In the latest salvo of dueling military endorsements for U.S. president, the Joe Biden campaign announced that over 200 retired generals and admirals endorsed Biden for president. This comes only a week after the Trump campaign released a letter with 235 retired generals and admirals endorsing Trump for president.
As expected, the Biden endorsements are receiving much wider mainstream media coverage than the earlier Trump endorsements. And the coverage was also openly misleading.
NBC news falsely stated that “Thursday’s letter was notable for the sheer number of top brass from every branch of the military who chose to endorse Biden.” NBC clearly missed the story of the 235 retired military leaders who had endorsed Trump just a week earlier.
The Peacock network did correctly emphasize that some of these retired military officers “served under Trump.” In addition to these retired military leaders, other former national security officials also endorsed Biden.
Unsurprisingly, these included five former Secretaries of Defense who served in either the Clinton or Obama administrations: William Perry under Clinton, William Cohen under Clinton, Chuck Hagel under Obama, and Ash Carter under Obama. The fact that these all served in Democrat administrations revealed a lot more of the partisan agenda at work.
Sadly, the Biden endorsement was almost totally bereft of any real policy or substance. The primary critique of President Trump was subjectively focused on “character,” which could equally be described as “personality.” And many on both sides can criticize.
When it comes to real, actual defense policies, there is a clear disconnect.
Admitting they may have serious reservations with Biden’s actual defense policies, these military leaders wrote, “While some of us may have different opinions on particular policy matters, we trust Joe Biden’s positions are rooted in sound judgment, thorough understanding, and fundamental values.”
However, as with most of the Trump critiques, there was little of real substance to back that up. They certainly did not delve in Biden’s history of compulsive plagiarism, fibbing, hair smelling and inappropriate touching – or his helping his son Hunter make lucrative business deals with the communist Chinese while he was Vice President – to support why Biden has better “judgment” or “values.”
And the only time the letter wades into policy, it is profoundly embarrassing. It mentions climate change, repeats Democrat talking points on the uncorroborated “Russian bounties” story, and even inverts Trump’s resolute stand to contain China into a domestic policy issue. All this makes the letter even more overtly political and partisan.
The letter says, “Climate change continues unabated, as does North Korea’s nuclear program. The president has ceded influence to a Russian adversary who puts bounties on the heads of American military personnel, and his trade war against China has only harmed America’s farmers and manufacturers.”
Ignored by all these military “luminaries” is the fact that under President Trump, U.S. greenhouse gasses have declined, that the U.S has had demonstrably stronger policies across the board on Russia than the Obama-Biden team ever had, that Trump took a calculated gamble to shake up decades of failed U.S. policies toward North Korea, which while not producing results, ended no worse than the previous status quo.
Of course, they also ignored one of the most significant foreign policy accomplishments of the decade, if not longer, the Trump-initiated and concluded peace deals between two Arab states and Israel – something that will likely change the entire strategic landscape in the Middle East.
Most astonishing, and deeply concerning, is the willingness of these national security leaders, to not just ignore, but criticize — on the weakest of domestic reasons — the President’s bold and forceful approach to contain America’s number one existential threat – communist China. Something that was desperately needed, but not done by any other prior President.
This alone severely undercuts the credibility of every single one of these retired military officers and officials.
Apparently, these retired military and other leaders care more about what Trump tweets, or says offhand in a political campaign stop, than real foreign and defense policies that concretely enhance American national security.
This endorsement should not influence voters who really care about national security.
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There are idiots in all jobs and you just seen 200 of them.
If hiden biden actually have members or ex members of the military, they are nothing more than communist traitors! These scumbags are lying in wait to take over our country like the Russian Navy in 1917! Write their names down so that we can round them up and exterminate them!
Rounding up is a futile effort and a waste of prison space.
The reason why the left focuses on Trump’s tweets is because, other than the Corona Virus, they do not have anything else.
The military does not support Biden. I have been in the military for almost 25 years and I know of only a very, very small portion of soldiers who endorses him. The military is overwhelmingly supportive of President Trump, so do not believe the media lies.
The only retired military personnel who support Biden are the globalist traitors who, fortunately, have been replaced with mostly patriotic officers.
Do you see how these evil Democrats work. They lie about everything.
So the Democrats found some traitorous ex-military guys who were willing to sell their souls for ?How much? I can guarantee you that the few military leaders that Obama left in the military when he forced the resignation of 206 of our leaders who refused to agree to attack Americans would not be generals and admirals who you would want fighting for you.
Sell outs like Bolton and Mad Deg. Has-beens who have lost their way and will now face Matthew12:36.
Ask any enlisted person and they can tell you that the more brass they have the less thinking they are. Sadly a lot of these old people are stuck in their ways they prefer a specific news program or persons and flat out refuse to research other avenues for a more complete story.
Apparently Biden, Dems and MSM not only make up stories and plagiarize past speeches of candidates they also plagiarize military endorsements as well.
It’s not over until it’s over! The MSM can’t help themselves, they ignore or don’t report anything good for the American people but they gleefully report anything if it is against the President! Hope he shows them up on Nov 3rd with a Win that makes their heads explode!!
If it weren’t for the Marxist Media Mob, Trump would be ahead 57%-43% over Basement Biden in the Polls.
Any military officer that would endorse Biden over the most pro-Military President since Reagan has forsaken his/her honor for some type of “compensation” from the Deep State Elites, both Dem & Rep! The rank & file are the ones that die and Trump has taken action to ensure that is not done in vain! Most of them couldn’t put an intelligent statement on Climate Change, so it’s obvious that the DNC wrote it!
Jojodmonkey got it right !
“Write their names down so that we can round them up and exterminate them!” I am jwstx and I approve of this message. (;0))
Let me add that ‘touching and sniffing women’ is not the half of it. He also stands credibly accused of sexually assaulting a co-worker by reaching under her clothing and inserting his fingers in her vagina. He has been recorded and photographed stroking, patting, embracing and kissing pre-teen girls for DECADES. The looks on those little faces say loud and clear In don’t like this’. And finally, a few years ago, one of his secret service officers wanted a picture of him with himself and his fiancé. Biden grabbed her breast and the agent went ballistic. His buds had the pull him off from punching the old geezer in his big fat nose. When these records were requested by Judicial Watch, the Sec Serv said all the records had been destroyed. Oddly enough, I saw this picture months ago. I was shocked enough by it that I assumed it was photo shop, because the left always pulls this on Trump. But maybe it was real.
Huh. Let me see. This does not occur, except for this situation? Huh. Odd. As the Asst Officer in Charge & Command Senior Chief in Navcommdet Souda Bay, Crete, during Operation Desert Shield/Storm, I had a personal bounty of $50,000 put on my head, along with other senior base personnel, at different denominations. What I am saying is, it’s an ongoing issue. Always has been. It happened a lot in the past and it will continue to happen in the future. One does have to remember who was VP when Ambassador Stevens and my friend Sean Smith were allowed to die, because the Obummer admin, including Sleepy Joe (who was probably sleeping, while they were dying), failed in their duties and just LET THEM DIE.
Killery was a part of that!
“This alone severely undercuts the credibility of every single one of these retired military officers and officials.”
Sorry, but that statement erroneously implies that they had any credibility to begin with which, at least for many of them, is simply NOT the case.