So Much For The ‘Candidate Of Peace’: Trump Fills Cabinet With Neoconservative Hawks
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Donald Trump’s national security adviser pick literally worked for Dick Cheney.
President-elect Donald Trump once again ran on promises to limit United States military intervention overseas, declaring in his victory speech, “I’m not going to start a war. I’m going to stop wars.”
Vice President-elect JD Vance dubbed him the “candidate of peace”; the Arab American leaders who backed Trump, in part due to outgoing President Joe Biden’s unquestioning support for Israel’s wars in Gaza and Lebanon, expressed confidence in the same.
But Trump’s selections for top national security and diplomatic posts in his administration significantly undercut those claims.
For the positions of secretary of state, national security adviser, United Nations ambassador, U.S. ambassador to Israel, and secretary of defense, Trump has picked a group of classic foreign policy hawks with ideological views that would be right at home in the same trigger-happy George W. Bush presidency that Trump criticized so heavily in 2016.
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Donald Trump’s national security adviser pick literally worked for Dick Cheney.
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