Iran Press/America: The US ex-secretary of state and military commander Colin Powell endorsed Democratic former US vice-president Joe Biden on Sunday, becoming the first major Republican to publicly back Donald Trump’s rival ahead of November’s election.
After a week in which the US President Donald Trump threatened to use military force against protesters, Colin Powell and other retired military leaders blasted the commander-in-chief for taking steps they say will harm the relationship between the military and US citizens.
Powell, who led the US military during the 1991 war in Iraq under Republican former US President George HW Bush and later led the Department of State under George W Bush, said Trump has “drifted away” from the US Constitution and posed a danger to the country.
Powell is the latest former top military officer to rebuke Trump in the wake of sweeping mass protests aimed at fighting racial injustice spurred by the 25 May death of an unarmed black man in Minnesota.
Former US defense secretary Jim Mattis and other retired officers have condemned Trump in recent days in a rare rebuke.
The death of George Floyd, 46, a black man who died on 25 May after he was pinned down by a white Minnesota police officer, has sparked outrage and protests in Minneapolis, across the United States, and around the world and highlight some old problems which have plagued the United States for ages; human rights violation, police brutality and racism especially against African Americans.
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