Opinion: Pro-defense Republicans should support a primary challenge to Trump
Candles are placed to commemorate victims of Friday's shooting, outside the Al Noor mosque in Christchurch, New Zealand, on March 18. By Jennifer Rubin Jennifer Rubin Opinion writer covering politics and policy, foreign and domestic Email Bio Follow Opinion writer March 18 at 1:30 PM A president refuses to identify the ideological roots of terrorists. He claims that television media or his political opponents exaggerate the threat.
Trump’s reaction to white-nationalist terrorism is part of a pattern in which Trump’s bizarre misconceptions about the world and desire to please a fringe element in his base prevent him from protecting U.S. national security interests. Cheney expressed alarm over news reports that Trump “supposedly doesn’t spend that much time with the intel people, or doesn’t agree with them, frequently,” as well as the high staff turnover rate at the intelligence agencies.
Not even defense spending is secure under Trump. While defense spending has increased under Trump, he’s now stealing from defense to pay for a wall to address an “emergency” his national security experts say doesn’t exist. Kaine made an argument Republicans who fancy themselves as hawks should be propounding:
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