By Jeremy Herb, Jamie Gangel and Dan Merica, CNN
“He’s an idiot. It’s pointless to try to convince him of anything. He’s gone off the rails. We’re in crazytown,” Kelly is quoted as saying at a staff meeting in his office. “I don’t even know why any of us are here. This is the worst job I’ve ever had.”
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President Donald Trump‘s closest aides have taken extraordinary measures in the White House to try to stop what they saw as his most dangerous impulses, going so far as to swipe and hide papers from his desk so he wouldn’t sign them, according to a new book from legendary journalist Bob Woodward.
Woodward’s 448-page book, “Fear: Trump in the White House,” provides an unprecedented inside-the-room look through the eyes of the President’s inner circle. From the Oval Office to the Situation Room to the White House residence, Woodward uses confidential background interviews to illustrate how some of the President’s top advisers view him as a danger to national security and have sought to circumvent the commander in chief.
Many of the feuds and daily clashes have been well documented, but the picture painted by Trump’s confidants, senior staff and Cabinet officials reveal that many of them see an even more alarming situation — worse than previously known or understood. Woodward offers a devastating portrait of a dysfunctional Trump White House, detailing how senior aides — both current and former Trump administration officials — grew exasperated with the President and increasingly worried about his erratic behavior, ignorance and penchant for lying.
Chief of staff John Kelly describes Trump as an “idiot” and “unhinged,” Woodward reports. Defense Secretary James Mattis describes Trump as having the understanding of “a fifth or sixth grader.” And Trump’s former personal lawyer John Dowd describes the President as “a fucking liar,” telling Trump he would end up in an “orange jump suit” if he testified to special counsel Robert Mueller.
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A Sociopath Mentally Unstable Commander In Chief that demands the Pentagon use nukes in the Middle East. It sounds like a nightmare.
It feeds the theatrical slime-festival profiteering, but we don’t need the book. We have bing bing bong bong.
Trump is the polished creation of our policies, confusion, education, religio-capitalist fervor, our militaristic fakeness and fraudulent representation of what is honorable and good. He grew up through the 80’s during the ‘Think and Grow Rich” demagoguery zone of our birthing the age of Oligarchy. He is America in it’s purist form according to those who greedily jammed their hands onto the potters wheel. We wanted stupidity and very deliberately fashioned it with concise planning and execution. We wanted demagogues and we promoted them with religious fervor. We wanted Donald Trump, and now he is here, and look at the guilty claim, “It wasn’t me”. How can the creators be embarrassed of their creation ? They have only themselves to examine.
And yet people defend Trump and will continue to defend him, despite his behavior. “This is the west Sir, when the legend becomes fact, print the legend.” The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence.
Swiping things off the Presidents desk so he wouldn’t see them, for national security? Did those papers mention Israel? Or 9/11? Or white helmets? ISIS/Israel?
No fan of Trump, but what a false genuine courtesy Kosher double talk that was from the friendly Mossad tool!
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