One other neo-conservative has come out in assist of Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris.
Simply days after former Vice President Dick Cheney endorsed Kamala Harris as President, former Lawyer Basic below the Bush Administration, Alberto Gonzales has introduced he may also be voting for Kamala Harris in November.
Gonzales mentioned, “I can’t sit quietly as Donald Trump—maybe essentially the most severe menace to the rule of legislation in a technology—eyes a return to the White Home.”
Gonzales added, “For that cause, although I’m a Republican, I’ve determined to assist Kamala Harris for president.”
Throughout his time as Lawyer Basic, Gonzales’ appointment was surrounded by controversy as a result of being one of many architects of the Bush administration’s CIA torture program.
In accordance with Wikipedia, Lawyer Basic Gonzales helped pave the best way for the Bush admin to acquire “warrantless surveillance of U.S. residents and the authorized authorization of “enhanced interrogation methods”, later typically acknowledged as constituting torture, within the U.S. authorities’s post-9/11 Warfare on Terror.”
Torture Memo Alberto Gonzales. That’s a reputation I didn’t ever anticipate to see once more. Not to mention having folks tout him as somebody in your facet. Democrats can preserve him!
— Cernovich (@Cernovich) September 12, 2024
Per The Guardian:
Alberto Gonzales, a Republican legal professional basic below the George W Bush administration, has introduced his endorsement of Kamala Harris.
“As the USA approaches a essential election, I can’t sit quietly as Donald Trump – maybe essentially the most severe menace to the rule of legislation in a technology – eyes a return to the White Home,” Gonzales, who served because the US’s eightieth legal professional basic from 2005 to 2007, wrote in an article for Politico.
“For that cause, although I’m a Republican, I’ve determined to assist Kamala Harris for president.”
Gonzales mentioned Trump’s actions contravened “constancy to the rule of legislation”, together with the then president’s involvement within the January 6 revolt on Capitol Hill.
Right here you might be in 2007, criticizing Alberto Gonzales, noting “questions proceed” relating to “his assist for wiretaps and whether or not he condones some types of torture.”
“What began as an American success story had become a really public fall from grace.”
Now forgiven? https://t.co/w9LHoCJcFV pic.twitter.com/hOrEgk5f1a
— James R. Lawrence III (@jlawrencenc) September 13, 2024