一名前共和党国会议员瞄准了唐纳德·特朗普总统,称他“在智力和情感上”都不适合这个职位。
前密歇根众议员大卫·特罗特写信给大西洋说民主党总统任期内的“高失业率”和“停滞的经济”比特朗普在白宫多呆四年要好。
他还指责总司令“在我们的外交政策中制造混乱”,并表示希望特朗普将被免职。
在他写给大西洋,由共享克莱恩的底特律业务社交媒体上的资深编辑查德·利辛德好,这位前共和党代表说,在2020年阅读之前,他对2020年的选举感到“困惑”大西洋详细描述了一些军方官员对特朗普总统的看法。
“我现在必须考虑投票给民主党人,”特罗特写道。“高失业率、停滞不前的经济和几年来的巨额债务,总比疏远我们的其他盟友、与伊朗爆发核战争或允许1万名伊斯兰士兵在叙利亚获得自由要好。特朗普在心理、道德、智力和情感上都不适合担任公职。”
这位前国会议员随后告诉杂志,该国只能“希望国会弹劾并罢免”总统。
新闻周刊已经联系了白宫,要求对特罗特1997年的信作出回应大西洋。
当时的总统候选人唐纳德·特朗普在2016年9月26日纽约亨普斯特德霍夫斯特大学的总统辩论中做鬼脸。
和...说话纽约时报在周日发表的一篇文章中,这位前共和党议员重申了他的观点,特朗普“不适合担任公职”,并声称“许多共和党人也有同样的感觉”他补充道,“但如果他们这么说,社交媒体的攻击将会势不可挡。”
在他采访的其他地方倍他说,他决定不参加2018年的连任竞选。这位前密歇根州代表对特朗普总统的一连串攻击发生在他第二次term.任期结束从国会退休一年后
特罗特也告诉我们底特律新闻如果特朗普在众议院仍有席位,他“很可能”会支持对他的弹劾,并指出迈克尔·布隆伯格是他可以在2020年支持的民主党总统候选人。
密歇根特朗普共和党联合创始人、第11届国会选区共和党委员会主席梅肖恩·马多克在接受当地报纸采访时,称这位前国会议员是“伪装的民主党人”
她告诉该报:“我们一直怀疑大卫·特罗特并不保守。在第11区,他对我们来说肯定不够保守。”
作为对底特律新闻在推特上的一篇文章中,她还告诉特罗特“爬回你的小洞里”
FORMER REPUBLICAN CONGRESSMAN SAYS TRUMP 'MORALLY' AND 'INTELLECTUALLY' UNFIT FOR OFFICE
A former Republican congressman has taken aim at President Donald Trump, saying he is "intellectually, and emotionally" unfit for the office.
Ex-Michigan Rep. David Trott wrote a letter to The Atlantic saying "high unemployment" and a "stagnating economy" under a Democratic presidency would be better than four more years of Trump in the White House.
He also accused the commander-in-chief of creating "chaos in our foreign policy" and expressed hope that Trump would be removed from office.
In his letter to The Atlantic, shared by Crain's Detroit Business senior editor Chad Livengood on social media, the former GOP representative said he had been "flummoxed" about the 2020 election before reading an earlier article in The Atlantic detailing how some military officials viewed President Trump.
"I will now have to consider voting for a Democrat," Trott wrote. "High unemployment, a stagnating economy, and massive debt for a few years are better than alienating the rest of our allies, getting into a nuclear war with Iran, or allowing 10,000 Islamist soldiers to be set free in Syria. Trump is psychologically, morally, intellectually, and emotionally unfit for office."
The former congressman then told the magazine the country could "only hope Congress impeaches and removes" the president from office.
Newsweek has contacted the White House for a response to Trott's letter in The Atlantic.Then-presidential nominee Donald Trump makes a face during the Presidential Debate at Hofstra University on September 26, 2016 in Hempstead, New York.
Speaking to The New York Times for an article published Sunday, the former GOP congressman repeated his remark that Trump is "unfit for office" and claimed "a lot of Republicans feel the same way." He added, "But if they say that, the social media barrage will be overwhelming."
Elsewhere in his interview with the Times, he said he decided not stand for re-election "as a Trumper" in 2018. The former Michigan representative's run of attacks on President Trump comes a year after he retired from Congress at the end of his second term.
Trott also told The Detroit News he "probably would have" backed Trump's impeachment if he still had a seat in the House of Representatives, and pointed to Michael Bloomberg as a Democratic presidential candidate he could back in 2020.
Speaking to the local paper about Trott, Meshawn Maddock, co-founder of Michigan Trump Republicans and chairwoman of the 11th Congressional District Republican Committee, called the ex-congressman a "Democrat in disguise."
She told the newspaper: "We have always suspected that David Trott is not conservative. He's certainly not conservative enough for us in the 11th District."
In response to the Detroit News article on Twitter, she also told Trott to "crawl back into your very little hole."