Former Fox News contributor calls Trump a 'draft dodger' who is 'playing with our troops'
Retired US Army Lt. Col. Ralph Peters, a former Russia analyst, railed against President Donald Trump over his decision to send as many as 15,000 troops to the US-Mexico border, and his anti-immigrant rhetoric.
"I want to take the president of the United States seriously," Peters said to during a CNN interview. "
But he manages to be at once an embarrassing fool and insidious menace."
Peters has not been shy about his assessments of presidential administrations from both political parties — in 2015, he was suspended from Fox News for two weeks after calling Obama "a total p---y."
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The president, who in my mind is a draft-dodger, playing with our troops," Peters said in reference to Trump's five military deferments. "This idea of sending 15,000 troops to the southern border right now, it's an election ploy."
Peters questioned Trump's motives, but he also suggested that the Democrats were partly to blame for the politically-charged debate on the so-called migrant caravan.
https://www.businessinsider.com/ralph-peters-on-trump-migrant-caravan-draft-dodger-fox-news-2018-11