This series lists sensible Republicans, Trump appointees and veterans of previous Republican presidencies now dissing the Donald. We show their reasons.
Click here for parts one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen, twenty, twenty-one, twenty-two, twenty-three, twenty-four, twenty-five, twenty-six, twenty-seven, twenty-eight, twenty-nine, thirty and thirty-one. This is part thirty-two.
We reach 200 today. WooHoo!
Click on the name for the source of the quote.
193. Colonel Joseph J. Collins, retired Army chief, deputy assistant secretary of defense for stability operations under George W Bush:
“It is impossible to give the Trump national security policy good marks. In its policy toward the four major threats [China, Russia, Iran, North Korea], the administration has not made significant progress. President Trump’s dysfunctional decision-making is not getting better. It is past time to change horses and shift responsibility to a new set of leaders.” [9 September, 2020]
194. Jim Kolbe, former Republican congressman for Arizona:
"I feel very strongly about the breaking of norms that is happening. It isn't just the political environment. We have a social environment — in part because of social media — where we are much more polarized and where civil discourse is poor. Trump certainly contributes to it. He runs his presidency by tweets. You can’t have a serious policy discussion in 140 characters.” [3 March, 2020]
195. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, former Republican congresswoman for Florida:
“I'm a Republican, but I did not vote for Donald Trump. I'm a Jeb Bush Republican. I'm a George W. Bush Republican. Things have changed. My party has changed.” [14 December, 2018]
196. Lewis Phelps, lifelong Republican from Pasadena, California:
“I believe Donald Trump is the most incompetent, corrupt, dishonest person ever to sit in the White House, the worst president in all of American history. We have to throw him out of office in November.” [August, 2020]
197. Reid Ribble, former Republican congressman for Wisconsin:
“The last two weeks have been pretty damaging to President Trump. Clearly there was some kind of trade, some kind of quid pro quo ... I do support impeachment.” [25 November, 2019]
198. Heather A Conley, deputy assistant secretary of state responsible for Northern and Central Europe under George W Bush:
“The decision to withdraw 11,900 forces from Germany ... in fact significantly harms all those stated objectives in both the defense strategy and the national security strategy. This punishes Germany simply because Trump takes issue with the country. This decision ... will harm the United States for years to come.” [4 August, 2020]
199. Steve Connor, 70-year-old disillusioned Republican:
“How did the Republicans in Congress totally abandon their morals and embrace this buffoon? This man doesn’t understand the issues and doesn’t care. He has the objective in mind to say and do whatever personally benefits him.” [August, 2020]
200. Sean O'Keefe, former secretary of the Navy and NASA administrator in the George H W Bush administration:
“Tragically, it appears these Republican principles have been lost. Nothing makes that clearer than the lack of a 2020 Republican platform to frame the ideas Republicans stand behind. Rather, the party has instituted a blind endorsement of President Donald Trump and his ‘America First’ priorities, whatever those may be ... The absence of any principles puts our nation and the world in tremendous danger.” [27 August, 2020]
To be continued ...