Former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld said Thursday that he’s not surprised that President George H.W. Bush plans to vote for former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in November.
“No,” Rumsfeld said on MSNBC when asked if he was surprised by the decision. “He’s up in years.”
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Rumsfeld repeated his answer after it was pointed out that Rumsfeld, 84, is also pretty old.
“But he’s up in years and he obviously comes from a totally different cut than Donald Trump,” Rumsfeld said of Bush, who is 92. “He gets his choice, and if that’s true he’s made his choice, then fine. He can go do what he wants to do.”
Rumsfeld, who served as defense secretary under George W. Bush and as chief of staff to Gerald Ford, plans to back Trump in November.
“I look at it and say, I don’t agree with either of them 100 percent of the time, but who do I think would be best for the country, and what do I think is acceptable, maybe not preferred, but acceptable, as opposed to what’s unacceptable, and I think truthfulness and believability and truthfulness is important.”
“I think he’s not untruthful,” Rumsfeld said when asked if Trump tells the truth. “And I think she is,” he added of Clinton.
