James Hodgkinson, the DC Shooter, Has Himself to Blame for Electing Trump

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81. Yes and no. I don't have glowing praise for Kissinger, do you?

"It’s been a bit of a love fest between former secretaries of state Henry Kissinger and Hillary Clinton the past week. They shared a stage at the groundbreaking of the State Department’s new Diplomacy Center, Clinton wrote a glowing review of Kissinger’s new book, and then President Richard Nixon’s foreign policy adviser on Saturday offered an (almost) endorsement for a Clinton presidency.

Kissinger, a controversial figure in American diplomatic history, was asked during an NPR interview whether Clinton would make a good president.

“I know Hillary as a person. And as a personal friend, I would say yes, she’d be a good president,” Kissinger said. “But she’d put me under a great conflict of interest if she were a candidate because I intend to support the Republicans.”

>>>NPR reporter Scott Simon asked whether, putting partisan politics aside, Kissinger would be comfortable with a Clinton White House.

“Yes, I’d be comfortable with that president,” Kissinger said. But then he added, “You’ve just lost me I don’t know how many friends.”"<<<

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/in-the-loop/wp/2014/09/07/did-kissinger-endorse-clinton-for-president-almost/?utm_term=.7668b0c6552c

"Can Clinton corner Condi, Kissinger?

Winning more endorsements from wary GOP foreign policy experts presents a big opportunity.

By Nahal Toosi

08/08/2016 05:28 AM EDT

Updated 08/08/2016 05:00 PM EDT
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As Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign reaches out to Republicans alarmed by Donald Trump's national security blunders, there’s a group of high-profile GOP hold-outs whose endorsement would be a major coup if the Democrat could win them over.

Condoleezza Rice, James Baker, George Shultz and Henry Kissinger are among a handful of so-called Republican “elders” with foreign policy and national security experience — people who have held Cabinet-level or otherwise high-ranking positions in past administrations — who have yet to come out for or against Trump.

A person close to Clinton said her team has sent out feelers to the GOP elders, although it wasn't clear if those efforts were preliminary or more formal requests for endorsement, or if they were undertaken through intermediaries. Clinton campaign aides did not respond when asked if they had solicited endorsements or tried to persuade the elders to speak out against Trump. "
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/08/clinton-republican-elder-statesmen-kissinger-226680

There was an effort in Clinton's campaign to get "serious" Republicans to if not endorse her, to at least say that Trump would be worse. Part of the Old Guard's endless chase after "Reagan-Democrats" and the "Sensible Middle".