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More than 200 retired, high-ranking military officers on Monday released an open letter endorsing former President Donald Trump for a second term, hewing largely to promises by the Republican to return American and the global order to a safer, more peaceful era.<\/p>\n
In a copy of the letter obtained by The Federalist, the consortium of retired admirals and generals calls this cycle the \u201cmost important election since our Nation was founded,\u201d seeking to blunt the impact of a slate of military endorsements released last week by the campaign of Vice President Kamala Harris. Dubbing themselves Flag Officers 4 America, the officers open the letter, \u201cThe undersigned retired Generals and Admirals are endorsing Donald J. Trump for president in 2024 because he is a proven leader who will secure our border, repulse our adversaries, revitalize our economy and keep America safe and strong.\u201d<\/p>\n
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\n\u201cToday our Nation has never been more divided as the cultural war, supported by the Democratic party, divides our citizens into conflicting groups,\u201d it goes on. \u201cRecent evidence is the widespread riots on university campuses with students and faculty supporting terrorist organizations, Hamas and Hezbollah, blatantly flying their flags on American soil and burning our U.S. national flag.\u201d Signers include Maj. General Patrick H. Brady, Maj. General James E. Livingston, and Vice Admiral Howard B. Thorsen who frame the election as a choice between recommitting the country to its \u201cunderlying traditional values which have made America great\u201d or continuing toward \u201cthe deadly abyss of socialism and authoritarian cultural marxism.\u201d<\/p>\n
Some of the most pressing national security threats of a generation, including the release of up to 600,000 migrants with violent pasts and the domestic surveillance activities of up to 100,000 Chinese assets, should prompt calls for alarm, the letter states. \u201c[U]nvetted illegals from 160 countries\u2026 plus thousands of criminals and terrorists\u2026 place America at great risk,\u201d the officers write, concurring that only President Trump is committed to employing the full weight of the federal government toward deportation efforts. \u201cFuture terrorist attacks of some size on U.S. soil are a near certainty,\u201d the authors add.<\/p>\n
Their diagnosis of America\u2019s security risks concur with those of the Council on Foreign Relations and the bipartisan congressional Commission on the National Defense Strategy, with the latter stating bluntly today\u2019s environment contains \u201cthe most serious and the most challenging threats since the end of World War II.\u201d The commission warned, \u201cThe United States could in short order be drawn into a war across multiple theaters with peer and near-peer adversaries, and it could lose.\u201d The Council on Foreign Relations in May suggested that the $35 trillion national debt is crowding out the government\u2019s ability to adequately fund its military. \u201cFor the government itself, this means interest on the debt slicing more and more into the funds available for national spending priorities,\u201d a recent report states.<\/p>\n
In his third bid for the White House, President Trump appears to have ingested the lessons of prior campaigns, including the threat posed by former military leaders cool to his America First approach. In 2016, the Clinton campaign conspired with more than 50 officials from the U.S. intelligence community to put forth a false narrative that Trump coordinated with Russian officials. This time around, he is leaning into his connections within the military from his time in the White House while going on the offense, too. Both Trump and running mate J.D. Vance (R-OH) have gone after Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz over claims of \u201cstolen valor,\u201d demanding the Democratic vice presidential candidate explain why he abandoned a battalion of soldiers during the Iraq War to instead run for Congress touting a military title that had already been rescinded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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