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Wed Aug 10, 2016, 03:59 PM Aug 2016

Republican Congressman: "Trump’s An “Unhinged” Demagogue"

BuzzFeed

Last week, Rep. Richard Hanna of New York became the first Republican member of Congress to say he would cast his ballot for Hillary Clinton for president.

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Hanna called Trump’s comments about the parents of a US soldier killed in Iraq in 2004 “shameful” and one of the worst things he’d ever seen. The congressman said Trump didn’t understand basic international affairs and said a vote for a third party candidate instead of Clinton would be throwing his vote away.

“I believe that she can do the job and the Republican Party, who I think damaged itself by pandering so deeply to its extremes, has alienated so many categories of people in this country. You know, young people, women, Hispanics, the LGBT community,” he said.
Hanna went further, calling Trump, unhinged.

“He’s unhinged,” he said. “It’s difficult to imagine why anyone could support him. He comes across as a demagogue. He comes across as a guy who, frankly, Putin has made a fool of. The ways, the reasons not to support him are growing by the day.”
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