Robert Gates: Trump 'beyond repair'

[pinboy3niner]

By Eugene Scott, CNN
Updated 2:53 PM ET, Sat September 17, 2016


Washington (CNN) — Robert Gates criticized both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump on their preparedness to handle US foreign policy -- but the former defense secretary reserved his harshest language for the Republican nominee, who he said is "beyond repair."

"When it comes to credibility problems, though, Donald Trump is in a league of his own," Gates, a Republican who led the Defense Department under Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama, wrote in a Wall Street Journal op-ed Friday, adding that electing Trump is "too great a risk for America."

"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," Gates wrote. "A thin-skinned, temperamental, shoot-from-the-hip and lip, uninformed commander in chief is too great a risk for America."

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http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/17/politics/robert-gates-donald-trump-hillary-clinton/

[pinboy3niner]

1. .

[DURHAM D]

2. So Gates does not like Hillary's

"No combat troops in Iraq and Syria" position.

Tough shit.

[sarcasmo]

3. Gates caused Trump to flip out on Twitter.

[Gothmog]

4. The fact that Gates got under Trump's thin skin is amusing

[oasis]

5. Trump has been a swindler throughout his entire life. His presidential

campaign has gone a long way in the revelation of his past underhanded dealings.