Trump unfit for White House, says Hewlett Packard chief

Trump unfit for White House, says Hewlett Packard chief

Monday, February 29, 2016 8:09 am


 Donald Trump: simply unfit to lead USA, says Hewlett Packard chief

Donald Trump: simply unfit to lead USA, says Hewlett Packard chief

US Republican frontrunner, Donald Trump, may be picking more high profile endorsements of Republican notables, hours to Super Tuesday, but a woman has told him a piece of her mind.

Meg Whitman, the head of technology firm Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co , said on Sunday that Donald Trump was “unfit” for the U.S. presidency, and criticised New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, whose failed presidential bid she supported, for endorsing him.

Trump’s insurgent campaign has riven the Republican Party, with party leaders openly discussing how to thwart the will of the tens of thousands of members who have voted for Trump, helping him comfortably win in three of the four states that have so far held nominating contests.

Meg Whitman: blasts Trump

Meg Whitman: blasts Trump

Party leaders are nervous that Trump, a billionaire real-estate developer from New York City who deviates from some of the central tenets of Republican conservatism, may alienate voters if he is their candidate in the Nov. 8 general election. He has proposed banning Muslims from entering the United States and declined a journalist’s invitation on Sunday to condemn the Ku Klux Klan, the violent white-supremacist group.

Christie, who scrapped his own presidential bid earlier this month, became the most prominent Republican figure to break ranks with party leadership by endorsing Trump on Friday ahead of this week’s “Super Tuesday” contests, when voters in 11 states go to the polls.

Whitman, who was a co-chairwoman of the national finance committee of Christie’s campaign, said in a statement to reporters that Trump would take the country on “a dangerous journey” and that Christie was aware of this.

“Chris Christie’s endorsement of Donald Trump is an astonishing display of political opportunism. Donald Trump is unfit to be president”, said the statement from Whitman, who is chief executive and president of Hewlett Packard Enterprise and chairman of HP Inc.

She called on Christie’s donors not to follow him to Trump, who has predominantly funded his campaign with personal loans. Representatives of Christie and Trump did not respond to requests for comment.

Trump’s later endorsement came from  Senator Jeff Sessions of Alabama, a leading conservative.

 


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