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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums'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 Reagans national security advisory. I was a Republican who worked for George Herbert Walker Bush, and worked for George W. Bush. Im 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 were 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.
dchill
(38,502 posts)One cannot detect the ripple of a pebble in a storm-tossed sea.
hlthe2b
(102,292 posts)I doubt he has much influence, but the more the better, I guess.
rockfordfile
(8,704 posts)justgamma
(3,666 posts)to use a sharpie to try to prove a lie?