar if milder letter in March, during the primaries. But Mondays letter included many senior former officials who until now have remained silent in public, even while denouncing Mr. Trumps policies over dinners or in small Republican conclaves.
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