Former Secretary of State Colin Powell says that he will once again not vote for Donald Trump, calling the president’s approach to politics “dangerous…
Former Secretary of State Colin Powell says that he will once again not vote for Donald Trump, calling the president’s approach to politics “dangerous for our democracy” and asserting that Trump has “drifted away” from the Constitution.
Powell publicly said he would vote for Hillary Clinton in 2016 and he plans to vote for former Vice President Joe Biden, who clinched the Democratic nomination last week, in November.
“I’m very close to Joe Biden in a social matter and on a political matter. I have worked with him for 35,40 years,” Powell told CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday. “And he is now the candidate, and I will be voting for him.”
Powell, a retired four-star Army general, joins a growing list of former senior military officials who have denounced Trump, including a wave of condemnation last week that was sparked by Trump’s walk to St. John’s Episcopal Church after National Guard members helped drive protesters from the area around the White House.
Trump’s former secretary of defense, retired Gen. Jim Mattis, said in a statement he was “appalled” by Trump’s handling of the protests that have followed the death of George Floyd, a black man who died after a white Minneapolis police officer held him down with a knee on his neck.
“Donald Trump is the first president in my lifetime who does not try to unite the American people – does not even pretend to try. Instead he tries to divide us,” Mattis wrote.
