“Donald Trump ‘comforted our enemies’ and Congressman Coffman has comforted Donald Trump,” said DCCC Spokesman Tyler Law. “How can we take someone seriously who can’t stand up to Trump’s dangerous candidacy?”
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Former ambassadors back Clinton in letter saying Trump ‘comforted our enemies’
Yahoo News
https://www.yahoo.com/news/ambassadors-clinton-letter-trump-141636303.html
Seventy five former ambassadors, including 57 appointed by Republican presidents, released a letter Thursday endorsing Hillary Clinton and criticizing Donald Trump as “entirely unqualified” for the office.
“As career officers, we have served every President since Harry Truman, and have proudly represented every President since Richard Nixon as ambassadors or senior State Department officials in Senate-confirmed positions,” the letter obtained by Yahoo News reads. “We have served Republican and Democratic Presidents with pride and enthusiasm.”
But the diplomats said this election is different, with one candidate “unqualified” to serve in part because his rhetoric has “comforted our enemies.” They highlighted Trump’s praise and “admiration” for Russian President Vladimir Putin, as well as the mogul’s recent remark that U.S. generals have been “reduced to rubble” under President Obama.
One of the career diplomats who signed the letter, Ryan Crocker, was picked by George W. Bush to be his ambassador to Pakistan and then Iraq. Another of the group, Daniel Kurtzer, was Bush’s pick for ambassador to Israel.
“He is ignorant of the complex nature of the challenges facing our country, from Russia to China to ISIS to nuclear proliferation to refugees to drugs, but he has expressed no interest in being educated,” they wrote. “In his frequent statements about foreign countries and their citizens, from our closest friends to our most problematic competitors, Mr. Trump has expressed the most ignorant stereotypes of those countries; has inflamed their people; and has insulted our allies and comforted our enemies.”
The letter comes a day after 15 retired generals and admirals released a video endorsing Clinton, part of a broader push by the Clinton campaign to make inroads among conservative voters turned off by Trump. The former secretary of state has been endorsed by 110 retired military officials, while Trump has been endorsed by 120. Clinton has also picked up public endorsements from dozens of former Republican politicians and national security experts, while privately, former President George H.W. Bush is reportedly voting for her.
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