[csusbpeace] Trump Bashes Colin Powell a Day After Death: 'A Classic RINO'
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Trump Can’t Help Himself, Lashes Out at Colin Powell
The former president is jealous of how the media is covering the late
Republican’s death
October 19, 2021
Former President Donald Trump speaks to supporters during a rally at the Iowa
State Fairgrounds on October 9th, 2021 in Des Moines, Iowa.
Getty Images
Donald Trump <https://www.rollingstone.com/t/donald-trump/> isn’t known for
his respect for the dead.
He continued to publicly bash
<https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/20/us/politics/trump-john-mccain.html> John
McCain after the Republican stalwart died in 2018. He attacked Rep. Debbie
Dingell (D-Mich.) in 2019 by implying her late husband John Dingell is in
hell
<https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/18/politics/trump-rally-john-dingell-hell/index.html>.
Now, the former president is lashing out at Colin Powell
<https://www.rollingstone.com/t/colin-powell/> the day after he died
<https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/colin-powell-dead-covid-19-1243526/>
from Covid-19 complications.
“Wonderful to see Colin Powell, who made big mistakes on Iraq and famously,
so-called weapons of mass destruction, be treated in death so beautifully by
the Fake News Media,” Trump wrote in a statement released Tuesday through his
Save America PAC. “Hope that happens to me someday. He was a classic RINO, if
even that, always being the first to attack other Republicans. He made plenty
of mistakes, but anyway, may he rest in peace!”
Trump’s vitriol toward Powell isn’t surprising. The late veteran of three
Republican presidential administrations had been fiercely critical of Trump,
and announced in June that he was voting for Joe Biden in the 2020 election.
“We have a Constitution,” Powell said at the time
<https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/colin-powell-calls-trump-liar-says-he-skirts-constitution-will-n1227016>.
“We have to follow that Constitution. And the president’s drifted away from
it.”
Trump responded by firing off multiple tweets calling Powell, among other
things, “a real stiff,” “so bad for the USA,” and “very responsible for
getting us into the disastrous Middle East Wars.”
Now is probably a good time to remember that, despite what he’s said since he
launched his presidential campaign, Trump very much supported the invasion of
Iraq
<https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/29/politics/fact-check-trump-false-claim-opposed-iraq-invasion/index.html>.
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