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Kamala Harris
What They Think of Trump Now
The world has never before witnessed so many former top U.S. government officials warning about the president for whom they once worked. Not in these numbers and not with the same stark conclusion that President Trump in their view is unfit for the office he holds. The office he's asking you to return him to for a second term.
--Jake Tapper, CNN 10/18/20
Many of the following testimonials come from the CNN special
"The Insiders, A Warning from Former Trump Officials."
Click the button below for a transcript of the program
!["...the former president is certainly an authoritarian, admires people who are dictators. So he certainly falls into the general definition of fascist, for sure. He certainly prefers the dictator approach to government. I think he'd love to be just like he was in business--he could tell people to do things and they would do it, and not really bother too much about whether what the legalities were." --The New York Times 10/22/24 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpOYHQRPRIw
"[Trump's] dishonesty, the transactional nature of every relationship...it's more pathetic than anything else. He is the most flawed person I have ever met in my life."
--CNN 10/16/20
"A person that has nothing but contempt for our democratic institutions, our Constitution and the rule of law. There is nothing more that can be said. God help us."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfVQcMM1fK4 --CNN 10/3/23](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/6ed34f_c93e79b9cd6d4825a7a6c58a5d4c812a~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_163,h_181,al_c,q_80,usm_0.66_1.00_0.01,enc_avif,quality_auto/Image-empty-state.jpg)
John Kelly
White House Chief of Staff (2nd of 4)
"...the former president is certainly an authoritarian, admires people who are dictators. So he certainly falls into the general definition of fascist, for sure. He certainly prefers the dictator approach to government. I think he'd love to be just like he was in business--he could tell people to do things and they would do it, and not really bother too much about whether what the legalities were." --The New York Times 10/22/24 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpOYHQRPRIw
"[Trump's] dishonesty, the transactional nature of every relationship...it's more pathetic than anything else. He is the most flawed person I have ever met in my life."
--CNN 10/16/20
"A person that has nothing but contempt for our democratic institutions, our Constitution and the rule of law. There is nothing more that can be said. God help us."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfVQcMM1fK4 --CNN 10/3/23
Mike Pence
Vice President
"January 6th was a tragic day in the life of our nation. On that fateful day President Trump's words were reckless and endangered my family and everyone at the Capitol. But on that day President Trump also demanded that I choose between him and the Constitution. I believe that anyone that puts themselves over the Constitution should never be president of the United States and anyone who asks someone else to put them over the Constitution should never be president of the United States again." --C-SPAN 6/7/2023
"It should come as no surprise that I will not be endorsing Donald Trump." --Fox News 3/15/2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVfN5cAW7K0
!["I think [Trump] is unfit for office. He puts himself before country. His actions are all about him and not about the country. And then, I believe he has integrity and character issues as well." --CNN November 2022](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/6ed34f_1c7afabf79c54e6ea9512cb66ff29f06~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_163,h_181,al_c,q_80,usm_0.66_1.00_0.01,enc_avif,quality_auto/Image-empty-state.jpg)
Mark Esper
Sec'y of Defense (2nd of 3)
"I think [Trump] is unfit for office. He puts himself before country. His actions are all about him and not about the country. And then, I believe he has integrity and character issues as well." --CNN November 2022
!["Donald Trump will never understand [military] service the way those who have actually served in uniform will, and it's one of the countless reasons he's unfit to be commander in chief." --CNN
Click the link for Aidan McLaughlin's interview with Griffin on Mediaite's "Press Club" 6/14/24
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84T7lz3fMA4](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/6ed34f_a7288860641f46e289a55c7f0289ae6d~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_163,h_181,al_c,q_80,usm_0.66_1.00_0.01,enc_avif,quality_auto/Image-empty-state.jpg)
Alyssa Farah Griffin
White House Communications Director
"Donald Trump will never understand [military] service the way those who have actually served in uniform will, and it's one of the countless reasons he's unfit to be commander in chief." --CNN
Click the link for Aidan McLaughlin's interview with Griffin on Mediaite's "Press Club" 6/14/24
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84T7lz3fMA4
Kyle Murphy
Senior Analyst Defense Intelligence Agency
"I found a president who was uninterested in the challenges to U.S. national security, who was preoccupied with profit making and willing to betray the ideals of U.S. democracy and the rule of law in order to cozy up to dictators and sell weapons. This was an unserious leader who didn't understand the challenges and the opportunities that were before him.”
