"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 here.
"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 luad applause from the audience and shouting of slogans "Lock her up".
"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.
"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 Obamatrade - 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.
"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.
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