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Colin Powell: Trump has 'drifted away' from the Constitution (video)
2020-06-08
Washington (CNN) Former Republican Secretary of State Colin Powell said Sunday that President Donald Trump has "drifted away" from the Constitution, adding to a growing list of former top military officials who have strongly criticized the President's response to the nationwide protests surrounding the police killing of George Floyd.

"We have a Constitution. And we have to follow that Constitution. And the President has drifted away from it," Powell, a retired general who served under President George W. Bush, told CNN's Jake Tapper on "State of the Union."
The comments from Powell, the first African American secretary of state and chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, add to a growing list of rebukes made in recent days by former top officials who have expressed discontent with Trump's strongman approach to the protests sparked by the death of Floyd, a black man who was killed in late May by a white police officer in Minneapolis.
Under the watchful eye of Klingon Director George Tenet, Speaking at the UN on Iraqi WMD trailers, which were actually were not.
Powell said he's "proud" of what a number of former generals, admirals and diplomats have said about Trump's response last week to the widespread protests, adding that he hadn't released a public statement denouncing Trump's response because he felt he had demonstrated his displeasure with Trump in 2016 when he voted against him.

"I think what we're seeing now, is (the most) massive protest movement I have ever seen in my life, I think it suggests the country is getting wise to this and we're not going to put up with it anymore," the retired general told Tapper.

Related: CBS - Colin Powell announces he'll vote for Biden, saying Trump "lies all the time"
Posted by:Besoeker

#18  Abe "Habeas Corpus" Lincoln was a dictator. President Trump doesn't come close by a long shot. But, it's just another label the Dems/Left use when they can't argue successfully against him.
Posted by: Clem   2020-06-08 23:06  

#17  Should all the generals be surrounding him and throwing rose pedals beneath his feet? I'm starting to think Trump isn't a dictator after all.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2020-06-08 21:24  

#16  CNN, et al., will say the US Constitution is "bad" unless it's to there advantage/benefit.
Posted by: Clem   2020-06-08 18:51  

#15  Didn't all the generals line up to bash Trump a couple of years ago?

Anybody listen then?
Posted by: Bobby   2020-06-08 18:36  

#14  You weren't around in '68?

'68 through '72 'protests' were a lot more visible and many times more violent.

Please review the entities 'SDS', 'Weathermen' and 'Black Panthers'. Eight paragraphs for each group should be sufficient.

Also, for a real treat, look up protests in Peru and/or South Korea. Those folks really get into it.
Posted by: Mullah Richard   2020-06-08 16:31  

#13  Colin Powell: I’m Voting For Biden.

Yeah. He voted for Baraq too. We know he fully supports Affirmative Action in the military as well as in civilian life. And we know that Bush made a lot of mistakes too.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2020-06-08 15:40  

#12  I'm starting to see that a lot of folks haven't actually read the Constitution despite swearing an oath to protect it.

I'm also starting to think that General Casey in Mars attacks was a dead-on parody of Powell.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2020-06-08 14:03  

#11  Colin Powell: I’m Voting For Biden. Tom Cotton: Big Deal. You Haven’t Voted GOP In 16 Years.

Anyone has any positive example of affirmative action - any example?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2020-06-08 13:57  

#10  The Constitution is a living, breathing document.

Therefore, it is actually impossible to ever violate it.

#2 Nice enough fellow,

I assume this is facetious; nice fellows don't consistently engage in the self-serving backstabbing that General Umbrella Drink does.
Posted by: charger   2020-06-08 13:04  

#9  Um, Collie, baby (can I call you Collie?) Try to remember a little post-revolutionary war American history. Shay's Rebellion? The Whiskey Rebellion? There is nothing unconstitutional about putting down rebellions, even if some of the rioters share the same skin tones with you.
Posted by: Mercutio   2020-06-08 12:00  

#8  But CNN says The Constitution is bad, so Trump is doing a good thing or we need our five minutes of lame?
Posted by: swksvolFF   2020-06-08 10:40  

#7  please cite examples, actions and the part in the Constitution that it goes against - should be the follow up question to any statement like this.

so infuriating that 'journalists' can never ask questions when they aren't interested in the answer
Posted by: Bob Grorong1136   2020-06-08 10:21  

#6  America's loss, Jamaica's gain.
Posted by: Beldar Peacock1400   2020-06-08 09:32  

#5  He might have been a young officer learning the art of sucking up and butt kissing and didn't even notice 1968.
Posted by: Clem   2020-06-08 08:56  

#4  I think what we're seeing now, is (the most) massive protest movement I have ever seen in my life,

You weren't around in '68?
Posted by: Procopius2k   2020-06-08 07:35  

#3  Well, since their plan is to never win, I guess we are OK.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2020-06-08 06:59  

#2  Nice enough fellow, but not the sharpest hoe in the shed. He's simply joining the senior officer, never-Trump pile on.
Posted by: Besoeker   2020-06-08 05:43  

#1  Where might we be today without Boosh and Colin's Iraq mess?
Posted by: M. Murcek   2020-06-08 04:53  

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