Post by Not surprising on Sept 3, 2024 16:22:42 GMT -5
Sept 3, 2024 15:51:08 GMT -5 Another Endorsement said:
A group of White House lawyers released a letter endorsing Kamala Harris for president. The letter was released to Fox News (first to report this on Aug 28) and other outlets. Their reasons are laid out in the letter below. The section below is transcribed from the screen, by the poster, during an interview with one of the signatories. Sentence breaks provided for readability. Any transcription or spelling error are unintentional.
REPUBLICAN WHITE HOUSE LAWYERS ENDORSE KAMALA HARRIS
We are lawyers who worked in the White House and Executive Office of the President for Republican Presidents Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, and George W. Bush. We endorse Kamala Harris and support her election as President because we believe that returning former President Trump to office would threaten American democracy and undermine the rule of law in our country.
We urge all patriotic Republicans, former Republicans, conservative and center-right citizens, and independent voters to place love of country above party and ideology and join us in supporting Kamala Harris.
Donald Trump’s own Vice President and multiple members of his Administration and White House Staff at the most senior levels – as well as former Republican nominees for President and Vice President – have already declined to endorse his reelection.
They understand especially well the profound risks presented by his potential return to public office.
Indeed, Trump’s own Attorney General and National Security Adviser have said unequivocally that Donal Trump is unfit for office, dangerous and detached from reality.
Trump’s attempt to prevent the peaceful transfer of power after losing the election proved beyond any reasonable doubt his willingness to place his personal interests above the law and values of our constitutional democracy.
We cannot go along with other former Republic officials who have condemned Trump with these devastating judgments but are still not willing to vote for Harris. We believe this election presents a binary choice, and Trump is utterly disqualified.
Accordingly, we choose to cast our votes for Kamala Harris to prevent returning to office someone who was guilty of grave wrongdoing to our Constitution, democracy, and rule of law, and who remains unfit, dangerous, and detached from reality.
We expect to disagree with some significant elements of the Harris Administration’s policy agenda. Although the Biden-Harris Administration did in fact enact important, bipartisan legislation – indeed, more so than any Administration in recent memory – our endorsement of Kamala Harris is based on constitutional principles rather than policy agreement.
We believe it is far more likely that constitutional checks and balances will restrain Kamala Harris, a former prosecutor and state attorney general, on questions of policy, than that they will restrain Donald Trump on questions of power.
We will vote for Kamala Harris because be strongly believe that, unlike Donald Trump and his MAGA movement, Kamala Harris and her Administration:
- Will respect the results of elections whether she wins or loses, and will not deny the results of a free and fair election by pressuring public officials to “find” extra votes or by commissioning fake presidential electors to falsify the results;
- Will oppose, rather than encourage and pardon, violence and physical attacks by political partisans;
- Will not erode our constitutional system of checks and balances by claiming dictatorial power;
- Will not undermine the First Amendment by demonizing the press as the “enemy of the people;”
- Will not foment bias and disrespect among fellow Americans by demeaning Americans of immigrant heritage, women, minorities, and persons with disabilities;
- Will not continuously advance conspiracy theories about matters of public policy in the face of objective evidence to the contrary;
- Will not undermine our fellow citizens’ patriotism and love of country by continuously trashing essential national institutions and by routinely comparing us unfavorably to foreign despots and autocrats;
- Will honor the service of men and women in the military and not denigrate the scarifies of out veterans and their families;
- Will accord out legal institutions, courts and judges appropriate respect;
- Will stand with our international allies and oppose the world’s growing number of dangerous authoritarian regimes, rather than the reverse;
- Will not poison our children, our culture, and our civic values by lying constantly, and by exemplifying crude, mean-spirited, and immoral behavior; and
- Will not deploy hate to divide us further and subvert our shared ideals as Americans.
For these reasons, we endorse and support Kamala Harris for President and oppose returning Donald Trump to any position of power or trust under the United States.
