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“I was pretty good with the body language,” Trump said.
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50 top GOP
officials: Trump would
'risk our country's national security'
By TYLER PAGER
and ZACH MONTELLARO 08/08/16 04:03 PM EDT Updated 08/08/16 06:56 PM EDT
Donald Trump's
effort to appeal to establishment Republicans suffered another setback on
Monday as 50 senior GOP national security officials warned in a new letter that
Trump would "risk our country’s national security and well-being.”
The signatories
of the letter, which was first reported by The New York Times, all worked in
Republican administrations, with many serving as top aides to President George
W. Bush. They said none of them would be voting for Trump.
“Trump lacks the
character, values, and experience to be President,” they wrote. “He weakens
U.S. moral authority as the leader of the free world. He appears to lack basic
knowledge about and belief in the U.S. Constitution, U.S. laws, and U.S.
institutions, including religious tolerance, freedom of the press, and an
independent judiciary.”
The letter
signers include Michael Hayden, the former director of the CIA and the National
Security Agency, two former secretaries of homeland security, and John
Negroponte, who served as director of national intelligence and deputy
secretary of state. None of the living Republican former secretaries of state
signed the letter.
Trump responded
to the letter in a statement issued by his campaign, blaming the signees for
the Iraq War and accusing them of profiting off their positions.
"The names
on this letter are the ones American people should look to for answers on why
the world is a mess," Trump said in the statement. "These insiders —
along with Hillary Clinton — are the owners of the disastrous decisions to
invade Iraq, allow Americans to die in Benghazi, and they are the ones who
allowed the rise of ISIS."
Although the
signatories said they would not be voting for Trump, they did express concerns
about Hillary Clinton as well.
“We also know
that many have doubts about Hillary Clinton, as do many of us,” they wrote. “But
Donald Trump is not the answer to America’s daunting challenges and to this
crucial election. We are convinced that in the Oval Office, he would be the
most reckless President in American history.”
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