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Colin Power turns his back on Republican Party because of Trump
Former US Secretary of State Colin Powell says he no longer considers himself a Republican in the wake of recent events.
The 83-year-old politician, who was US Secretary of State in the first administration of George W. Bush, believes that the deadly attack on the US Congress building two weeks ago by Donald Trump supporters was instigated by the outgoing president.
Powell criticized what he called Republican support for Trump’s behavior in an interview with CNN on Sunday.
“The Republicans supported Mr. Trump, and that’s why I no longer consider myself a Republican,” he said.
Powell was the first black secretary of state and the first black chief of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
A longtime and influential figure in the Republican Party (before these developments), he was a critic of Donald Trump and voted for Joe Biden in the US presidential election last year.
Powell told Farid Zakaria of CNN that he no longer considered himself a member of any party, but merely an ordinary citizen.