Republican White House and Executive Office of the President Lawyers Endorsing Kamala Harris for President:
John B. Bellinger III - Legal Adviser for the U.S. Department of State and the National Security Council
Senior Associate Counsel to the President and
Legal Adviser to the NSC (Bush ’43)
Phillip D. Brady Assistant to the President and Staff Secretary in the White House from 1991 to 1993 under President George H. W. Bush (neocon)
Deputy Counsel to the President (Reagan)
Benedict S. Cohen - Mr. Benedict S. Cohen was appointed by President Bush to serve as the General Counsel for the Department of the Army effective on August 4, 2006. Mr. Cohen has twenty years of experience in high-level positions across the federal government, with a principal focus on national security and foreign policy. (neocon)
Associate Counsel to the President (Reagan)
Peter D. Keisler - American lawyer whose 2006 nomination by President George W. Bush (neocon)
Associate Counsel to the President (Reagan)
Robert M. Kruger - Associate Counsel to the President. He will succeed John G. Roberts, Jr. (swamp creature)
Associate Counsel to the President (Reagan)
Michael Luttig - appointed to the federal bench by (neocon) President George H.W. Bush, he served as assistant attorney general at the U.S. Department of Justice
Associate Counsel to the President (Reagan)
John M. Mitnick - American lawyer who served as General Counsel for the United States Department of Homeland Security. (Neocon)
Associate Counsel to the President (Bush ’43)
Deputy Counsel, White House Homeland Security Council (Bush ’43)
Alan Charles Raul - founder of Sidley's highly ranked global Privacy and Cybersecurity practice and a member of the firm's top ranked Crisis Management and Strategic Response team. (neocon)
Associate Counsel to the President (Reagan)
General Counsel, OMB (Reagan; Bush ’41)
Nicholas Rostow - Nicholas Rostow is Distinguished Research Professor at the National Defense University, (neocon)
Special Assistant to the President for
National Security Affairs and Legal Advisor
to the NSC (Reagan; Bush ’41)
Reter J. Rusthoven (He's a RINO)
Associate Counsel to the President (Reagan)
David B. Waller - Mr Waller served as Deputy Director General and head of management of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
Senior Associate Counsel to the President (Reagan)
Wendell L. Wilkie II,
Associate Counsel to the President (Reagan)
We are lawyers who worked in the White House and Executive Office of the President for Republican Presidents Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, and George W. Bush. We endorse Kamala Harris and support her election as President because we believe that returning former President Trump to office would threaten American democracy and undermine the rule of law in our country.
We urge all patriotic Republicans, former Republicans, conservative and center-right citizens, and independent voters to place love of country above party and ideology and join us in supporting Kamala Harris.
Donald Trump’s own Vice President and multiple members of his Administration and White House Staff at the most senior levels – as well as former Republican nominees for President and Vice President – have already declined to endorse his reelection.
They understand especially well the profound risks presented by his potential return to public office.
Indeed, Trump’s own Attorney General and National Security Adviser have said unequivocally that Donal Trump is unfit for office, dangerous and detached from reality.
Trump’s attempt to prevent the peaceful transfer of power after losing the election proved beyond any reasonable doubt his willingness to place his personal interests above the law and values of our constitutional democracy.
We cannot go along with other former Republic officials who have condemned Trump with these devastating judgments but are still not willing to vote for Harris. We believe this election presents a binary choice, and Trump is utterly disqualified.
Accordingly, we choose to cast our votes for Kamala Harris to prevent returning to office someone who was guilty of grave wrongdoing to our Constitution, democracy, and rule of law, and who remains unfit, dangerous, and detached from reality.
We expect to disagree with some significant elements of the Harris Administration’s policy agenda. Although the Biden-Harris Administration did in fact enact important, bipartisan legislation – indeed, more so than any Administration in recent memory – our endorsement of Kamala Harris is based on constitutional principles rather than policy agreement.
We believe it is far more likely that constitutional checks and balances will restrain Kamala Harris, a former prosecutor and state attorney general, on questions of policy, than that they will restrain Donald Trump on questions of power.
