Elizabeth Neumann recently resigned her post as Assistant Secretary for Counterterrorism and Threat Prevention in the Trump Administration.
She is, first and foremost, she says, a follower of Jesus Christ. She says, "I voted for Trump in 2016, primarily because of the pro-life issue."
Her job at the Department of Homeland Security, involved monitoring threats to national security from domestic terrorism — increasingly, from 2017 on, the growing threat from White nationalists.
She says, plainly, the president’s rhetoric made her national security job harder. She says "The president's actions and his language are, in fact, racist. Things like, 'There are good people on both sides,' or 'Send them back where they came from' — those words gave permission to White supremacists to thing that what they were doing was permissible."
She says, "There were plans put in place for a pandemic for 15 years. When we started to see that a pandemic was on its way to our shores, in January, any number of experts told me we need to be executing on these plans. But from January until March 11th, what you saw instead was a number of good public servants attempting to do their jobs and the president telling them to stop, because he didn’t want the economy to tank and he didn’t want a distraction from his campaign."
"I’m sorry, Mr. President," she says, "You were hired to handle America’s worst day, and you’ve absolutely failed.
"I do not think," she says, "that we can afford four more years of President Trump.
"We are less safe today because of his leadership.
"We will continue to be less safe as long as he is in control.
"And, this year," she concludes, "I’ll be voting for Joe Biden."
From the Assistant Secretary for Counterterrorism and Threat Prevention, this is damning in the worst possible, yet in the clearest and most straightforward way. The president's actions have put the United States in harm's way, and eroded our international reputation as a dependable partner.
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