In the 1970s, the "news" media strongly criticized Nixon for making an enemies list.
Today, the enemies are putting themselves on such lists! And broadcasting them!
I hope gathering them together like this makes the landscape less confusing.
NATIONAL SECURITY LEADERS FOR BIDEN
We are 489 retired Generals, Admirals, Senior Noncommissioned Officers,
Ambassadors and Senior Civilian National Security Officials supporting Joe Biden for President.
AN OPEN LETTER TO AMERICA
September 24, 2020
https://www.nationalsecurityleaders4biden.com/ A STATEMENT BY FORMER REPUBLICAN NATIONAL SECURITY OFFICIALS
The statement below was issued by over 70 former senior Republican national security officials
on August 20, 2020, and 60 additional senior officials have now signed on,
including many who served in the Trump Administration.
We are profoundly concerned about our nation's security and standing in the world under the leadership of Donald Trump.
The President has demonstrated that he is dangerously unfit to serve another term.
https://www.defendingdemocracytogether.org/national-security/ All The Republicans Who Have Endorsed Joe Biden For President
Andrew Solender Forbes Staff
Updated Sep 27, 2020, 09:19am EDT
Mr Solender has written an article that includes many names of politicians against Trump.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/andrewsolender/2020/09/27/all-the-republicans-who-have-endorsed-joe-biden-for-president/#55765e357340 Open Letter from Senior Military Leaders
https://cdn.donaldjtrump.com/public-files/press_assets/235-military-leaders-endorse-president-trump-final.pdf And here's the list that was made public by Fox News in late September,
but was posted in a software format that is incompatible with many computers.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/reagan-bush-officials-endorse-trump-citing-foreign-policy-accomplishments And now here it is in a much more readable format:
A STATEMENT BY FORMER REPUBLICAN
NATIONAL SECURITY AND SENIOR OFFICIALS
FOR PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP
We are former national security and senior officials who served during the administrations of
Presidents Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, George W. Bush, and/or Donald Trump,
or as Republican Members of Congress or Senior Congressional Staff members.
We proudly endorse the re-election of Donald J. Trump.
President Trump has broght a badly needed realism to American national security policy
that puts the prosperity and security of the American people first.
President Trump has pursued a strong foreign and national security policy in America's national interests.
He has imposed the toughest sanction in history against China, Iran, North Korea, and Russia.
He also has persuaded out closest friends and allies to start living up to their commitments to our mutual security.
Thanks to President Trump's personal diplomacy,
America's NATO allies have already dedicated $130 billion to our shared defense
and pledge to spend $400 billion through 2024.
US troops stationed in Germany are being brought home
on the 75th anniversary of the end of WWII or moved to Poland,
and our military is refocusing on the theater of greatest 21st Century concern: East Asia.
South Korea also has increased its spending to support U.S. troops deployed on the peninsula.
In the critical new theater of space,
Trump created the newest branch of our Armed Forces to address these threat, the U.S. Space Force,
while closing the gap in space in the dual threats of
Chinese and Russian hypersonic weapons and anti-satellite technology.
President Trump has connected U.S. diplomacy
with concrete results for Americans and our allies and partners.
He has upgraded the North American Free Trade Agreement into
the more modern and U.S.-friendly, US-Mexico-Canada Agreement.
The Trump Administration's deregulation of American energy
has turned the U.S. into a net exporter of oil and gas,
which weakens Russia, Venezuela and Iran
and gives the USA a freer hand in international affairs.
The Trump Administration brokered the "Abraham Accords,"
establishing diplomatic and business relations between Israel and the United Arab Emirates.
The August 2020 announcement at the White House was followed a month later
by a similar diplomatic breakthrough between Israel and Bahrain.
For these initiatives, as well as negotiating a business and commerce thaw between Serbia and Kosovo,
President Trump has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.
In addition to these peace treaties between Israel and the Gulf states,
the Trump Administration has weakened a perennial American antagonist,
which is also the country that relentlessly demands Israel's annihilation: Iran.
Iran is bankrupt, isolated, suffers both economically and militarily,
and still reels from President Trump's decision to
take out its most powerful, terror-commanding general, Qasem Soleimani.
Iran's march to a nuclear weapons capability,
identified by the United Nations International Atomic Energy Agency in June
as being unverifiable and beyond monitoring,
has been set back significantly by President Trump's direct actions:
economic sanctions, diplomatic isolation, and covert operations.
More than any previous president, Donald Trump holds China accountable for
their predatory trade practices,
their systematic incarceration of Muslim and Christian minorities,
their theft of land and resources across the South and East China Seas,
their corrupt practices in their Belt and Road Initiative,
and looting of the free world's intellectual property.
He has reversed the seemingly inexorable spread of Huawei's 5G technology and software.
President Trump is putting massive pressure on China
to join tri-lateral nuclear arms limitation talks with Russia.
China, which some analysts estimate already has thousands of nuclear weapons,
must not be allowed to continue this march unabated.
Finally, China must pay a steep price for its lies and foot-dragging as
COVID-19 roared out of Wuhan and unleashed a deadly plague upon the world.
We also believe that a president's duty and loyalty are owed, first and foremost,
to the American people, and not the international community,
which is consistent with strengthening our alliances and friendships.
For all of these reasons, we have concluded, that Donald J. Trump
should be re-elected as President of the United States.
