Powell first top Republican to support Joe Biden | Abroad

Powell, who served two Presidents Bush, finds Trump “useless,” saying that it has only gotten worse since taking office. On CNN, he called the president “a threat to our democracy, a threat to our country,” saying Trump “is lying all the time.”

Powell also feels that Trump is not exactly binding in the protests that arose after the Minneapolis police brutality that black George Floyd took his life. According to him, Trump’s actions lead to great controversy. “This massive protest shows that the country is starting to get the hang of it and we’re not going to take it anymore,” said Powell. He was the first black American to hold the highest military post of Armed Forces Commander from 1989 to 1993.

On Twitter, Trump reacted angrily to Powell’s move. “Colin Powell, a real dead man who was responsible for participating in the catastrophic wars in the Middle East, has just announced that he will vote for the other dead, Sleepy Joe Biden. Didn’t Powell say Iraq had “weapons of mass destruction”? That was not the case, but there we went into war! ”

It is not the first time Powell has supported a Democratic candidate and not a Republican. For example, in 2008 and 2012 he expressed his support for Barack Obama, who won both times. In 2008, it came at the expense of Republican candidate John McCain, four years later from Mitt Romney. In 2016, Powell rallied Democrat Hillary Clinton and not Donald Trump.

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