--CNN 10/18/20
Miles Taylor, Part 2
DHS Chief of Staff
Author of "Blowback, A Warning to Save Democracy from the Next Trump."
Click the first link for a January 2024 interview with Alex Witt on MSNBC:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBGte10OCwo
Click the second link for an April 2024 interview with Jim Lokay on Fox 5 Washington DC's "The Final 5"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G85Zdpno17E
!["President Trump refuses to admit that we have a problem [the pandemic]. He is in complete denial. And he forces everyone around him to buy in and repeat that narrative. [That's] what's causing more deaths today. He needs to admit the truth and be honest with Americans." --CNN 10/18/20](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/6ed34f_f7754662065f4a4ba1f288f32b0d6e44~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_163,h_181,al_c,q_80,enc_avif,quality_auto/Image-empty-state.jpg)
Rick Bright
Head of Biomedical Advanced Research & Development Authority
"President Trump refuses to admit that we have a problem [the pandemic]. He is in complete denial. And he forces everyone around him to buy in and repeat that narrative. [That's] what's causing more deaths today. He needs to admit the truth and be honest with Americans." --CNN 10/18/20
![“If the people don't have confidence in their government and how it works to serve them, then we're moving into dangerous places. If there's four more years of [Trump’s] self-centered, it's all about me and everything else is either part of a deep state or some sort of, you know, hoax, I worry about that confidence that's necessary for our democracy to continue.” --CNN 10/18/20](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/6ed34f_634f6044dd234ac48f8d63556a6a24c9~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_163,h_181,al_c,q_80,usm_0.66_1.00_0.01,enc_avif,quality_auto/Image-empty-state.jpg)
Robert Cardillo
Director National Geospatial Intelligence Agency
“If the people don't have confidence in their government and how it works to serve them, then we're moving into dangerous places. If there's four more years of [Trump’s] self-centered, it's all about me and everything else is either part of a deep state or some sort of, you know, hoax, I worry about that confidence that's necessary for our democracy to continue.” --CNN 10/18/20
Republican Voters Against Trump
Former Trump voters who now refuse to support him for president again.
"Donald Trump doesn't respect the Constitution!" -- "Trump hijacked the Republican Party!" -- "Trump doesn't care about this country!" -- "Trump is trying to be a king." -- "Trump is a narcissistic toddler!" __ "Trump's relationship with Putin bothers me." -- "I will support a Democrat over Trump any day of the week!"
https://www.youtube.com/@RepublicanVotersAgainstTrump/videos
![“Donald Trump is the first president in my lifetime who does not try to unite the American people—does not even pretend to try. Instead, he tries to divide us. We are witnessing the consequences of three years of this deliberate effort …without mature leadership.”
--June 2020
"[Trump's] use of the Presidency to destroy trust in our election and to poison our respect for fellow citizens has been enabled by pseudo political leaders whose names will live in infamy as profiles in cowardice.” --1/6/21](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/6ed34f_15f71f0007b141799a2090a474f3d597~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_163,h_181,al_c,lg_1,q_80,enc_avif,quality_auto/Image-empty-state.jpg)
James Mattis
Sec'y of Defense (1st of 3)
“Donald Trump is the first president in my lifetime who does not try to unite the American people—does not even pretend to try. Instead, he tries to divide us. We are witnessing the consequences of three years of this deliberate effort…without mature leadership.”
--June 2020
"[Trump's] use of the Presidency to destroy trust in our election and to poison our respect for fellow citizens has been enabled by pseudo political leaders whose names will live in infamy as profiles in cowardice.” --1/6/21
!["[Trump] is a consummate narcissist. And he constantly engages in reckless conduct. He will always put his own interest and gratifying his own ego ahead of everything else, including the country's interest. Our country can't be a therapy session for a troubled man like this."