To that end, and in the best interest of our nation and all Americans,
we will proudly vote for him.
Christopher B. Burnham
Former Assistant Secretary Department of State and
Under Secretary General of the United Nations
K T McFarland
Former Deputy National Security Advisor
Edwin Meese
Former Attorney General of the United States
Norm Coleman
Former United States Senator
Haley Barbour
Former Governor of Mississippi
and Chairman of the Republican National Committee
Robert Livingston
Former Member, U.S. House of Representatives
Matt Schlapp
Former Deputy Assistant to the President
and Former White House Political Director
Charles L. Glaser
Former Ambassador to El Salvador
Stephen Yates
Former Deputy National Security Advisor
to the Vice President
Ty McCoy
Former Under Secretary of the Air Force
and acting Secretary of the Air Force
Ken Blackwell
Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations
Commission on Human Rights
Brad Higgins
Former Assistant Secretary of State
Deroy Murdock
Former member, Department of Education
Advisory Board on International Educational Programs
Christian Whiton
Former Deputy Special Envoy for North Korean Human Rights
and Senior Advisor, Department of State
Jack David
Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense
for Combating Weapons of Mass Destruction
Michael Wynne
Former Secretary of the Air Force
George A. Folsom
Deputy Director, Iraq Reconstruction Management Office, Baghdad,
and former President & CEO of the International Republican Institute
Randy Forbes
Former Member, House of Representatives
Christopher M. Lehman, Sr.
Former Special Assistant to President
for National Security Affairs
Robert Blau
Former VP, Millenium Challenge Corp
and Senior Foreign Service Officer
Bob Barr
Former Member, U.S. House of Representatives
James Talent
Former United States Senator
Rudy Giuliani
Former Mayor of New York City and
Associate U.S. Attorney General
Allen West
Former Member, U.S. House of Representatives
Jack Nicholson
Brigadier General, U.S. Army (Ret)
Former Under Secretary of Veterans Affairs
Brenda LaGrange Johnson
Former U.S. Ambassador to Jamaica
John Mills
Former Director of Cybersecurity Policy, Strategy,
International Integration, Department of Defense
Jim Nicholson
Former Secretary of Veterans Affairs
and U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See
Rodolphe M. Vallee
Former U.S. Ambassador to Slovakia
Ric Grenell
Former U.S. Ambassador to Germany
and (acting) Director of U.S. National Intelligence
Gordon England
Secretary of the Navy, Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security,
and Deputy Secretary of Defense
Pete Wilson
Former United States Senator and
Governor of California
Michael Anton
Former Deputy Assistant to the President,
and National Security Council
Rob Spalding
Brigadier General U.S. Air Force (Ret)
Former Senior Director for Strategic Planning, National Security Council
William C. Triplett, II
Former Chief Republican Council,
United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
Ira Greenstein
Former Deputy Assistant to the President
Bob McEwen
Former Member, U.S. House of Representatives
Van Hipp
Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army
John Deming
Former Deputy Press Secretary to John McCain
James B. Linder
Major General U.S. Army (Ret)
Former Chief of Staff U.S. Special Operations Command
James E. Campbell
Former Senior Intelligence Service, Central Intelligence Agency
Bob Dees
Major General, U.S. Army (Ret.)
Gregory Schumacher
Major General, U.S. Army (Ret.)
Robert Walter
Major General, U.S. Army (Ret.)
Richard T. Higgins
Former Director of Strategic Planning, National Security Council
Stephen Mundt
Major General, U.S. Army (Ret.)
Tim Huelskamp, Ph.D.
Former Member, U.S. House of Representatives
Rudy Boschwitz
Former United States Senator and
Ambassador to the United Nations
Commission on Human Rights
Michael Doran
Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense and
Senior Director, National Security Council
Amanda E. Milias
Senior Advisor and acting Deputy Assistant Secretary of State
James "Jim" Courter
Former Member, U.S. House of Representatives
Chairman, U.S. Base Closure Commission
Mary Dawkins
Former U.S. Ambassador to Barbados
Dudley Sipprelle
Former Senior Foreign Service Officer (Ret) and Consul General
Carlos Garcia
Director, National Security Council
and Senior Foreign Service Officer
Edwin J. Feulner
Former Chairman, U.S. Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy
Dorothy Gray
Former U.S. Public Delegate to the United Nations
Jon Myers
Former Officer-in-Charge, Benghazi Response Mission
Pete Sessions
Former Member, U.S. House of Representatives
John Miller
Major General, U.S. Air Force (Ret.)
Peter M. Hekman
Vice Admiral, U.S. Navy, (Ret)
Joe Arbuckle
Major General, U.S. Army (Ret.)
Thomas G. McInerney
Lieutenant General, U.S. Air Force (Ret.)
Paul E. Vallely
Major General, U.S. Army (Ret.)
James J. Carey
Rear Admiral, U.S. Navy (Ret)
Norman Shumway
Former Member, U.S. House of Representatives
Gil Gutnecht
Former Member, U.S. House of Representatives
David McIntosh
Former Member, U.S. House of Representatives
Tim Hutchinson
Former U.S. Senator
Jim DeMint
Former U.S. Senator
Frank Mermoud
Former Special Representative for
Commercial and Business Affairs, State Department