Greater than 400 nationwide safety and international coverage officers, ex-Cupboard members, retired navy officers and Gold Star households endorsed former President Trump on Thursday.
In an open letter organized by former Nationwide Safety Adviser Robert O’Brien and former NSC Chief of Employees Alex Grey, the signatories condemn the “repeated failures” of the Biden-Harris administration’s international coverage and urged Individuals to re-elect Trump.
“From a world at peace beneath President Trump, we’re nearer to a 3rd world warfare than ever earlier than beneath the Biden-Harris Administration,” the letter states. “With a number of escalating wars around the globe, an open border that permits terrorists to flood into the American homeland, and malign actors like China working unabated, U.S. nationwide safety has been profoundly broken by the failed insurance policies of Kamala Harris and Joe Biden.”
The endorsement was signed by a number of outstanding officers from the Trump administration, together with former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, former Lawyer Basic Invoice Barr, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations and former 2024 Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley, and plenty of extra.
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Then-President Trump speaks on the press briefing room flanked by Lawyer Basic William Barr, second left, Protection Secretary Mark Esper, proper, and Nationwide Safety Advisor Robert O’Brien. (Win McNamee/Getty Photos)
Eleven relations of the 13 American troops killed at Abbey Gate at Kabul’s airport throughout the 2021 U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan additionally signed the letter, which praised Trump’s international coverage report in distinction to Biden’s controversial actions.Â
“When President Trump took workplace, the warfare in Afghanistan had dragged on for nearly 16 years. By February 2020, a peace settlement was reached, guaranteeing no American soldier was killed in fight till the tip of the Trump Administration. This settlement held robust as a result of the Taliban understood President Trump’s resolve and U.S. forces had been ready to make sure their compliance,” the letter reads.
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Former President Trump visits Arlington Cemetery to pay tribute to the 13 service members who had been killed throughout the U.S. evacuation from Afghanistan in 2021. (Andrew Leyden/NurPhoto through Getty Photos)
“The botched withdrawal from Afghanistan beneath the Biden-Harris Administration in 2021, led to the pointless deaths of 13 courageous American troops at Abbey Gate and left untold billions of {dollars} of excessive grade navy tools to the Taliban, making it probably the most well-armed terror group on the planet.”
Moreover, 40 retired U.S. ambassadors, 75 retired senior navy officers and a number of other hundred officers from earlier Republican administrations signed the letter, praising Trump’s diplomatic efforts on cease-fire agreements between Turkey and Kurdish fighters in Syria and the Abraham Accords. The letter refers to Trump as a “peacemaker.”Â
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and then-President Trump take part within the signing ceremony of the Abraham Accords on the South Garden of the White Home on Sept. 15, 2020. (Alex Wong/Getty Photos)
“Securing peace is within the biggest custom of American international coverage and the Judeo-Christian ideas upon which our nation was based,” the letter continues earlier than quoting from Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount within the Gospel of Matthew. “Jesus stated, ‘blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be sons of God.’ (Matthew 5:9) Such is the legacy of the Trump Administration.”
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Writing on X, O’Brien stated he was “honored” to hitch his colleagues from the Trump administration in “supporting a return to a ‘peace by way of energy’ international coverage beneath President Trump.”
One other signatory, Dr. Jerry Hendrix, former director of the Secretary of the Navy’s Advisory Panel, stated it “wasn’t a tough determination” to connect his title to the letter.
“Trump had 1 of the extra profitable international coverage presidencies because the Chilly Conflict,” Hendrix wrote on X. “He ended sequestration. He invested within the Navy. The Biden-Harris admin has been one international coverage debacle after one other.”Â
The Trump marketing campaign didn’t reply to a request for remark.Â
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