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08-10-2016, 04:45 AM
WASHINGTON: More Republicans broke ranks on Tuesday with their party’s White House **minee Donald Trump, issuing dire warnings that his recklessness and lack of policy chops would put the United States in danger.
Facing sinking poll numbers and anger in the party over his repeated stumbles and divisive rhetoric, Trump’s campaign has struggled to turn the page from a strong grassroots primary effort to a more mature head-to-head battle with Democrat Hillary Clinton.
On Monday, 50 former senior Republican national security officials warned in an open letter that if Trump were elected, he would be "the most reckless president in American history."
Those tough comments drew a sharp reply from Trump, who painted the group as "**thing more than the failed Washington elite looking to hold onto their power" and saying they should be "held accountable" for making the world less safe.
Influential US Senator Susan Collins then piled on, saying the **minee was "unworthy" of America’s highest elective ****** and would **t receive her support. On Tuesday, the intra-party bleeding continued.
The latest Republicans to jump ship are a pair of former Environmental Protection Agency administrators who blasted Trump for having "shown a profound ig**rance of science" and for dismissing climate change as a hoax.
William Ruckelshaus, who served under presidents Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan, and William Reilly, who worked with George H.W. Bush, said backing away **w from crucial progress on global climate initiatives "would set the world back decades."
"We Republicans should be shocked, outraged even, at the prospect that all this progress, this legacy will be repudiated and rolled back by Donald Trump," they said in a statement released by Clinton’s campaign, which they **w support.
In an op-ed piece for The Washington Post, Collins -- a moderate senator from Maine -- did **t pull punches.
"Donald Trump does **t reflect historical Republican values **r the inclusive approach to governing that is critical to healing the divisions in our country," Collins wrote. "I have become increasingly dismayed by his constant stream of cruel comments and his inability to admit error or apologise," wrote Collins, who portrayed Trump as a candidate "who will slash and burn and trample anything and anyone he perceives as being in his way or an easy scapegoat."
Trump has garnered disdain from a large swath of America’s political, defense and security establishment for his u**rthodox -- some say downright dangerous -- views, such as his professed admiration for Russian President Vladimir Putin and his apparent readiness to scuttle America’s central role in the Nato military alliance.
Trump has also raised concerns over his recent war of words with the parents of a Muslim American soldier killed in a suicide bombing in Iraq. Further to the shock and dismay of many in America’s political class, he has even questioned why the nation has bothered to develop nuclear ******* if it has ** intention of putting them to use. Retired four-star general Barry McCaffrey spoke out against Trump, declaring him unfit for the Oval ****** and saying it was "remarkable how little he k**ws" about national security.
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Facing sinking poll numbers and anger in the party over his repeated stumbles and divisive rhetoric, Trump’s campaign has struggled to turn the page from a strong grassroots primary effort to a more mature head-to-head battle with Democrat Hillary Clinton.
On Monday, 50 former senior Republican national security officials warned in an open letter that if Trump were elected, he would be "the most reckless president in American history."
Those tough comments drew a sharp reply from Trump, who painted the group as "**thing more than the failed Washington elite looking to hold onto their power" and saying they should be "held accountable" for making the world less safe.
Influential US Senator Susan Collins then piled on, saying the **minee was "unworthy" of America’s highest elective ****** and would **t receive her support. On Tuesday, the intra-party bleeding continued.
The latest Republicans to jump ship are a pair of former Environmental Protection Agency administrators who blasted Trump for having "shown a profound ig**rance of science" and for dismissing climate change as a hoax.
William Ruckelshaus, who served under presidents Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan, and William Reilly, who worked with George H.W. Bush, said backing away **w from crucial progress on global climate initiatives "would set the world back decades."
"We Republicans should be shocked, outraged even, at the prospect that all this progress, this legacy will be repudiated and rolled back by Donald Trump," they said in a statement released by Clinton’s campaign, which they **w support.
In an op-ed piece for The Washington Post, Collins -- a moderate senator from Maine -- did **t pull punches.
"Donald Trump does **t reflect historical Republican values **r the inclusive approach to governing that is critical to healing the divisions in our country," Collins wrote. "I have become increasingly dismayed by his constant stream of cruel comments and his inability to admit error or apologise," wrote Collins, who portrayed Trump as a candidate "who will slash and burn and trample anything and anyone he perceives as being in his way or an easy scapegoat."
Trump has garnered disdain from a large swath of America’s political, defense and security establishment for his u**rthodox -- some say downright dangerous -- views, such as his professed admiration for Russian President Vladimir Putin and his apparent readiness to scuttle America’s central role in the Nato military alliance.
Trump has also raised concerns over his recent war of words with the parents of a Muslim American soldier killed in a suicide bombing in Iraq. Further to the shock and dismay of many in America’s political class, he has even questioned why the nation has bothered to develop nuclear ******* if it has ** intention of putting them to use. Retired four-star general Barry McCaffrey spoke out against Trump, declaring him unfit for the Oval ****** and saying it was "remarkable how little he k**ws" about national security.
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