Vulnerable GOP Sen.: Clinton Poses Bigger Threat To The U.S. Than Trump

Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Pa., speaks with members of the media during a news conference, Monday, May 9, 2016, in Philadelphia.  Toomey calls on Philadelphia to end its "sanctuary city" policy and begin cooperating with federal law enforcement officers in helping them find immigrants in the country illegally who are suspected of violent crimes. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Pa., speaks with members of the media during a news conference, Monday, May 9, 2016, in Philadelphia. Toomey calls on Philadelphia to end its "sanctuary city" policy and begin cooperating with fed... Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Pa., speaks with members of the media during a news conference, Monday, May 9, 2016, in Philadelphia. Toomey calls on Philadelphia to end its "sanctuary city" policy and begin cooperating with federal law enforcement officers in helping them find immigrants in the country illegally who are suspected of violent crimes. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke) MORE LESS

When asked on Thursday morning which presidential nominee poses a bigger threat to the United States security, Sen. Pat Toomey (R-PA) said that Hillary Clinton poses a bigger threat than Donald Trump, citing the former secretary of state’s foreign policy record.

“I’ve said Hillary Clinton is completely, permanently unacceptable. We have seen her in office. We have seen what she did. In addition to jeopardizing classified intimation that jeopardizes our security, we’ve seen the decisions that she has made, whether it’s in Libya, whether it is the incredibly failed Russian reset, whether it is, you know, lying to the families of the men who were killed at Benghazi,” he said on the Philadelphia radio station WPTH’s “Chris Stigall Show.”

“Point me in the direction of any place, anywhere in the world where our American interests are more safe and more secure today than they were when she became secretary of state. You can’t. Because that place doesn’t exist,” he continued. “Look, I’ve got real problems with things that Donald Trump has said on foreign policy, with regard to NATO, with regard to nuclear proliferation, but Hillary Clinton’s got a track record of disastrous foreign policy.”

Stigall asked Toomey who is more dangerous after noting that Sen. Mark Kirk (R-IL), another senator up for re-election in November, said on Wednesday that he thinks Clinton poses a bigger threat to the U.S. than Trump.

The senators’ comments follow a letter penned by 50 Republican national security experts who said they would not vote for Trump. They wrote that Trump has “alarmed” American allies with his “erratic behavior.” Over the past month, Trump has suggested he may not follow through with U.S. obligations to NATO allies and called on Russian hackers to release Clinton’s emails.

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  1. Avatar for meri meri says:

    There you go, buddy! You’re totally safe saying things like that in Mississippi.

    Oh. Pennsylvania? Oops. Better start walking that back…unless you just saw a really bad poll.

  2. And that’s all she wrote, folks. Say goodnight, Toomey!!

    And Mark Kirk said the same thing. Woooohooo!

  3. He’s a moron and a liar. He has decided that getting re-elected is more important than the country. For THAT Toomey, it’s time to step down. If you think that somehow you can ‘harness’ Trump if he is elected and let the ‘smart kids’ rule you are mistaken. I’m sure Germany thought the same thing…and yes, I WENT THERE PROUDLY.

  4. I’d say somebody’s rattled over his re-election chances.

  5. Avatar for bob bob says:

    If Sen. Pat Toomey thinks that Hillary Clinton poses a bigger threat to U.S. than Donald Trump, you can’t have a better reason why this man should lose his reelection bid.

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