Part of the list of former military commanders endorsing Democratic Presidential nominee Joe Biden is retired four-star Air Force General Chuck Boyd, a former prisoner of war who spent seven years in a POW camp during the Vietnam War.
“I think the point at which he began telling the American people that the election process itself was fraudulent, that mail-in balloting was a disaster, was terrible,” Boyd said in an interview with NPR. “I thought if our citizens lose faith in how they go about electing their leaders, then democracy itself is at risk, at deep risk. That’s the point at which I said I’ve got to get involved in this in some way.”
Boyd noted that a long-time goal of Russia and Russian president Vladimir Putin was to foster American distrust in our democracy, our government and our voting system. Trump, he says, has exponentially accomplished that. This also shakes the confidence our allies have in our government.
“What really worries me — and this is one of the objectives of the Russians for a long time — is to cause people to lose faith in democratic processes,” said Boyd. “A lot of other countries, fragile democracies, look to the United States as an example of democracy in action. And when they see our democratic processes not functioning, then I think other nations lose faith in their own process.”