Former GOP official Michael Steele unfurled an epic rant bashing voters who would consider sending "incompetent" Donald Trump back to the White House.
The former president minimized brain injuries suffered by U.S. troops under his command during a 2020 missile attack by Iran on a base in Iraq, and the former Republican National Committee chairman told "Morning Joe" that was yet another example of Trump's lack of qualifications to be commander in chief.
"He is a fool, an incompetent individual who does not read even the briefings that he still gets as a former president on some of these things, so he'd at least have some workable knowledge of events there," Steele said. "He has to wait to be told what [Russian President Vladimir] Putin tells him to think about this affair because that's where his alliance, his allegiance is. The most galling and insulting part of this is to minimize the traumatic injuries to our servicemen and women who took the incoming barrage from Iranian missiles and who, as has been reported, have been – were denied their Purple Hearts as a consequence of that because the Pentagon was dancing around how not to offend the president because he didn't think it was that important – these were just headaches, these were minor injuries."
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"He didn't want – here's the galling part, he didn't want that stain on his administration, where something like this happened on his administration, on his watch, that our soldiers were injured in conflict," Steele added. "Now he wants to whitewash it and say, 'Oh, injured? What does injury mean? What does being injured mean?' Well, it means you get a Purple Heart for the services that you provided our country to protect and defend us on foreign soil, to represent our interest, to protect our interest. But that is a foreign concept to this man, and the country needs to wake itself up out of this stupor because this does not get better with him there. He will not solve these problems, he is the progenitor of these problems. He will be the focal point of the expansion of these problems, because they're unimportant to him."
The former Republican could not imagine why any voter would consider Trump over vice president Kamala Harris.
"You know, we're 30 some days out from an election in which half the country is looking to put this idiot back in office," Steele said. "Are you kidding me? Are you kidding me? This is the man who diminishes the – 'I don't want to go to that graveyard because there are dead soldiers there,' when he is in Europe, in France. You know, I think that John McCain's service, well, 'he got captured.' No appreciation of what that means, to have a soldier who gives up coming home because he didn't want to leave his fellow servicemen behind. I mean, this lack of appreciation is a stain on our country when it comes from a president, and I think y'all need to think about this long and hard because you think this is going to be somehow different, that the Middle East problems are going to go away as soon as Donald Trump is inaugurated? That Putin is going to sit back and go, 'You know what? Donald Trump is now president – oh my God, let me get out of Ukraine?'"
"Come on, stop being stupid, people," he added. "Get your head and get in the game, and understand what's about to happen. I mean, the warning signs have been there. The problem is in the house."
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