Great article in The New York Times this morning — The Dangers of Donald Trump, From Those Who Know Him — shows the quotes of 91 prominent Republicans who tell that Trump is unfit to be President of the United States.
The article, written by the NYT Editorial Board, states: “The strongest case against Trump may come from his own people. For those Americans who are still tempted to return him to the presidency or to not vote in November, it is worth considering the assessment of Mr. Trump by those who have seen him up close.”
Here is a few of the 91 Republicans featured in the NYT article:
- Bill Barr, Attorney General — “He will always put his own interests and gratifying his own ego ahead of everything else, including the country’s interest. There’s no question about it.”
- John Kelly, Chief of Staff — “Trump is a person who admires autocrats and murderous dictators. A person that has nothing but contempt for our democratic institutions, our Constitution and the rule of law.”
- James Mattis, Secretary of Defense — “Donald Trump is the first president in my lifetime who does not try to unite the American people — does not even pretend to try. Instead he tries to divide us.”
- Rex Tillerson, Secretary of State — “There were multiple occasions where, in my view, the actions the president wanted to take were not consistent with our national security objectives. … His understanding of global events, his understanding of global history, his understanding of U.S. history was really limited.”
- Ted Cruz, a Republican senator from Texas — “This man is a pathological liar. He doesn’t know the difference between truth and lies. He lies practically every word that comes out of his mouth, and in a pattern that I think is straight out of a psychology textbook, his response is to accuse everybody else of lying.”
- Dick Cheney, Vice President of the United States from 2001 to 2009 — “In our nation’s 246-year-history, there has never been an individual who is a greater threat to our republic than Donald Trump. He tried to steal the last election using lies and violence to keep himself in power, after the voters had rejected him. He is a coward. A real man wouldn’t lie to his supporters. He lost his election, and he lost big.”
- Lindsey Graham, Republican senator from South Carolina — “He’s a race-baiting, xenophobic, religious bigot. He doesn’t represent my party. He doesn’t represent the values that the men and women who wear the uniform are fighting for.”
- Paul Ryan, Republican Speaker of the House of Representatives from 2015 to 2019 — “Character is too important to me. And it’s a job that requires the kind of character that he just doesn’t have.”
- Liz Cheney, chair of the House Republican conference from 2019 to 2021. — “The president could have immediately and forcefully intervened to stop the violence. He did not. There has never been a greater betrayal by a president of the United States of his office and his oath to the Constitution.”
