Signer of Anti-Trump Letter Withdraws From Pentagon Think TankPatrick Cronin,
a liberal Republican China hand who signed a letter denouncing Donald Trump during the 2016 presidential campaign, on Friday
withdrew from taking a plum position as director of a Pentagon-funded think tank in Hawaii.
President Trump and the White House have taken a hard line on so-called never-Trump Republicans,
blocking several prominent former officials who held senior national security and foreign policy positions in previous administrations.
The anti-Trump letter that Cronin signed,
one of two signed by Republicans during the campaign, stated that "we are united in our opposition to a Donald Trump presidency."
"He is fundamentally dishonest," the letter stated, adding that the former officials are committed to "working energetically to prevent the election of someone so utterly unfitted to the office."
Trump dismissed the criticism during the campaign as the product of failed establishment officials and made clear
the opponents would not be appointed to positions in his administration.
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