NORFOLK, Va. - The former Navy secretary who was fired after criticizing President Donald Trump endorsed Democrat Michael Bloomberg for president on Friday, saying the U.S. needs a leader with integrity who would have “a steady hand on the wheel.”Former Secretary of the Navy Richard V. Spencer announced the endorsement during a campaign event at a maritime centre and museum in Norfolk, Virginia. Spencer said he is a “lifelong Republican” who says he’s “tremendously concerned” that democracies around the world, and international alliances, are under threat. “I don’t care if you’re a Republican, you’re a Democrat or independent, if we are to sustain this experiment we call democracy, America needs the best leader available,“ Spencer said. “When a president places more faith in what he is told by Vladimir Putin than by his own director of national intelligence that’s a prescription for disaster,“ he said. Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, and he has spent more than $300 million of his own fortune to air television ads.

Source: thestar February 07, 2020 16:05 UTC