Column cherry-picks Trump national security critics

This article originally appeared in the Washington Times on May 28, 2024

Washington Post columnist and MSNBC contributor Jennifer Rubin is one of the more tiresome Trump critics, writing several columns a week full of knee-jerk attacks on former President Donald Trump and shameless cheerleading for President Biden. Ms. Rubin’s columns are a bizarro world where the Trump administration had no accomplishments, no rational person can support Mr. Trump, and Mr. Biden is a brilliant and successful president.

Her recent Post column “Take it from conservative national security experts: Trump is unfit” is a new low.

In this column, Ms. Rubin tries to piece together a narrative that Mr. Trump is a threat to global security by quoting two former Trump administration officials — former national security adviser John Bolton and former White House chief of staff John Kelly — as well as Robert Gates, who served as secretary of defense for Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama and CIA director for President George H.W. Bush.

Read the full op-ed in the Washington Times here.