Susan Rice Calls Trump A ‘Surrender Monkey’ For Trying To Appease Putin On Ukraine

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

“The basics of nationwide safety — that America must be robust, that we have to stand with our allies, we have to stand for our values, we’ve got to imply what we are saying … by no means was once beneath critical query,” she advised MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell.

“And alongside comes Donald Trump, who actually is just like the Neville Chamberlain of the Republican Get together,” Rice continued. “He’s an appeaser. He’s a give up monkey. And that’s what we’re seeing in his method to Ukraine.”

Chamberlain exercised a coverage of “appeasement” throughout his tenure as British prime minister within the years main as much as World Warfare II, in a failed try to forestall 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 lots of others when it was handy for him and served his private pursuits,” Rice advised O’Donnell, referring to the numerous cases wherein Trump has praised the Chinese language president from the White Home.

“So that’s the reason greater than 700 Democrats, Republicans and Independents — very senior nationwide safety leaders — got here collectively to oppose Donald Trump and help [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 Instances that these had been “the identical individuals who received our nation into countless international wars and profited off of them whereas the American individuals suffered.”

Rice maintained that nationwide safety could possibly be a bipartisan center floor.

“Till lately, international coverage and nationwide safety had been performed between the 40-yard strains between Democrats and Republicans,” she advised O’Donnell. “There was a middle that was a accountable, rational heart.”

Rice concluded by emphasizing Harris “has the temperament and the mind and the imaginative and prescient and the expertise to be on day one an efficient and powerful commander-in-chief.”