Paul Wolfowitz, a former Bush advisor, says he’ll likely vote for Hillary Clinton
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Your support makes all the difference.Paul Wolfowitz, the former deputy secretary of defense under George W Bush, says that he might have to vote for Hillary Clinton to become the next president.
Mr Wolfowitz, who served the Bush administration from 2001-2005, told Der Spiegel that Republican nominee Donald Trump represents a security risk for the country and that his praise for Russian President Vladimir and Saddam Hussein is disturbing.
“The only way you can be comfortable about Trump's foreign policy is to think he doesn't really mean anything he says. That's a pretty uncomfortable place to be in,” he told the German newspaper. “Our security depends on having good relationships with our allies. Trump mainly shows contempt for them.”
Agreeing with the 50 former Republican security officials who have called Trump "dangerous," Wolfowitz ultimately admitted that he has no choice but to vote for Clinton.
“I wish there were somebody I could be comfortable voting for,” he continued. “I might have to vote for Hillary Clinton, even though I have big reservations about her.”
Wolfowitz served as deputy secretary leading up to and during the Iraq war, a regime Trump has been highly critical of since it began. Clinton, on the other hand. voted for the war, a point that has been widely criticized by her opponents.