Donald Trump vs. Will Hurd in 2024? A Black Texas Republican fights racism and the Big Lie
Will Hurd was once the future of the GOP. He still could be if Republicans can get past the Donald Trump-Ginni Thomas era of conspiracies and lies.
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- Will Hurd was once seen as the future of the GOP
- Could the ex-congressman, former CIA officer from Texas be a perfect candidate?
In his new book, then-CIA officer Will Hurd describes participating in a 2008 CIA briefing in Kabul, Afghanistan, for members of the House Select Committee on Intelligence. He overheard several of them pressing for time to go rug shopping. A congressman then asked Hurd why the Taliban wouldn’t coordinate with the Iranian Revolutionary Guard. He replied that one was Sunni and one was Shiite. What’s the difference? another lawmaker asked.
Hurd assumed he was about to make a joke. He was not. He really didn’t know the history of the long-running sectarian conflict.
“This should have been easy stuff for these Washington, D.C., intelligence ‘experts,’ ” Hurd writes. They were, after all, deciding how to spend billions in taxpayer money and whether to send U.S. troops to war zones.