Trump蘑菇视频 long line of detractors keeps growing
Nobody seems to be as liked but disliked or loved but hated as much as Donald Trump.
His hold on the Republican Party is never in dispute. He’s simply a rock star to many Republicans.
He’s also created a long list of enemies among the many people who’ve worked for and with him over the years.
He recently reignited a controversy when he attacked his chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Mark Milley.
By claiming Milley has engaged in treasonous behavior – punishable by death – Trump set off a firestorm of controversy.
(Trump had made the claims in the past. But since Milley is entering retirement, he’s making them more forcefully now.)
The recent criticism provoked one of Trump’s White House chiefs of staff, John Kelly, to reveal what many people already knew – he has little respect for his former boss.
Kelly unloaded on Trump to CNN’s Jake Tapper.
He called Trump “a person that has no idea what America stands for and has no idea what America all about is. A person who cavalierly suggests that a selfless warrior who has served his country for 40 years in peacetime and war should lose his life for treason.”
Kelly was just getting started. He told Tapper that he’d been present when Trump showed little respect for this country’s fallen warriors.
Kelly told him that Trump is “a person that thinks those who defend their country in uniform, or are shot down or seriously wounded in combat, or spend years being tortured as POWs are all ‘suckers’ because ‘there is nothing in it for them.'”
Kelly would naturally dispute Trump’s off-handed criticism of the people who’ve fought, were injured, or died fighting for this country.
His son, 1st Lt. Robert Michael Kelly was killed in action in Afghanistan in 2010.
So, when Trump exhibited his lack of decency regarding the nation’s military, Kelly had one conclusion: “There is nothing more that can be said. God help us.”
Uniontown’s Mark Esper, Trump’s Secretary of Defense, has been no less critical of Trump. In his book, “A Sacred Oath,” he claimed Trump is “unfit for office because he puts himself first and I think anybody running for office should put the country first.”
At one time, you may have thought U.S. Attorney General William Barr and Donald Trump were joined at the political hip.
Not anymore.
Barr has claimed that Trump has “become detached from reality.”
John Bolton served as Trump’s national security adviser from April 2018 until September 2019. He, too, has some unkind things to say about Trump.
“It appalls me that he could be elected president again. He did damage in his first term. It has largely been repaired. But if he were elected to a second term, this time he might do damage that may be irreparable,” Bolton said recently.
It seems a little odd that there are so few former members of the administrations of other presidents who’ve been so critical of them.
I’ve never seen an array of people from the administrations of George W. Bush, Barack Obama, or Bill Clinton lining up to take verbal shots at their respective presidents.
Trump stands alone as a president in having a parade of detractors eagerly lining up to vent about the lack of presidential suitability.
Trump’s second national security adviser, H.R. McMaster, said, “We saw the absence of leadership, really anti-leadership, and what that can do to our country.”
Said Stephanie Grisham, Trump’s former White House communications director (from July 2019 until April 2020, as well as White House press secretary from July 2019 until April 2020, “I am terrified of him running in 2024.”
Cassidy Hutchinson, aide to White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows in her book, “Enough,” wrote, “I think that Donald Trump is the most grave threat we will face to our democracy in our lifetime, and potentially in American history.”
And finally, Trump’s longtime attorney and fixer, Michael Cohen, said, “Donald’s an idiot.”
Succinct, but common among ex-Trump associates.
Edward A. Owens is a multi-Emmy Award winner, former reporter, and anchor for Entertainment Tonight, and 50-year TV news and newspaper veteran. E-mail him at freedoms@bellatlantic.net.