Mientras los aliados de Donald Trump redoblan su apuesta por la fallida visión de política exterior de Trump en la sesión de la convención del RNC de hoy, el Director de Respuesta Rápida del DNC, Alex Floyd, emitió la siguiente declaración:

“Donald Trump pasó cuatro años debilitando nuestra seguridad nacional y todavía está empeñado en elogiar a los dictadores, amenazar con abandonar a nuestros aliados y socavar el liderazgo estadounidense en el escenario mundial. Digan lo que digan los republicanos MAGA que hablen en la convención del Comité Nacional Republicano hoy, ellos intentarán tergiversar la verdad, nada cambia el hecho de que Trump puso nuestra seguridad y a nuestros aliados en último lugar y permitió que los dictadores ganarán terreno a expensas de la seguridad de los estadounidenses.

“No nos sorprende que tantos líderes militares, incluyendo el propio exjefe de gabinete de Trump, hayan hablado en contra de su historial irresponsable como comandante en jefe. Ahora, Trump ha elegido a un compañero de fórmula de extrema derecha MAGA, JD Vance, quien comparte sus peligrosos puntos de vista, criticando a la OTAN, presionando para abandonar Ucrania y amenazando con socavar nuestra seguridad nacional.

“A medida que Trump redobla sus fracasos en política exterior con Vance como compañero de fórmula, está claro que no se puede confiar en que ni él ni Vance lideren el escenario mundial”.

Donald Trump, que ha elogiado repetidamente a Putin, dijo que habría dejado que Rusia “se apoderará” de partes de Ucrania y amenazó con dejarlo “hacer lo que quiera” con nuestros aliados de la OTAN.

CNN En Español: “Trump dice que alentaría a Rusia a ‘hacer lo que quiera’ con cualquier país de la OTAN que no pague lo suficiente”

Washington Post: “Former president Donald Trump has privately said he could end Russia’s war in Ukraine by pressuring Ukraine to give up some territory… Some foreign policy experts said Trump’s idea would reward Russian President Vladimir Putin and condone the violation of internationally recognized borders by force…

“Trump has consistently complimented Putin, expressed admiration for his dictatorial rule and gone out of his way to avoid criticizing him, most recently for the death in jail of political opponent Alexei Navalny.”

Daily Beast: “Fox News Edits Out Trump Saying He Might’ve Let Russia ‘Take Over’ Parts of Ukraine”

“[Trump] revealed how he personally would have prevented the war. According to Trump, all he needed to do was let Russia ‘take over’ parts of Ukraine.”

New York Times: “Mr. Trump often praises Mr. Putin — he has described the invasion of Ukraine as the work of a ‘genius’ — and has long admired him as a ‘strong’ leader.”

Washington Post, February 2022: “‘Genius,’ ‘Savvy’: Trump reacts to Putin’s invasion of Ukraine exactly as you’d expect”

Trump sobre Putin: “Teníamos una muy buena relación”.

Donald Trump, Marzo de 2023: “Me llevé muy bien con Putin”.

ABC News: “Trump spent his latest rally in New Hampshire praising multiple authoritarian leaders and quoting Russian President Vladimir Putin to try and discredit the criminal indictments against him.”

Numerosos líderes militares y exasesores de Trump, incluyendo aquellos más cercanos a él mientras tomaba decisiones imprudentes de política exterior, lo han criticado como una grave amenaza a nuestra seguridad nacional. El exjefe de personal de Trump y general retirado de la Infantería de Marina, John Kelly, dijo que Trump llamó a los veteranos “tontos” y “perdedores” y que “no tiene idea de lo que representa Estados Unidos”, y el general retirado del ejército de cuatro estrellas, Barry McCaffrey, criticó el fracaso de Trump para proteger los intereses estadounidenses de Rusia.

Los Angeles Times: “Un nuevo reporte detalla múltiples instancias en las que el presidente Donald Trump hizo comentarios despectivos sobre miembros del Ejército de Estados Unidos que fueron capturados o murieron, incluso refiriéndose en 2018 a los soldados estadounidenses que murieron en combate y están enterrados en el Cementerio Estadounidense Aisne-Marne de Francia como ‘perdedores’ y ‘bobos’”.

Axios: “Former President Trump didn’t want to visit a cemetery near Paris for Americans who fought and died in World War I because it was filled with ‘suckers’ and ‘losers,’ John Kelly, his longest-serving chief of staff, said in a statement to CNN on Monday.”

The Atlantic: “Trump said, ‘Why should I go to that cemetery? It’s filled with losers.’ In a separate conversation on the same trip, Trump referred to the more than 1,800 marines who lost their lives at Belleau Wood as ‘suckers’ for getting killed.”

CNN: “‘A person that has no idea what America stands for and has no idea what America is all about. A person who cavalierly suggests that a selfless warrior who has served his country for 40 years in peacetime and war should lose his life for treason – in expectation that someone will take action. A person who admires autocrats and murderous dictators. A person that has nothing but contempt for our democratic institutions, our Constitution, and the rule of law. ‘There is nothing more that can be said,’ Kelly concluded. ‘God help us.”

Politico: “President-elect Joe Biden should start receiving intelligence briefings, and the delay in allowing the transition to officially get started is damaging U.S. national security, President Donald Trump’s former chief of staff John Kelly told POLITICO in an exclusive interview.

