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Top GOP national security officials rebuke Trump’s ‘risky’ behavior, worldview

Fifty top Republican national security officials, mainly former aides for President George W. Bush, issued a joint statement on Monday saying they will not vote the Republican presidential nominee, Donald Trump, in the November 8 election.
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August 8, 2016

Fifty top Republican national security officials, mainly former aides for President George W. Bush, issued a joint statement on Monday saying they will not vote the Republican presidential nominee, Donald Trump, in the November 8 election.

“From a foreign policy perspective, Donald Trump is not qualified to be President and Commander-in-Chief,” they wrote in a letter first “>issued during the Republican primary earlier this year.

The current statement underscores the “ongoing frustration of leading Republicans in the national security community,” Dov Zakheim, one of the signatories, told Jewish Insider. According to Zakheim, “Trump has not shown the slightest inclination to follow anybody’s advice except for his immediate family and whoever works for his enterprises.”

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