Kamala Harris continues to garner support from establishment figures with ties to the military-industrial complex and the national security state.
On Sunday, hundreds of former government officials who served in the George W. Bush, Clinton, George H. W. Bush, Obama and Biden administrations signed a letter of support for Harris, along with a handful of nominal Republicans.
Their
letterThe bill, introduced by the advocacy group National Security Leaders for America, contains the kind of rhetoric that led to two assassination attempts on President Donald Trump and has seen polls suggest three in 10 Democrats would like to see him killed.
“This election is a choice between serious leadership and vengeful impulsivity. A choice between democracy and authoritarianism,” it reads.
The letter states that for private contractors,
make a profit “We are trained to make calm, rational decisions, which is why I know Vice President Harris will be an excellent commander in chief. Mr. Trump, on the other hand, has proven himself unfit for the job,” said Harris, who served as vice president during the Iraq War.
The letter also said Harris has “demonstrated herself as an effective leader capable of advancing America's national security interests” and asserted that she is “prepared and strategic.”
“You need a president who won't get you into a war.”
The signatories were apparently content to ignore Harris’ involvement in the current Democratic administration’s deadly withdrawal from Afghanistan, her apparent abandonment of Americans in Haiti during that country’s recent collapse, her failure as a border control officer to stop the influx of tens of millions of illegal immigrants, and the obvious fact that it was during the Biden-Harris and Obama administrations, not the Trump administration, that Russia invaded Ukraine.
It's clear that former national security and military officials think of Trump:
First President A president who has pledged not to start a new war or military conflict while in office, like no other president since Richard Nixon, would be expected to make good on his promise of peace and relative non-interventionism.
Ultimately, their letter laments the Republican decision to pull out.
He called Another 'endless war' in Syria, criticism of allies comes as Trump sharply criticises request It demands that NATO allies meet their spending obligations and “cede influence in the Middle East to Russia, Iran and China.”
“We need a president who won't get you into a war. If I'm elected, there won't be World War III, but with these clowns we have now, there will be World War III,” Trump said during a town hall interview with Sean Hannity in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, earlier this month.
“As America's sons and daughters die, they get rich.”
Among the signatories of this letter were party ambassadors and
- John Kerry, former President Biden's special envoy for climate change
- Susan Rice, former domestic policy adviser to Biden and former national security adviser to Obama
- Clinton adviser Nancy Soderbergh
- Ben Rhodes, speechwriter and national security adviser to President Obama
- Obama adviser Caroline Atkinson
- Clinton's National Security Advisor Anthony Lake
- Obama's Secretary of Homeland Security, Janet Ann Napolitano, Fueling Concerns On Iraq and Afghanistan veterans returning from war and becoming right-wing extremists
- Brigadier General John Wade Douglas, Democratic candidate for Congress and former CEO of Douglas Aerospace Group.
Trump campaign spokesman Stephen Chang said Axios said in a statement that the signatories of the letter “are the same people who have profited from embroiling our country in endless foreign wars while the American people suffer.”
This latest endorsement from the establishment comes just weeks after former January 6th Committee member Liz Cheney endorsed Harris “because of the danger posed by Donald Trump.”
Cheney said:
was overwhelmingly rejected by Republican voters in Wyoming in 2022 Previous He called Harris a “radical liberal who wants to raise taxes, take away guns and health insurance, explode the size of the federal government and control every aspect of our lives.”
Senator J.D. Vance (R-Ohio) said of Cheney's endorsement, “Kamala Harris and Liz Cheney are very interesting partners. They will both be rich when America's sons and daughters die. They will both be rich when America loses its wars instead of winning them. And they will both be rich when America is weaker in the world.”
In August, many Republican staffers who worked under President George W. Bush, the late Sen. John McCain of Arizona and defeated Sen. Mitt Romney of Utah endorsed Harris, arguing that four more years of Trump would “hurt real people and undermine sacred institutions.”
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