We are former national security and senior officials who served during the administrations of
Presidents Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, George W. Bush, and/or Donald Trump, or as
Republican Members of Congress or Senior Congressional Staff members. We proudly endorse
the re-election of Donald J. Trump. President Trump has brought a badly needed realism to
American national security policy that puts the prosperity and security of the American people
first.
President Trump has pursued a strong foreign and national security policy in America’s national
interests. He has imposed the toughest sanctions in history against China, Iran, North Korea,
and Russia. He also has persuaded our closest friends and allies to start living up to their
commitments to our mutual security. Thanks to President Trump’s personal diplomacy,
America’s NATO allies already have dedicated $130 billion to our shared defense and pledge to
spend $400 billion through 2024. US troops stationed in Germany are being brought home on
the 75th anniversary of the end of WWII or moved to Poland, and our military is refocusing on
the theater of greatest 21st Century concern: East Asia. South Korea also has increased its
spending to support U.S. troops deployed on the peninsula. In the critical new theater of space,
Trump created the newest branch of our Armed Forces to address these threats, the U.S. Space
Force, while closing the gap in space in the dual threats of Chinese and Russian hypersonic
weapons and anti-satellite technology.
President Trump has connected U.S. diplomacy with concrete results for Americans and our
allies and partners. He has upgraded the North American Free Trade Agreement into the more
modern and U.S.-friendly, US-Mexico-Canada Agreement. The Trump Administration’s
deregulation of American energy has turned the U.S. into a net exporter of oil and gas, which
weakens Russia, Venezuela and Iran and gives the USA a freer hand in international affairs. The
Trump Administration brokered the “Abraham Accords,” establishing diplomatic and business
relations between Israel and the United Arab Emirates. The August 2020 announcement at the
White House was followed a month later by a similar diplomatic breakthrough between Israel
and Bahrain. For these initiatives, as well as negotiating a business and commerce thaw
between Serbia and Kosovo, President Trump has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.
In addition to these peace treaties between Israel and the Gulf states, the Trump
Administration has weakened a perennial American antagonist, which is also the country that
relentlessly demands Israel’s annihilation: Iran. Iran is bankrupt, isolated, suffers both
economically and militarily, and still reels from President Trump’s decision to take out its most
powerful, terror-commanding general, Qasem Soleimani. Iran’s march to a nuclear weapons
capability, identified by the United Nations International Atomic Energy Agency in June as being
unverifiable and beyond monitoring, has been set back significantly by President Trump’s direct
actions: economic sanctions, diplomatic isolation, and covert operations.
More than any previous president, Donald Trump holds China accountable for their predatory
trade practices, their systematic incarceration of Muslim and Christian minorities, their theft of
land and resources across the South and East China Seas, their corrupt practices in their Belt
and Road Initiative, and looting of the free world’s intellectual property. He has reversed the
seemingly inexorable spread of Huawei’s 5G technology and software. President Trump is
putting massive pressure on China to join tri-lateral nuclear arms limitation talks with Russia.
China, which some analysts estimate already has thousands of nuclear weapons, must not be
allowed to continue this march unabated. Finally, China must pay a steep price for its lies and
foot-dragging as COVID-19 roared out of Wuhan and unleashed a deadly plague upon the
world.
We also believe that a president’s duty and loyalty are owed, first and foremost, to the
American people, and not the international community, which is consistent with strengthening
our alliances and friendships. For all of these reasons, we have concluded, that Donald J. Trump
should be re-elected as President of the United States. To that end, and in the best interest of
our nation and all Americans, we proudly will vote for him.