{"id":3594,"date":"2026-07-19T19:39:56","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T19:39:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=3594"},"modified":"2026-07-19T19:39:56","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T19:39:56","slug":"ex-gop-adviser-trump-is-a-fool-with-blood-on-his-hands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=3594","title":{"rendered":"Ex-GOP adviser: Trump is &#8216;a fool&#8217; with blood on his hands"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The Iran war is already controversial, as it has taken a toll on the US economy and was opposed by most Americans from the beginning. President Donald Trump has blood on his hands by waging the Iran war without any seeming purpose, at least according to a Republican who advised the previous GOP president, George W. Bush.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=3592\">Solid-red state turning on Republicans over cancer-causing water: report<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cTwo more Americans are dead,\u201d Steve Schmidt, a former adviser to President George W. Bush, wrote on his Substack on Sunday. \u201cThat fact stands apart from politics. It can\u2019t be explained away by speeches, obscured by patriotic slogans, or redeemed by presidential bravado. Two American families have entered a fraternity of grief that no one chooses to join. Their loss is permanent. The decisions that led to it demand scrutiny.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added, \u201cThis is Donald Trump\u2019s war. No one compelled him to widen this conflict. No one forced him to make the judgment that military escalation best served the national interest. Those were presidential decisions. In the American system, the authority to commit military force carries with it the obligation to answer for the consequences. Every commander in chief owns the wars he begins, and every commander in chief owns the burden of explaining why Americans are asked to fight, to bleed and, sometimes, to die.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Schmidt went on to accuse Trump of waging the war in Iran without any clear mission or plan for victory. As a result, he characterized the loss of American lives as immoral rather than merely tragic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe office of the presidency is the greatest public trust ever bestowed by a free people,\u201d Schmidt argued. \u201cIt grants one individual the authority to send young Americans into mortal danger. No responsibility in our constitutional system is more profound. None requires greater humility. None permits less vanity.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=3591\">WSJ columnist: Trump\u2019s Big Lie ignores a blatant double-standard<\/a><\/p>\n<p>He added, \u201cHistory is unmoved by rhetoric. It asks only a handful of questions. Was the country safer? Was the cause necessary? Were the sacrifices justified? Could wiser judgment have prevented the loss? Those questions aren\u2019t answered at campaign rallies. They\u2019re answered in military cemeteries. They\u2019re answered in rehabilitation wards. They\u2019re answered in the quiet grief of Gold Star families. Two more Americans are dead. The burden of proof belongs to the men who led them into this war.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Schmidt concluded, \u201cDonald Trump and Pete Hegseth have yet to carry it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ever since the Iran war commenced, Schmidt has been one of the most prominent conservative voices denouncing it. For example, in April, he noted that the war is directly responsible for many of the economic problems facing Americans.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe economy is in free fall \u2014 it&#8217;s in a state of collapse,\u201d Schmidt posted on X at the time. \u201cThere are fuel shortages all over the world, and diesel is $7 a gallon. In California, there will be food shortages because fertilizer can&#8217;t make it through the Strait of Hormuz, and neither can hydrogen or helium, or dozens of other precursor agents that are necessary to sustain the global economy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=3589\">Ex-Trump official exposes the \u2018structural problem\u2019 that keeps MAGA in power<\/a><\/p>\n<p>He added, \u201cThis is a lost war led by a fool.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Iran war is already controversial, as it has taken a toll on the US economy and was opposed by most Americans from the beginning. 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