Trump denounced by Republican congressman who served in Iraq

[smirkymonkey]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/aug/03/trump-denounced-republican-congressman-iraq-adam-kinzinger


“I don’t see how I get to Donald Trump any more,” Adam Kinzingersaid in an interview with CNN on Wednesday. “Donald Trump for me is beginning to cross a lot of red lines of the unforgivable in politics.”

“I’m an American before I’m a Republican,” Kinzinger said. “I won’t be silent. He can tweet all he wants. I have to do this for my country and for my party.”

Kinzinger also cited Trump’s professed fondness of Vladimir Putin as disconcerting, saying it was hypocritical for the Republican party to have spent months attacking Hillary Clinton for pursuing a so-called “reset” with Russia as secretary of state, but to then ignore their own nominee’s overtures toward the Kremlin.

“Now you have Vladimir Putin basically pulling out the old KGB playbook on how to manipulate Donald Trump and it appears he’s fallen right into it,” Kinzinger said. Trump has been heavily criticized for a recent interview in which he insisted Putin would not invade Ukraine, two years after the Russian president seized the country’s Crimean peninsula. Trump also signaled he would support the Russian annexation of Crimea, which has not been formally recognized by the United States.

[TheCowsCameHome]

1. Trump will think it's an endorsement.

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[smirkymonkey]

2. I'm just amazed at how many Republicans are coming out against him.

It's unprecedented.

[TheCowsCameHome]

5. Yes. And once the flood gates have been opened,

watch how many more join the movement.

This is really something to behold.

[hamsterjill]

3. I don't generally like Republicans, but I respect this guy for standing up and saying this.

His interview was a good one. He even mentioned that his constituents generally support Trump and that he knows he won't be popular for saying what he did.

[Gabi Hayes]

4. wheaton college, baby. billy graham territory. very conservative

dry from the early thirties til 1985

[KingCharlemagne]

6. He mirrored what President Obama said. To wit, I disagreed with McCain

and Romney and would have been disappointed had either won, but each was fit to serve. Trump is unfit to serve.