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Colin Powell Suggests Trump Is Supporting ‘Another Country’ By Playing Footsie With The Confederacy

Former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Colin Powell on Sunday revealed that he supports the renaming of bases that honor Confederate generals.

Former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Colin Powell on Sunday revealed that he supports the renaming of bases that honor Confederate generals.

During an interview on CBS, host Margaret Brennan asked Powell if the country is too divided to address systemic racism.

“We’re a much better nation now,” Powell explained. “We’re living better than we did then. But there’s more to be done. There are more youngsters that have to be educated, there are more adults that have to be educated. We have to fix the economic system.” Continue reading.

Colin Powell: Trump ‘lies all the time’

He also says Trump is not following the Constitution.

Former Secretary of State Colin Powell called on voters not to reelect President Donald Trump this fall — saying it’s time to make America better for all people, not just a few.

“I think he has not been an effective president,” Powell told CNN’s Jake Tapper in an interview Sunday morning. “He lies all the time. He began lying the day of inauguration, when we got into an argument about the size of the crowd that was there. People are writing books about this favorite thing of lying. And I don’t think that’s in our interest.”

“Every American citizen has to sit down, think it through and make a decision on their own,” he added on “State of the Union.“ “Don’t listen to everybody out there. Don’t read every newspaper. Think it through. Use your common sense and say, ‘Is this good for my country?’ before you say, ‘This is good for me.'” Continue reading.

Colin Powell: The Republican Party Needs to ‘Get a Grip on Itself’

Former secretary of state Colin Powell said the Republican Party needs to “get a grip on itself.” “Right now Republican leaders and members of the Congress, both Senate and the House, are holding back because they’re terrified of what will happen to any one of them if they speak out,” he told CNN’s Fareed Zakaria during an interview at the New Albany Community Foundation in Ohio, referring to President Trump’s behavior and the impeachment inquiry. Powell, who served as national security adviser to President Reagan and secretary of state under President George W. Bush, then touched on the recent debacle between Trump and the National Weather Service, when Republicans backed the president’s inaccurate rendering of a hurricane projection map. “In my time… one of us would have gone to the president and said ‘Mr. President, you screwed up,’” Powell said. “… This is not the way the country is supposed to run… And Congress is one of the institutions that should be doing something about this.”

View the complete October 6 article by Audrey McNamara on the Daily Beast website here.