Another neo-conservative has come out in support of Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris.
Just days after former Vice President Dick Cheney endorsed Kamala Harris as President, former Attorney General under the Bush Administration, Alberto Gonzales has announced he will also be voting for Kamala Harris in November.
Gonzales said, “I can’t sit quietly as Donald Trump—perhaps the most serious threat to the rule of law in a generation—eyes a return to the White House.”
Gonzales added, “For that reason, though I’m a Republican, I’ve decided to support Kamala Harris for president.”
During his time as Attorney General, Gonzales’ appointment was surrounded by controversy due to being one of the architects of the Bush administration’s CIA torture program.
According to Wikipedia, Attorney General Gonzales helped pave the way for the Bush admin to obtain “warrantless surveillance of U.S. citizens and the legal authorization of “enhanced interrogation techniques”, later generally acknowledged as constituting torture, in the U.S. government’s post-9/11 War on Terror.”
Torture Memo Alberto Gonzales. That’s a name I didn’t ever expect to see again. Let alone having people tout him as someone on your side. Democrats can keep him!
— Cernovich (@Cernovich) September 12, 2024
Per The Guardian:
Alberto Gonzales, a Republican attorney general under the George W Bush administration, has announced his endorsement of Kamala Harris.
“As the United States approaches a critical election, I can’t sit quietly as Donald Trump – perhaps the most serious threat to the rule of law in a generation – eyes a return to the White House,” Gonzales, who served as the US’s 80th attorney general from 2005 to 2007, wrote in an article for Politico.
“For that reason, though I’m a Republican, I’ve decided to support Kamala Harris for president.”
Gonzales said Trump’s actions contravened “fidelity to the rule of law”, including the then president’s involvement in the January 6 insurrection on Capitol Hill.
Here you are in 2007, criticizing Alberto Gonzales, noting “questions continue” regarding “his support for wiretaps and whether he condones some forms of torture.”
“What started as an American success story had turned into a very public fall from grace.”
Now forgiven? https://t.co/w9LHoCJcFV pic.twitter.com/hOrEgk5f1a
— James R. Lawrence III (@jlawrencenc) September 13, 2024
