Retired Marine Corps General and former Secretary of Defense
James Mattis has denounced Trump, calling him “a threat to our Constitution,”
and recently wrote: “Donald Trump is the first president in my lifetime who
does not try to unite the American people—does not even pretend to try.
Instead, he tries to divide us.”
Retired Marine Corps General and former White House Chief of
Staff John Kelly agreed with General Mattis, and has called Trump the “most
flawed person” he’s ever met in his life, adding: "The depths of his
dishonesty is just astounding to me. The dishonesty, the transactional nature
of every relationship, though it's more pathetic than anything else . . I think
we really need to step back. I think we need to look harder at who we elect.
What is their character like? What are their ethics? Are they willing, if
they're elected, to represent all of their constituents, not just the base, but
all of their constituents?”
A group of 489 generals, admirals, senior noncommissioned
officers, ambassadors, and senior civilian national security leaders recently
signed on to a letter endorsing Joe Biden. The letter reads, in part:
“The current president has demonstrated he is not equal to
the enormous responsibilities of his office; he cannot rise to meet challenges
large or small. Thanks to his disdainful attitude and his failures, our allies
no longer trust or respect us, and our enemies no longer fear us.”
Former Chairman of the National Republican Committee Michael
Steele has assailed Trump, saying that Trump does not represent Republican
values, and says he’s voting for Joe Biden, who he calls “a good man.”
“This ballot is like none ever cast,” Steele says. “I’m a
lifelong Republican and I’m still a Republican, but this ballot is how we
restore the soul of our nation.”
To those still supporting Trump he says: “So, all y’all want
to play this little game that Donald Trump is like you, you’re stupid. You’re
being played. You’re getting punked. But what’s so bad about it is you’re
complicit in your own punking.”
Republican Senator Ben Sasse recently criticized Trump for
“the way he kisses dictators' butts. I mean, the way he ignores that the
Uyghurs are in literal concentration camps in Xinjiang right now. He hasn't
lifted a finger on behalf of the Hong Kongers. The United States now regularly
sells out our allies under his leadership. The way he treats women and spends
like a drunken sailor. The ways I criticized President Obama for that kind of
spending, I've criticized President Trump for as well. He mocks evangelicals
behind closed doors. His family has treated the presidency like a business
opportunity. He's flirted with white supremacists."
Sasse also slammed Trump's response coronavirus — which has
sickened more than 7.9 million Americans and killed more than 217,000 — saying
that Trump’s leadership has not been "reasonable or responsible."
"The reality is that he careened from curb to curb,”
Sasse says. “First, he ignored COVID. And then he went into full economic
shutdown mode. He was the one who said 10 to 14 days of shutdown would fix
this, and that was always wrong. So, I don't think the way he's led through
COVID has been reasonable or responsible or right."
Other prominent republicans who oppose Trump: Former
Secretary of State Colin Powell; former Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel;
former Secretary of Defense William Cohen; former Special Assistant to the
President Peggy Noonan; former Secretary of Homeland Security Tom Ridge; former
EPA Director Christine Todd Whitman . . .
The list goes on, and on.
More than 70 former senior Republican national security
officials and 60 additional senior officials have signed on to a statement
declaring, "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."
A group of former senior U.S. government officials and
conservatives—including from the Reagan, Bush 41, Bush 43, and Trump
administrations have formed The Republican Political Alliance for Integrity and
Reform (REPAIR) to, "focus on a return to principles-based governing in
the post-Trump era."
A third group of Republicans, Republican Voters Against Trump
was launched in May 2020 and has collected more than 500 testimonials from
Republicans opposing Donald Trump.
They’re all pointing out what is painfully obvious. It’s time
to get rid of Donald Trump and start healing our nation.
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