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'Stop being stupid!' - Ex-GOP official rips anyone considering a vote for 'idiot' Trump (www.rawstory.com)

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Former GOP official Michael Steele unfurled an epic rant bashing voters who would consider sending "incompetent" Donald Trump back to the White House.

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"He is a fool, an incompetent individual who does not read even the briefings that he still gets as a former president on some of these things, so he'd at least have some workable knowledge of events there," Steele said. "He has to wait to be told what [Russian president Vladimir] Putin tells him to think about this affair because that's where his alliances, his allegiance is. The most galling and assaulting part of this is to minimize the traumatic injuries to our servicemen and women who took the incoming barrage from Iranian missiles and who, as has been reported, have been – were denied their Purple Hearts as a consequence of that because the Pentagon was dancing around how not to offend the president because he didn't think it was that important – these were just headaches, these were minor injuries."

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[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 1 month ago

"He didn't want – here's the galling part, he didn't want that stain on his administration, where something like this happened on his administration, on his watch, that our soldiers were injured in conflict," Steele added. "Now he wants to whitewash it and say, 'Oh, injured? What does injury mean? What does being injured mean?' Well, it means you get a Purple Heart for the services that you provided our country to protect and defend us on foreign soil, to represent our interest, to protect our interest. But that is a foreign concept to this man, and the country needs to wake itself up out of this stupor because this does not get better with him there. He will not solve these problems, he is the progenitor of these problems. He will be the focal point of the expansion of these problems, because they're unimportant to him."

Dude went on for quite a bit.