Rand Paul: I oppose both Rudy Giuliani and John Bolton for secretary of state
Source: Guardian
The Kentucky senator said the former UN ambassador was ‘out of touch’ and also expressed concerns about Giuliani as attorney general in Guardian interview
Ben Jacobs and Spencer Ackerman
Tuesday 15 November 2016 14.56 EST
Senator Rand Paul reiterated his opposition to both former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani and former UN ambassador John Bolton as secretary of state in an interview with the Guardian on Tuesday.
The interview follows an op-ed in Rare, an online conservative publication, where Paul condemned Bolton as “out of touch”.
The Kentucky senator grounded his opposition in the importance that Donald Trump “pick people who agree with his foreign policy”. Trump repeatedly argued on the campaign trail that the Iraq war was a mistake and condemned what he saw as an overly interventionist foreign policy from Democratic rival Hillary Clinton. As Paul phrased it, Trump was “standing up not just to Woodrow Wilson” but also “a whole line of neocons in both parties”, and the senator believed such policies were “a big part” of Trump’s campaign.
Paul, who serves on the Senate foreign relations committee, insisted “there is no way I could vote for someone who is an unrepentant supporter of the Iraq war and regime change. I think that is a disaster for the country. It has made us less safe and so categorically I can’t support anybody that supports regime change.”
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/nov/15/rand-paul-rudy-giuliani-john-bolton-secretary-of-state-trump
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