10/25/2024
24 Former Trump Members who say Trump is not acceptable as President
1. His vice president, Mike Pence: “The American people deserve to know
that President Trump asked me to put him over my oath to the Constitution. …
Anyone who puts himself over the Constitution should never be president of
the United States.”
2. His second attorney general, Bill Barr: “Someone who engaged in that
kind of bullying about a process that is fundamental to our system and to our
self-government shouldn’t be anywhere near the Oval Office.”
3. His first secretary of defense, James Mattis: “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.”
4. His second secretary of defense, Mark Esper: “I think he’s unfit for office.
… He puts himself before country. His actions are all about him and not about
the country. And then, of course, I believe he has integrity and character
issues as well.”
5. His chairman of the joint chiefs, retired Gen. Mark Milley, seemed to
invoke Trump: “We don’t take an oath to a wannabe dictator. We take an oath
to the Constitution and we take an oath to the idea that is America – and we’re
willing to die to protect it.”
6. His first secretary of state, Rex Tillerson: “(Trump’s) understanding of
global events, his understanding of global history, his understanding of US
history was really limited. It’s really hard to have a conversation with someone
who doesn’t even understand the concept for why we’re talking about this.”
7. His first ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley: “He used to be
good on foreign policy and now he has started to walk it back and get weak in
the knees when it comes to Ukraine. A terrible thing happened on January 6
and he called it a beautiful day.”
8. His presidential transition vice-chairman, Chris Christie: “Someone who I
would argue now is just out for himself.”
9. His second national security adviser, HR McMaster: “We saw the absence
of leadership, really anti-leadership, and what that can do to our country.”
10. His third national security adviser, John Bolton: “I believe (foreign
leaders) think he is a laughing fool.”
11. His second chief of staff, John Kelly: “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.”
12. His former acting chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney, who resigned as US
special envoy to Ireland after January 6, 2021: “I quit because I think he failed
at being the president when we needed him to be that.”
13. One of his many former communications directors, Anthony
Scaramucci: “He is the domestic terrorist of the 21st century.”
14. Another former communications director, Stephanie Grisham: “I am
terrified of him running in 2024.”
15. His secretary of education, Betsy DeVos, who resigned after January 6:
“When I saw what was happening on January 6 and didn’t see the president
step in and do what he could have done to turn it back or slow it down or
really address the situation, it was just obvious to me that I couldn’t continue.”
16. His secretary of transportation, Elaine Chao, who resigned after January
6: “At a particular point the events were such that it was impossible for me to
continue, given my personal values and my philosophy.
17. His first secretary of the Navy, Richard Spencer: “…the president has
very little understanding of what it means to be in the military, to fight ethically
or to be governed by a uniform set of rules and practices.”
18. His first homeland security adviser, Tom Bossert: “The President
undermined American democracy baselessly for months. As a result, he’s
culpable for this siege, and an utter disgrace.”
19. His former personal lawyer and fixer, Michael Cohen: “Donald’s an idiot.”
20. His White House lawyer, Ty Cobb: “Trump relentlessly puts forth claims
that are not true.”
21. A former director of strategic communications, Alyssa Farah
Griffin, who is now a CNN political commentator: “We can stand by the
policies, but at this point we cannot stand by the man.”
22. A top aide in charge of his outreach to African Americans, Omarosa
Manigault Newman: “Donald Trump, who would attack civil rights icons and
professional athletes, who would go after grieving black widows, who would
say there were good people on both sides, who endorsed an accused child
molester; Donald Trump, and his decisions and his behavior, was harming the
country. I could no longer be a part of this madness.”
23. A former deputy press secretary, Sarah Matthews, who resigned after
January 6: “I thought that he did do a lot of good during his four years. I think
that his actions on January 6 and the lead-up to it, the way that he’s acted in
the aftermath, and his continuation of pushing this lie that the election is stolen
has made him wholly unfit to hold office every again.”
24. His final chief of staff’s aide, Cassidy Hutchinson: “I think that Donald
Trump is the most grave threat we will face to our democracy in o
