More than 100 former Republican officials back Harris over Trump in damning letter

A group of more than 100 prominent former officials who served in Republican administrations have endorsed Kamala Harris, in a scathing letter that claims Donald Trump is “unfit to serve again as President, or indeed in any office of public trust.”

The letter, obtained by The New York Times, counts signatories including former defense secretaries Chuck Hagel and William Cohen; former C.I.A. directors Michael Hayden and William Webster; and former Trump administration officials Miles Taylor and Olivia Troye, among others.

The signatories admit they probably disagree with Harris on a number of issues but argue that Donald Trump’s affinity for strongmen and behavior on January 6 disqualifies him from serving again.

“As President, he promoted daily chaos in government, praised our enemies and undermined our allies, politicized the military and disparaged our veterans, prioritized his personal interest above American interests, and betrayed our values, democracy, and this country’s founding documents,” the letter reads.

The GOP officials praised Harris for stated positions on defending Israel, supporting NATO, and sending more agents to the US-Mexico border.

“These are the same people who got our country into endless foreign wars and profited off of them while the American people suffered,” Trump campaign official Steven Cheung told The Independent via email. “President Trump is the only President in the modern era not to get our country into any new wars.”

Many prominent anti-Trump Republicans have thrown their support behind the Harris campaign.

Former U.S. representative Liz Cheney, one of Trump’s sharpest (and only) GOP critics in Congress, announced earlier this month she’d be voting for Harris — as would her father,