Other signatories included former senior State Department, Pentagon and National Security Council officials who helped plan and oversee the 2003 USA invasion of Iraq. Former President George W. Bush and former candidate Jeb Bush have both opposed Trump. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) called on fellow Republicans to “un-endorse” Trump back in June.
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Arkansas Republican Sen. Tom Cotton said on CBS’s “Face the Nation” Sunday that there “were on Hillary Clinton’s private server, there were conversations among her senior advisers about this gentleman”.
“I am also deeply concerned that Mr. Trump’s lack of self-restraint and his barrage of ill-informed comments would make an already perilous world even more so”, she added.
And Trump’s campaign chairman Paul Manafort has said he doesn’t think the Republican nominee will release his returns – saying the documents are “incredibly complicated” and the American people wouldn’t understand them.
While the USA security experts did not say they would vote for Democrat Hillary Clinton – indeed they expressed “doubts” about her – they were clear in stating that “none of us will vote for Donald Trump”.
The speech also is aimed at showing that Trump is a serious candidate in spite of a disastrous stretch that prompted criticism from Republicans and Democrats alike.
Also Monday, a former Central Intelligence Agency official and Republican congressional aide announced plans to run for president as what he calls a conservative alternative to Trump.
The lifelong Republican from ME has penned a scathing review of GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump, questioning his suitability for the Oval Office. “He has alarmed our closest allies with his erratic behaviour”, the letter claimed.
Mr Trump’s provocation came a few hours after the unusually disciplined speech in Detroit on his economic plans for the country, intended in part to reassure Republicans unnerved by his multiple stumbles over the previous week.
Trump asserted that he has offered a better vision for the country and foreign policy – one that is not run by a ruling family dynasty.
During a speech in Detroit, the Republican presidential nominee vowed to dramatically slash taxes and regulations. Collins is more moderate than some of her peers in the Senate, and penned a compromise bill on gun control earlier this year that has failed to gain traction.
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“With the passage of Time I have become increasingly dismayed by his constant stream of cruel comments and his inability to admit errors or apologize”. Particularly alarming is his record of attacking people who lack his power or can not respond because of professional responsibilities, she said, pointing to Trump’s mocking of a reporter with a disability, his comments on a federal judge whose parents immigrated from Mexico, and his criticism of the parents of a fallen Muslim-American soldier.
