“I will not be voting for Donald Trump for president”, Collins wrote in a Washington Post op-ed.
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A group of 50 Republican officials, all of whom have served Republican presidents from Richard Nixon to George W Bush signed an open letter saying that he is “not qualified” to be president and warning that, if elected, “he would be the most reckless President in American history”.
The signatories included former Central Intelligence Agency Director Michael Hayden, former Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, former Director of National Intelligence John Negroponte, and former U.S. trade representatives Carla Hills and Robert Zoelick, as well as former senior State Department, Pentagon and National Security Council officials involved in the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
“Mr. Trump has demonstrated repeatedly that he has little understanding of America’s vital national interests, its complex diplomatic challenges, its indispensable alliances, and the democratic values on which US foreign policy must be based”, the letter says. “At the same time, he persistently compliments our adversaries and threatens our allies and friends”. Another allegation leveled against the billionaire is his ignorance of basic facts of global politics. That’s apparently a reference to a sexually tinged comment Trump made during one of the debates of the GOP primary.
“Mr Trump lacks the character, values, and experience to be president”, they said in a scathing statement. She has also whittled Trump’s lead on handling the USA economy.
The Trump campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Further to the shock and dismay of many in America’s political class, he has even questioned why the nation has bothered to develop nuclear weapons if it has no intention of putting them to use.
Stephen Moore, a conservative economist advising Trump, said the candidate is still working out specifics and hasn’t yet settled on the details of the plan.
An early favorite in the Republican presidential race, Jeb Bush said in May that he wouldn’t vote for Trump.
No matter how much they reduce their income for tax purposes by deducting expenses, they still owe nothing.
“Many people are saying that a unicorn is housed in a cage atop Trump Tower”, he also wrote. But also he said “titties”. And in calling for major investments in infrastructure, like roads and airports, he never explained where the billions of dollars needed would come from. It’s time we put our foot down and declare that their gravy train is over: “no longer will crooked Hillary Clinton and the other disasters in Washington get rich at our expense”, he said. “And one particular economist who looked at his plans, somebody who advised John McCain back in 2008”, she noted. Some change! If enacted, his plan would add trillions of dollars to the debt over the next decade.
Neither Trump nor his campaign released a cost estimate for his plan. It would mean lower taxes, less regulation and more construction projects that they could manage.
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“Economists left, right, in the middle all say the same things, that Trump’s policies would throw us into a recession”, she said. And he alone can’t fix it.
