McCain Backs Up Romney: Trump’s Foreign Policy Is ‘Dangerous’

UNITED STATES - NOVEMBER 10: Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., talks with reporters after the Senate luncheons in the Capitol, November 10, 2015. (Photo By Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call) (CQ Roll Call via AP Images)
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The two most recent Republican presidential nominees have no love for Donald Trump.

Sen. John McCain released a statement Thursday backing up a damning speech by Mitt Romney calling Trump a “phony” and a “failed candidate.”

In the statement, McCain, who serves as chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, called Trump’s statements on national security issues “uninformed and dangerous.”

“At a time when our world has never been more complex or more in danger, as we watch the threatening actions of a neo-imperial Russia, an assertive China, and expansionist Iran, an insane North Korean ruler, and terrorist movements that are metastasizing across the Middle East and Africa,” the statement read, “I want Republican voters to pay close attention to what our party’s most respected and knowledgeable leaders and national security experts are saying about Mr. Trump, and to think long and hard about who they want to be our next Commander-in-Chief and leader of the free world.”

Trump has criticized both former GOP nominees for failing to beat President Barack Obama in the 2008 and 2012 general elections, respectively.

Read McCain’s full statement, which he posted on his website, below:

“I share the concerns about Donald Trump that my friend and former Republican nominee, Mitt Romney, described in his speech today. I would also echo the many concerns about Mr. Trump’s uninformed and indeed dangerous statements on national security issues that have been raised by 65 Republican defense and foreign policy leaders.

“At a time when our world has never been more complex or more in danger, as we watch the threatening actions of a neo-imperial Russia, an assertive China, an expansionist Iran, an insane North Korean ruler, and terrorist movements that are metastasizing across the Middle East and Africa, I want Republican voters to pay close attention to what our party’s most respected and knowledgeable leaders and national security experts are saying about Mr. Trump, and to think long and hard about who they want to be our next Commander-in-Chief and leader of the free world.”

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  1. Trump: Why do we need to listen more of the same: Old Entitled White Guys. Give it up guys, you lost. Go back to FOX, Megyn will provide all you need.

  2. Guess the Establishment has decided this is ‘Piling-On Week’.

  3. Guess the Establishment has decided this is 'Piling-On Week'.

    otherwise known as POW

  4. TPM:

    In the statement, McCain, who serves as chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, called Trump’s statements on national security issues “uninformed and dangerous.”

    Okay, so how does that makes Trump different from any other GOPer, Sen. McCain? If you want to convince GOP primary voters not to support him, you’re going to have to come up with something better than complaining that Trump sounds like a Republican.

  5. So… two establishment losers beaten by President Obama piling on I-am-da-winner Trump. I bet he loves it.

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