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   CNN special on Sunday night.  Will be worth watching.   
      
      
      
   CNN Fri October 16, 2020   
      
   Former White House chief of staff tells friends that Trump 'is the most flawed   
   person' he's ever met   
      
    (CNN)Former White House chief of staff, retired Marine Gen. John Kelly, has   
   told friends that President Donald Trump "is the most flawed person" he's ever   
   known.   
   "The depths of his dishonesty is just astounding to me. The dishonesty, the   
   transactional nature of every relationship, though it's more pathetic than   
   anything else. He is the most flawed person I have ever met in my life," the   
   retired Marine general has    
   told friends, CNN has learned.   
      
   The reporting comes from a new CNN special scheduled to air Sunday night, "The   
   Insiders: A Warning from Former Trump Officials," in which former senior   
   administration officials -- including former national security adviser John   
   Bolton, former Health and    
   Human Services scientist Rick Bright and former Department of Homeland   
   Security general counsel John Mitnick -- explain why they think the President   
   is unfit for office.   
      
   Kelly's sentiments about the President's transactional nature and dishonesty   
   have been shared by other former members of the Trump administration who also   
   appear in the special.   
      
   Olivia Troye, a former top adviser to Vice President Mike Pence, has said the   
   President knew about the impact the coronavirus pandemic would have on the US   
   by mid-February, but that "he didn't want to hear it, because his biggest   
   concern was that we were    
   in an election year." Miles Taylor, a former DHS chief of staff who now serves   
   as a CNN contributor, has asserted Trump essentially calls individuals within   
   the federal government who disagree with him "deep state."   
      
   Elizabeth Neumann, another former DHS official, had criticized Trump for not   
   condemning White supremacy after the first presidential debate in September.   
      
   "The fact that he continues to not be able to just point-blank say, 'I condemn   
   White supremacy.' It boggles the mind," she told CNN at the time.   
      
   Trump did say on Thursday during a town hall on NBC that he condemned White   
   supremacy. "I denounce White supremacy, OK?," Trump told NBC's Savannah   
   Guthrie. "I've denounced White supremacy for years."   
      
   The President sometimes is successfully cajoled to condemn White supremacists,   
   but often -- such as in the first presidential debate -- seems reluctant do   
   so, perhaps so as to not alienate any potential votes.   
      
   Kelly, who left the White House under contentious circumstances in January   
   2019, has occasionally voiced criticisms of the Trump administration since   
   leaving his post.   
      
   In June, in the wake of George Floyd's killing at the hands of Minneapolis   
   police and Trump's response to the subsequent protests and calls for racial   
   justice, Kelly said he agreed with former Secretary of Defense Gen. Jim   
   Mattis' stark warning that    
   Trump is "the first president in my lifetime who does not try to unite the   
   American people." Kelly said he would have cautioned Trump against the idea of   
   using law enforcement to clear Lafayette Square of protesters ahead of the   
   President's now infamous    
   photo op in front of a nearby church.   
      
   Kelly also defended retired Army Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman for raising   
   concerns about the President's call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr   
   Zelensky -- the call at the heart of the President's impeachment. And Kelly   
   has said he believes Bolton's    
   allegation that Trump conditioned US security aid to Ukraine on an   
   investigation into political rivals.   
      
   Kelly has said that before he left the White House, he cautioned Trump: "Don't   
   hire a 'yes man,' someone who won't tell you the truth. ... Because if you do,   
   I believe you will be impeached."   
      
   Since Kelly's departure, the White House and the President have maintained   
   that the former general wasn't cut out for his job in the West Wing.   
      
   "When I terminated John Kelly, which I couldn't do fast enough, he knew full   
   well that he was way over his head," Trump tweeted in February. "Being Chief   
   of Staff just wasn't for him. He came in with a bang, went out with a whimper,   
   but like so many X's,    
   he misses the action & just can't keep his mouth shut."   
      
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   Ya gotta laugh at someone like Trump saying that someone else "just can't keep   
   his mouth shut".     
      
      
   https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/16/politics/donald-trump-criticism-f   
   om-former-administration-officials/index.html   
      
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