This is where you can find juicy quotes from all the famous Republicans or Trump associates who have now dumped the Donald. The postal service won’t deliver it to you.
Click here for parts one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven and twelve. This is part thirteen. Unlucky. Click the name for the source of the quote.
62. Miles Taylor, former chief of staff for Trump’s Department of Homeland Security:
“We would go in to try to talk to him [Trump] about a pressing national security issue: cyber attack, terrorism threat. He wasn’t interested in those things. To him, they weren’t priorities. The president wanted to exploit the Department of Homeland Security for his own political purposes ... I came away completely convinced that the president was ill-equipped and wouldn’t become equipped to do his job effectively. And what’s worse, was actively doing damage to our security.” [18 August 2020]
63. Peter Weigand, Californian businessman, lifelong Republican:
"Not only has Donald Trump been a complete disaster on pretty much everything he has tried to implement, he has done the complete opposite of make America great again. We are the laughing stock around the world. For my job, I travel globally. Now I have to apologize for Trump and what America has become.” [17 July 2020]
64. Carly Fiorina, 2016 Republican presidential candidate:
“I’ve been very clear that I can’t support Donald Trump. And, you know, elections are binary choices … I think this moment calls upon Joe Biden to be a leader. I am encouraged that Joe Biden is a person of humility and empathy and character. I think he’s demonstrated that through his life.” [25 June 2020]
65. Peter D. Keisler, acting attorney general under George W Bush:
“The president has attacked the Justice Department for indictments of Republican congressmen on the stated ground that prosecutions would hurt Republican chances in the midterm elections, and he’s urged that the Justice Department investigate his political opponents. That’s a fundamentally wrong and very dangerous view of the criminal justice system, and people from both parties and across the political spectrum should condemn it.” [14 November 2018]
66. Jennifer Millikin, worker with George W Bush’s 2004 campaign and later in the General Services Administration:
“We know what is normal and what is abnormal, and what we are seeing is highly abnormal. The president is a danger.” [1 July 2020]
67. Chuck Hagel, former Republican senator from Nebraska:
"Donald Trump is doing great damage to our country internationally. He's an embarrassment ... He is intentionally dividing the country and the world." [15 January 2018]
68. Wade Miller, longtime Republican in Texas:
“I have always been a mostly straight-ticket voter ... But we’re talking about human lives here, and if people [Trump administration] aren’t willing to do what it takes to save lives, what else aren’t they willing to do? I will definitely be changing my vote come November.” [1 August 2020]
And from the archives:
69. Norm Coleman, former Republican senator for Minnesota
“I won't vote for Donald Trump because of who he isn't. He isn't a Republican. He isn't a conservative. He isn't a truth teller. He's not a uniter ... I also won't vote for Donald Trump because of who he is. A bigot. A misogynist. A fraud. A bully.” [3 March 2016]
To be continued ...
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