CNN: “‘The depths of his dishonesty is just astounding to me. The dishonesty, the transactional nature of every relationship, though it’s more pathetic than anything else. He is the most flawed person I have ever met in my life,’ [John Kelly], the retired Marine general has told friends, CNN has learned.’”

CNN: “[General Mark Milley] ‘was certain that Trump had gone into a serious mental decline in the aftermath of the election, with Trump now all but manic, screaming at officials and constructing his own alternate reality about endless election conspiracies.’”

The Hill: “A retired four-star Army general said that he believes that President Trump is a ‘serious threat to US national security.’ Retired Gen. Barry McCaffrey tweeted Friday that he reached the conclusion about Trump because the president ‘is refusing to protect vital US interests from active Russian attacks.’ ‘It is apparent that he is for some unknown reason under the sway of [Russian President Vladimir] Putin,’ he added.”

CNN: “Retired Marine Gen. John Allen: Trump’s threats of military force may be ‘the beginning of the end of the American experiment’”

CNN: Former Trump Defense Secretary General James Mattis said Trump “has no moral compass” and was “dangerous” and “unfit” for office.

Washington Post: Mattis resigned after Trump directed him “to do something that I thought went beyond stupid to felony stupid, strategically jeopardizing our place in the world and everything else.”

Durante su primer mandato, Trump puso dictadores por encima de nuestros aliados, cedió el liderazgo de Estados Unidos en todo el mundo e hizo que el mundo fuera menos seguro.

Politico: “Trump’s approach is hurting the U.S., foreign policy experts say”

Associated Press: “Trump embracing US adversaries, pushing away its allies”

CNN: “Trump sides with Putin over US intelligence”

New York Times: “Much of the world has soured on American leadership since President Trump took office, a loss of faith that has opened up opportunities for other countries like China, Russia and Germany to assert themselves on the international stage, according to an extensive new survey of people living around the globe.”

Forbes: “Trump said of his relationships with dictators, ‘the tougher and meaner they are, the better I get along with them,’ which he insisted is ‘not a bad thing.’ 

“‘The easy ones,’ Trump said, referring to America’s allies, ‘I maybe don’t like as much or don’t get along with as much.’”

Ahora, Trump promete en un segundo mandato “terminar el proceso” de abandonar y socavar a la OTAN.

France 24: “La carrera por ocupar la Casa Blanca está en curso, mientras Trump amenaza con revivir el fantasma de discrepancias y desunión entre la primera potencia y el resto de aliados occidentales, como el vivido durante su Administración del ‘America First’”. 

France 24: “El expresidente estadounidense Donald Trump ha vuelto a sacudir las relaciones internacionales al poner en duda el principio de solidaridad que rige la OTAN. El 11 de febrero, durante un acto de campaña en Carolina del Sur, el hombre, que aspira a un segundo mandato como “comandante en jefe”, criticó una vez más a los Estados miembros de la Organización del Tratado del Atlántico Norte por no financiar suficientemente la institución y sugirió que tal vez no protegería a un aliado en caso de un ataque ruso si este no tuviera sus cuentas al día con la alianza”.

The Independent: “Trump refuses to commit to NATO in second term at Fox News town hall”

Trump: “Tenemos que finalizar el proceso que iniciamos bajo mi administración de revaluar fundamentalmente el propósito y la misión de la OTAN”. 

Rolling Stone: “​​Trump Plots to Pull Out of NATO — If He Doesn’t Get His Way”

“Donald Trump wanted to pull the United States out of NATO during his first term, but was repeatedly talked out of it by senior administration officials. For a possible second term in the White House, [Trump] is already discussing how he could actually get it done, if his demands aren’t met by NATO.”

Politico: “Trump vowed he’d ‘never’ help Europe if it’s attacked, top EU official says”

J.D. Vance encabezó la iniciativa para bloquear la ayuda a Ucrania en el Senado, sugirió ceder partes de Ucrania a Rusia (al igual que Trump) y ha criticado a la OTAN.

El Periodico: “El reportero, que llegó a entrevistar al ahora aspirante vicepresidencial [Vance] en una ocasión, confirma que en los últimos años el legislador ohionés no solo se ha convertido en una de las voces norteamericanas más críticas con el envío de ayuda militar a Ucrania, sino que incluso se encarga de impulsar en EEUU narrativas favorables al Kremlin que repiten uno por uno los principales argumentos de la propaganda rusa, tanto en sus intervenciones públicas como en plataformas mediáticas alternativas que cuentan con su participación”.

NBC News: “Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, on Monday dismissed fears of Russia’s military capabilities under President Vladimir Putin and suggested Ukraine should give up some of its land to end the war.” 

Politico: “Trump’s VP pick spells ‘disaster’ for Europe and Ukraine”

“One senior EU official, who was granted anonymity to speak candidly on the issue, said in an interview Monday that the appointment of Vance was a ‘disaster’ for Ukraine — and by extension for the European Union, which has backed Kyiv as it defends itself against Russian aggression…

“Vance played a central role in the effort to kill off a Ukraine aid bill earlier this year in the Senate…

“Vance’s Trump-style, America-first foreign policy extends to more general critiques of Europe and NATO as well.”

Mediaite: “J.D. Vance Calls Depriving Ukraine of Aid His Second Biggest Priority in Senate”

Ohio Capital Journal: “Ohio senator J.D. Vance accused of playing Putin’s game”

The Hill: “Vance promoted Trump’s ‘America First’ foreign policy at the Munich Security Conference in February…”