Donald Trump may not have many friends in D.C., but that isn’t stopping the American voters from trying to land him a job there anyway. Unsurprisingly, D.C.’s elite are not pleased, and now the foreign policy hawks on the hill are joining the party establishment to try to stop Trump.
In interviews with POLITICO, leading GOP foreign-policy hands — many of whom promoted the Iraq War, detest Putin and consider Israel’s security non-negotiable — said Trump would be a disaster for U.S. foreign policy and vowed never to support him. So deep is their revulsion that several even say they could vote for Hillary Clinton over Trump in November.
“Hillary is the lesser evil, by a large margin,” said Eliot Cohen, a former top State Department official under George W. Bush and a strategic theorist who argues for a muscular U.S. role abroad. Trump’s election would be “an unmitigated disaster for American foreign policy,” Cohen said, adding that “he has already damaged it considerably.”
Cohen, an Iraq war backer who is often called a neoconservative but said he does not identify himself that way, said he would “strongly prefer a third party candidate” to Trump, but added: “Probably if absolutely no alternative: Hillary.”
In a March 1 interview with Vox, Max Boot, a military historian at the Council on Foreign Relations who backed the Iraq War and often advocates a hawkish foreign policy, said that he, too, would vote for Clinton over Trump. “I’m literally losing sleep over Donald Trump,” he said. “She would be vastly preferable to Trump.”
These people are clearly so blinded by their hatred of Trump that they’re willing to support the Secretary of State who lied to the families of terror victims and negotiated a deal with a nuclear-hungry Iran.
Trump may not be their cup of tea — he’s not everyone’s, but their support of Hillary is inexcusable.
Source: Politico
I guess mitch is boiling about trump abount winning KY , I can see McConnell now thinking and idea to ban trump from the convention he should have not been elected years ago that’s mitch what an idiot he is, i’m not a trump fan ,but he not has any ties to Washington like the rest of them he speeks his own mine
I’m sure they will, their all one the same anyway, they prove that every time push comes to shove, they’re not caving in, they’re one in the same, elitist’s are all the same they just wear different campaign buttons on their shirts. Going to ruin the GOP? IT’S ALREADY DESTROYED.