We will vote for Kamala Harris because be strongly believe that, unlike Donald Trump and his MAGA movement, Kamala Harris and her Administration:
- Will respect the results of elections whether she wins or loses, and will not deny the results of a free and fair election by pressuring public officials to “find” extra votes or by commissioning fake presidential electors to falsify the results;
- Will oppose, rather than encourage and pardon, violence and physical attacks by political partisans;
- Will not erode our constitutional system of checks and balances by claiming dictatorial power;
- Will not undermine the First Amendment by demonizing the press as the “enemy of the people;”
- Will not foment bias and disrespect among fellow Americans by demeaning Americans of immigrant heritage, women, minorities, and persons with disabilities;
- Will not continuously advance conspiracy theories about matters of public policy in the face of objective evidence to the contrary;
- Will not undermine our fellow citizens’ patriotism and love of country by continuously trashing essential national institutions and by routinely comparing us unfavorably to foreign despots and autocrats;
- Will honor the service of men and women in the military and not denigrate the scarifies of out veterans and their families;
- Will accord out legal institutions, courts and judges appropriate respect;
- Will stand with our international allies and oppose the world’s growing number of dangerous authoritarian regimes, rather than the reverse;
- Will not poison our children, our culture, and our civic values by lying constantly, and by exemplifying crude, mean-spirited, and immoral behavior; and
- Will not deploy hate to divide us further and subvert our shared ideals as Americans.
For these reasons, we endorse and support Kamala Harris for President and oppose returning Donald Trump to any position of power or trust under the United States.
Republican White House and Executive Office of the President Lawyers Endorsing Kamala Harris for President:
John B. Bellinger III - Legal Adviser for the U.S. Department of State and the National Security Council
Senior Associate Counsel to the President and
Legal Adviser to the NSC (Bush ’43)
Phillip D. Brady Assistant to the President and Staff Secretary in the White House from 1991 to 1993 under President George H. W. Bush (neocon)
Deputy Counsel to the President (Reagan)
Benedict S. Cohen - Mr. Benedict S. Cohen was appointed by President Bush to serve as the General Counsel for the Department of the Army effective on August 4, 2006. Mr. Cohen has twenty years of experience in high-level positions across the federal government, with a principal focus on national security and foreign policy. (neocon)
Associate Counsel to the President (Reagan)
Peter D. Keisler - American lawyer whose 2006 nomination by President George W. Bush (neocon)
Associate Counsel to the President (Reagan)
Robert M. Kruger - Associate Counsel to the President. He will succeed John G. Roberts, Jr. (swamp creature)
Associate Counsel to the President (Reagan)
Michael Luttig - appointed to the federal bench by (neocon) President George H.W. Bush, he served as assistant attorney general at the U.S. Department of Justice
Associate Counsel to the President (Reagan)
John M. Mitnick - American lawyer who served as General Counsel for the United States Department of Homeland Security. (Neocon)
Associate Counsel to the President (Bush ’43)
Deputy Counsel, White House Homeland Security Council (Bush ’43)
Alan Charles Raul - founder of Sidley's highly ranked global Privacy and Cybersecurity practice and a member of the firm's top ranked Crisis Management and Strategic Response team. (neocon)
Associate Counsel to the President (Reagan)
General Counsel, OMB (Reagan; Bush ’41)
Nicholas Rostow - Nicholas Rostow is Distinguished Research Professor at the National Defense University, (neocon)
Special Assistant to the President for
National Security Affairs and Legal Advisor
to the NSC (Reagan; Bush ’41)
Reter J. Rusthoven (He's a RINO)
Associate Counsel to the President (Reagan)
David B. Waller - Mr Waller served as Deputy Director General and head of management of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
Senior Associate Counsel to the President (Reagan)
Wendell L. Wilkie II,
Associate Counsel to the President (Reagan)
They are likely endorsing Harris because she will continue the uniparty swamp wars overseas and because they may be getting big fat checks from the US government for their think tank activities.
Any anti-war candidate will get pushback from the military industrial complex. If you could, just ask JFK how that will go