Robert Gates Criticizes Trump, So Trump Calls Him
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Posted On: 09/17/2016 11:50:16 PM
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Robert Gates Criticizes Trump, So Trump Calls Him a ‘Total Disaster’
By Hrafnkell Haraldsson on Sat, Sep 17th, 2016 at 7:24 pm
He knows nothing about me. But look at the results under his guidance - a total disaster!
Former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates took to the Wall Street Journal to pen an op-ed in which he criticized both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, but his harshest words were for Trump, of whom he said,
“When it comes to credibility problems, though, Donald Trump is in a league of his own.”
We have seen how Republicans want to set a lower bar for Donald Trump, but according to Gates, “The world we confront is too perilous and too complex to have as president a man who believes he, and he alone, has all the answers and has no need to listen to anyone.” He pointed out that,
“A thin-skinned, temperamental, shoot-from-the-hip and lip, uninformed commander in chief is too great a risk for America.”
Trump’s response? To be that thin-skinned leader Gates had just criticized. Trump tweeted in response:
Donald J. Trump
✔ @realDonaldTrump
I never met former Defense Secretary Robert Gates. He knows nothing about me. But look at the results under his guidance - a total disaster!
Trump is more than willing to criticize people he doesn’t know and has never met, but woe unto any who dare criticize Trump, even if they have met him. He had similar words for New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd, tweeting “Crazy Maureen Dowd, the wacky columnist for the failing @nytimes, pretends she knows me well–wrong!”
Gates is right: Trump is “willfully ignorant about the rest of the world,” writing,
“At least on national security, I believe Mr. Trump is beyond repair. He is stubbornly uninformed about the world and how to lead our country and government, and temperamentally unsuited to lead our men and women in uniform. He is unqualified and unfit to be commander in chief.”
Trump’s ignorance is matched only by his dishonesty, of course, inventing outright encounters in a black church at which reporters were present, inventing out of whole cloth a tale about Donald Trump the hero who single-handedly ended the curse of bitherism when he was its foremost proponent. The list is too long at this point to list in its entirety.
The only ‘total disaster’ here is Donald Trump himself. And he makes that fact more obvious every day.
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