Rand Paul To Trump: Don’t Let Neocons Run State Department
Candidate for Deputy Secretary of State said Trump was ‘not fit’ to be President
Steve Watson
Prison Planet.com
February 7, 2017
Senator Rand Paul has urged President Trump to shut out neoconservative war hawks from the State Department, as it has emerged that Elliott Abrams, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, could be appointed to serve in the number two spot.
“Elliott Abrams is a neoconservative too long in the tooth to change his spots, and the president should have no reason to trust that he would carry out a Trump agenda rather than a neocon agenda,” Paul writes in an opinion piece for the libertarian website Rare.
Abrams was intimately tied in with the Iran-Contra affair in the 1980s, and was even convicted of withholding information from Congress about covert government activities in Nicaragua and El Salvador. He was later pardoned by President George H. W. Bush.
“Congress has good reason not to trust him — he was convicted of lying to Congress in his previous job,” Paul notes in his piece.
Abrams is also believed to have been involved in approving the attempted Venezuelan coup against Hugo Chávez in 2002 while serving as Special Assistant to the President and holding office in the National Security Council.
Senator Paul urges Trump not to appoint Abrams, adding that his “neocon agenda trumps his fidelity to the rule of law.”
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