Donald Trump calls Colin Powell ‘an overrated stiff’ for joining other top Republicans George W. Bush and Mitt Romney in refusing to support his re-election bid – before warning fellow ‘stiff, Sleepy Joe’ would ‘defund the police AND military’
Donald Trump bashed Colin Powell Sunday morning as ‘overrated’ and a ‘stiff’
President’s comments came after Powell, a life-long Republican, said that he ‘cannot in any way support President Trump this year’
‘We have a Constitution and we have to follow that Constitution and the President has drifted away from it,’ the former national security adviser said
Powell joins a growing list of Republicans who will not support the president’s reelection and are even considering voting for Democratic nominee Joe Biden
George W. Bush will not vote for Trump in the election, a new report revealed
Jeb Bush and Senator Mitt Romney are also possibly planning to vote for Biden
Slip in public support comes as he also is losing steam with blue-collar non-college educated voters and is still falling 7 per cent behind Biden
Trump said if Biden is elected in 2020, he will defund the police and U.S. military
By KATELYN CARALLE, U.S. POLITICAL REPORTER
DAILYMAIL.COM
7 June 2020
Donald Trump blasted Colin Powell as ‘overrated’ and a ‘stiff’ on Sunday after the former national security adviser and secretary of State said he would not be supporting the president’s reelection in November.
‘Colin Powell, a real stiff who was very responsible for getting us into the disastrous Middle East Wars, just announced he will be voting for another stiff, Sleepy Joe Biden,’ Trump charged in a Sunday morning tweet. ‘Didn’t Powell say that Iraq had ‘weapons of mass destruction?’ They didn’t, but off we went to WAR!’
Earlier in the morning, Powell joined the list of high-profile Republicans, including George W. Bush and Mitt Romney, who are not voting for Donald Trump in 2020 as the president’s own party is turning against him in the midst of nationwide turmoil.
The Reagan-era National Security Advisor told CNN on Sunday morning: ‘I cannot in any way support President Trump this year.’
Powell, who served as George W. Bush’s secretary of State, explained his reasoning had to do with the way the president treats people and has reacted to the coronavirus pandemic race riots.
‘We have a Constitution and we have to follow that Constitution and the President has drifted away from it,’ Powell said regarding the treatment of protesters who took to the streets after George Floyd’s death.
‘I’m very close to Joe Biden in a social matter and on a political matter,’ Powell continued. ‘I have worked with him for 35, 40 years. And he is now the candidate, and I will be voting for him.’
Trump clapped back on Twitter shortly after the interview aired and asserted that electing Biden or any other Democrat would lead to the defunding of police and military in the U.S.
‘Not only will Sleepy Joe Biden DEFUND THE POLICE, but he will DEFUND OUR MILITARY! He has no choice, the Dems are controlled by the Radical Left.’
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