{"id":131721,"date":"2016-10-03T17:18:29","date_gmt":"2016-10-03T23:18:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/10\/03\/the-enemy-of-my-enemy.html"},"modified":"2016-10-03T17:18:29","modified_gmt":"2016-10-03T23:18:29","slug":"the-enemy-of-my-enemy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/10\/03\/the-enemy-of-my-enemy.html","title":{"rendered":"The enemy of my enemy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Michael Chertoff — who was once the lead Republican counsel on the Senate Whitewater Committee — has declared his endorsement for Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump this fall.<\/p>\n

'For Chertoff, Clinton “has good judgment and a strategic vision how to deal with the threats that face us.” […] “People can go back decades and perhaps criticize some of the judgments that were made,” Chertoff said. “That is very, very insignificant compared to the fundamental issue of how to protect the country."<\/i><\/p>\n

[…] Chertoff says he made the decision to go public for Clinton after watching the debate last week. “Trump’s sense of loyalties are misplaced,” he said. “Some of our NATO allies sent troops overseas, at the same time he is defending Russia and trying to dismiss what is widely acknowledged to be Russian intrusions into the databases of our political parties and political figures.” Chertoff said this amounted to “making enemies of your friends and cozying up to your adversaries.”<\/i><\/p>\n

For Chertoff, it’s also a question of Trump’s impulse control. “This issue came up at the debate about Miss Universe,” he said. “Not only did he seem at the debate to lose his temper, but to get up at 3:30 a.m. and reach for your smartphone is to me a hysterical reaction. If you’re president, the button you reach for is not the Twitter button; it’s the nuclear button.”'<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Michael Chertoff — who was once the lead Republican counsel on the Senate Whitewater Committee — has declared his endorsement for Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump this fall. 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