Top Republican leaders fire salvos at Hillary Clinton

Cleveland: Making a strong case against Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, top Republican leaders on Tuesday described her as a careless and dishonest person who has put America at extremely high risk. “I have called on Hillary Clinton to drop out of the race because she put our nation’s security at extremely high risk with her careless use of a private email server,” Lieutenant General (rtd) Michael Flynn said capping up hours of anti- Clinton rhetoric at the Republican National Convention. [caption id=“attachment_2894276” align=“alignleft” width=“380”]  Presumptive Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump (left) and presumptive Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. Reuters[/caption] “If I did a tenth of what she did, I would be in jail. Crooked Hillary Clinton – leave this race now!” he said amidst a loud applause from the audience and shouting of slogans “Lock her up”. Michael McCaul, Chairman of the Homeland Security Committee, alleged that Clinton is the architect of the “failed” foreign policy of the Obama Administration. “Today our allies no longer trust us, our adversaries no longer fear us, and our enemies are plotting against us. This did not happen by accident, it happened by design,” he said. “It is the work of Barack Obama——and the architect of his failed foreign policy, Hillary Clinton. For years they presided over America’s retreat. And the consequence is clear-leading from behind has led us into danger,” he said. Senator Jeff Sessions alleged that Clinton as president plans more taxes, more regulation, more immigration and more debt. “She has been a champion of globalist trade agreements. But the facts are in. They have not worked for our people,” he said. “When those agreements were signed, Presidents Clinton and Obama promised our dangerous trade deficits with China and Korea would be reduced. But, the deficit with China has increased five-fold and the deficit with Korea doubled. These are job-killing numbers. Worst of all, they are now pushing the disastrous 5,554-page Obama trade – the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement,” he added. Senator Joni Ernest alleged that Clinton cannot be trusted.“Her judgment and character are not suited to be sitting in the most powerful office in the world. She has already failed us too many times before,” she alleged. “Hillary Clinton has failed to stop the expansion of terrorism—her policies in Libya, Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria have created more safe havens for terrorism. Shockingly, she continues to support a policy that brings captured terrorists into our back yards. All of us up here believe that’s unacceptable,” she said. “She jeopardized our safety by deciding our laws don’t apply to her, setting up her own private e-mail server and then lying about how it was used,” Ernest alleged. “She has proven time and again that she is entirely unfit to serve our nation as Commander-in-Chief,” the Senator said. “And releasing terrorists will not end this war; on the contrary, it simply emboldens the terrorists and prolongs war. Under Barack Obama, we have no coherent strategy to protect our citizens, and under Hillary Clinton, it will be more of the same,” he said.