Susan Rice Calls Trump A ‘Give up Monkey’ For Attempting To Appease Putin On Ukraine

Former U.S. nationwide safety adviser Susan Rice delivered a damning critique Thursday of Donald Trump and his overseas coverage agenda for aiming to appease Russian President Vladimir Putin throughout the ongoing invasion of Ukraine.

“The fundamentals of national security — that America needs to be strong, that we need to stand with our allies, we need to stand for our values, we have to mean what we say … never used to be under serious question,” she advised MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell.

“And along comes Donald Trump, who really is like the Neville Chamberlain of the Republican Party,” Rice continued. “He’s an appeaser. He’s a surrender monkey. And that’s what we’re seeing in his approach to Ukraine.”

Chamberlain exercised a coverage of “appeasement” throughout his tenure as British prime minister within the years main as much as World Conflict II, in a failed try to stop Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler from increasing German management of Europe and waging conflict on the UK.

“We’ve seen him fold to blandishments from Xi Jinping and many others when it was convenient for him and served his personal interests,” Rice advised O’Donnell, referring to the numerous cases by which Trump has praised the Chinese language president from the White Home.

“So that is why more than 700 Democrats, Republicans and Independents — very senior national security leaders — came together to oppose Donald Trump and support [Vice President] Kamala Harris,” she continued, referring to an open letter printed final month.

The doc was signed by present and former protection officers, together with former protection secretaries Chuck Hagel and William Cohen — Republicans who served respectively beneath Democratic former Presidents Barack Obama and Invoice Clinton — in addition to ex-CIA director Michael Hayden.

Trump spokesperson Steven Cheung advised The New York Occasions that these had been “the same people who got our country into endless foreign wars and profited off of them while the American people suffered,”

Rice maintained that nationwide safety may very well be a bipartisan center floor.

“Until recently, foreign policy and national security were played between the 40-yard lines between Democrats and Republicans,” she advised O’Donnell. “There was a center that was a responsible, rational center.”

Rice concluded by emphasizing Harris “has the temperament and the intellect and the vision and the experience to be on day one an effective and strong commander-in-chief.”