“I’ll be voting for Hillary Clinton," Hank Paulson said. | Getty Former Bush Treasury secretary: 'I'll be voting for Hillary Clinton'

There goes another one.

Hank Paulson, chairman of the Paulson Institute and a former Treasury secretary in George W. Bush’s administration, will neither vote for Donald Trump in November nor abstain, he wrote in an op-ed published Friday in The Washington Post.


“I’ll be voting for Hillary Clinton with the hope that she can bring Americans together to do the things necessary to strengthen our economy, our environment and our place in the world,” Paulson wrote. “To my Republican friends: I know I’m not alone.”

Paulson is the latest George W. Bush administration official to not only reject the Republican Party’s presumptive presidential nominee, but to declare support for Clinton. Former Bush Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage told POLITICO last week he would vote for Clinton.

With Trump as the party’s standard-bearer, “we are witnessing a populist hijacking of one of the United States’ great political parties,” the former Goldman Sachs CEO wrote. “The GOP, in putting Trump at the top of the ticket, is endorsing a brand of populism rooted in ignorance, prejudice, fear and isolationism. This troubles me deeply as a Republican, but it troubles me even more as an American. Enough is enough. It’s time to put country before party and say it together: Never Trump.”

Paulson suggested that Trump’s pledge to do for America what he’s done for his businesses isn’t a promise but rather a threat. “The tactics he has used in running his business wouldn’t work in running a truly successful company, let alone the most powerful nation on Earth,” he continued. “Every good businessman or -woman carefully analyzes all the available facts before making a decision. Trump repeatedly, blatantly and knowingly makes up or gravely distorts facts to support his positions or create populist divisions.”

Paulson blasted Trump’s business acumen, highlighting his bankruptcy filings, accusing him of exaggerating his wealth and arguing that his marketing and self-promotion are irrelevant to running a country. He also slammed the real estate mogul’s divisive rhetoric, questioning how such a polarizing figure could unite the country.

“Simply put, a Trump presidency is unthinkable,” he wrote, though he maintained that he plans to support conservatives in statehouses and Congress.

“They have a big job to do to reinvent and revitalize the Republican Party. They can do so by responding to the fears and frustrations of the American people and uniting them behind some common aspirations, while staying constant to the principles that have made our country great,” he added. “When it comes to the presidency, I will not vote for Donald Trump.”