Former Defense Secretary: Trump Claim ‘Makes Us Vulnerable’
Leon Panetta says when President Trump issues allegations without evidence, “it makes us vulnerable and it makes us weaker to our enemies.” pic.twitter.com/V1KaSn4HrQ
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On Sunday, Former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta raised major concerns about Donald Trump’s baseless claims that former President Barack Obama wiretapped Trump Tower before the election.
“Every time these things happen, every time he tweets, every time these issues come up that indicate that there’s obviously something to this Russian issue and the administration is not cooperating,” Panetta said on CBS’s “Face The Nation.”
“When that happens, when he accuses a past president of wiretapping without any evidence of that being the case, it makes us vulnerable. It weakens the United States and it makes us vulnerable to our enemies. That’s the danger.”
Panetta said that Donald Trump is “sending a terrible message out there.”
Panetta continued by noting that the people he’s talked to abroad are “very concerned” about the new administration and Donald Trump.
“They’re concerned about whether he truly is going to be committed to the kind of world leadership that we’ve seen the United States provide,” he said.
