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Ilsa

(61,695 posts)
Tue Sep 6, 2016, 06:02 PM Sep 2016

MTP Daily had this

"Old fossil", as Han Solo would call him, a retired Army Major General on endorsing Trump. Followed up with Danzig, Former Sec. Of the Navy, who has endorsed Clinton. His comments included the policy shifts of GWBush and how that hasn't worked, and said that while Trump's kids might be intelligent people, we don't need amateurs and freelancers running foreign policy, we need professionals like HRC. He said the retired military people who have endorsed trump aren't advising him. He hasn't asked them to.

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MTP Daily had this (Original Post) Ilsa Sep 2016 OP
Why would any ex-general endorse Trump? Bucky Sep 2016 #1
It was almost as if the general was saying Ilsa Sep 2016 #2

Bucky

(54,005 posts)
1. Why would any ex-general endorse Trump?
Tue Sep 6, 2016, 08:04 PM
Sep 2016

Trump's anti-NATO, pro-nuke, anti-vet, pro-Putin, pro-Saddam, climate-denying, and isolationist. Just about everything the military has been working for since 1945, Trump stands foursquare against.

Ilsa

(61,695 posts)
2. It was almost as if the general was saying
Tue Sep 6, 2016, 09:28 PM
Sep 2016

You could go either way, but he called it "a judgment call."

I can't imagine the ugliness within the extremist ex military people that he got to sign his endorsement letter.

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