--CBS June 2023
But Barr has since gone on to endorse Trump for President in 2024.](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/6ed34f_b63354a990184bb6857c6b77ed1a3d6a~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_163,h_181,al_c,q_80,usm_0.66_1.00_0.01,enc_avif,quality_auto/Image-empty-state.jpg)
Bill Barr
Attorney General (2nd of 2)
"[Trump] is a consummate narcissist. And he constantly engages in reckless conduct. He will always put his own interest and gratifying his own ego ahead of everything else, including the country's interest. Our country can't be a therapy session for a troubled man like this."
--CBS June 2023
But Barr has since gone on to endorse Trump for President in 2024.
!["[Trump] took an oath to protect our country from all enemies foreign and domestic. And right now, his rhetoric [not condemning white supremacy] is actually...aiding and abetting our enemies. He is absolutely in violation of his oath. And I think it walks up to the line if not crosses the line of treason in terms of making our country less safe." --CNN 10/18/20
"This is what a second term would be: There would be no adults in the room to say 'No Mr. President, you can't do that. That's illegal or that's unconstitutional.' It would just be utter chaos."
"The mafia culture around Trump is real. I have people in my life that were threatened, both kind of implied physical threats, but also...financial threats: 'We'll make sure you never work again.'"
--The Bulwark podcast 5/7/24](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/6ed34f_35e19a34161c43a18938a89d0954b9c9~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_163,h_181,al_c,lg_1,q_80,enc_avif,quality_auto/Image-empty-state.jpg)
Elizabeth Neumann
Assistant Sec'y Homeland Security
"[Trump] took an oath to protect our country from all enemies foreign and domestic. And right now, his rhetoric [not condemning white supremacy] is actually...aiding and abetting our enemies. He is absolutely in violation of his oath. And I think it walks up to the line if not crosses the line of treason in terms of making our country less safe." --CNN 10/18/20
"This is what a second term would be: There would be no adults in the room to say 'No Mr. President, you can't do that. That's illegal or that's unconstitutional.' It would just be utter chaos."
"The mafia culture around Trump is real. I have people in my life that were threatened, both kind of implied physical threats, but also...financial threats: 'We'll make sure you never work again.'"
--The Bulwark podcast 5/7/24
![“The president has not only disregarded this threat [of Russian interference in our elections], he has flagrantly disregarded this threat to the point that we were told by the White House not to raise issues about Russia with the president. We considered the threat from Russia and their interference in our democratic affairs to be one of the top three Homeland Security challenges facing the nation. ...You would be hard pressed to say that the president considered it anywhere in the top 25.”
--CNN 10/18/20](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/6ed34f_dd43afec0ee74367ab4ebbb8c07926f5~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_163,h_181,al_c,lg_1,q_80,enc_avif,quality_auto/Image-empty-state.jpg)
Miles Taylor
Chief of Staff Dept. Homeland Security
“The president has not only disregarded this threat [of Russian interference in our elections], he has flagrantly disregarded this threat to the point that we were told by the White House not to raise issues about Russia with the president. We considered the threat from Russia and their interference in our democratic affairs to be one of the top three Homeland Security challenges facing the nation. ...You would be hard pressed to say that the president considered it anywhere in the top 25.”
--CNN 10/18/20
John Mitnick
General Counsel Dept. Homeland Security
"During Donald Trump's presidency, the department was pushed to spend nearly all of the time on immigration border security issues...very important issues, but there were many other very vital functions Homeland Secuirty carries out to secure the nation. Those sometimes got short shrift." --CNN 10/18/20
"Voting for the other side is also hard. For most, it requires more than a mere preference—it requires a compelling reason or even a sense that there is no choice. In 2024, there is a compelling reason to vote for Biden. There is no real choice if the Constitution is to endure." --posting on X, 6/11/24
Cassidy Hutchison
White House aide
"Donald Trump is the most grave threat we will face to our democracy in our lifetime, and potentially in American history." --CNN
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