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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,026 posts)
Mon Oct 7, 2019, 01:08 PM Oct 2019

'Get a grip': Colin Powell scolds Republicans for enabling Trump

Former Secretary of State Colin Powell unleashed on the Republican Party and White House officials for enabling President Trump and allowing United States foreign policy to devolve into "shambles."

Speaking with CNN's Fareed Zakaria on Sunday, the retire four-star general explained that he considers himself a Republican but has seen "things happening that are hard to understand" in the current Republican administration.

"I was a Republican who was Ronald Reagan’s national security advisory. I was a Republican who worked for George Herbert Walker Bush, and worked for George W. Bush. I’m a moderate Republican who believes that we should have strong foreign policy, strong defense policy, that we have to look out for our people, and we ought to work hard to making sure we’re one country and one team,” he said. “And so, on that basis, I call myself a Republican.”

He then laid into Republicans currently serving in office for failing to speak out against the president's controversial actions.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/get-a-grip-colin-powell-scolds-republicans-for-enabling-trump/ar-AAInWaU?li=BBnbfcL

I don't think the GOP has forgiven Powell for endorsing Obama.

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'Get a grip': Colin Powell scolds Republicans for enabling Trump (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Oct 2019 OP
He "scolds" them. So they're "abashed," right? dchill Oct 2019 #1
Never can forget his excusing My Lai and promoting WMD, but I won't discount his speaking out now... hlthe2b Oct 2019 #2
This is the same person that lied us into Iraq rockfordfile Oct 2019 #3
Was he the first Con justgamma Jan 2020 #4

dchill

(38,502 posts)
1. He "scolds" them. So they're "abashed," right?
Mon Oct 7, 2019, 01:19 PM
Oct 2019

One cannot detect the ripple of a pebble in a storm-tossed sea.

hlthe2b

(102,292 posts)
2. Never can forget his excusing My Lai and promoting WMD, but I won't discount his speaking out now...
Mon Oct 7, 2019, 01:34 PM
Oct 2019

I doubt he has much influence, but the more the better, I guess.

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