‘He Never Cared About America’: Ex-Trump WH Lawyer Warns Reelecting Him Will ‘Extinguish’ What ‘Remains of the American Dream’
Photo by Michael Nigro/Sipa USA via AP Images
As former President Donald Trump gets closer and closer to securing the GOP presidential nomination and polls show him close to and even beating incumbent President Joe Biden, many of his former White House officials are loudly sounding alarm bells.
The Washington Post’s Josh Dawsey spoke to many of those former officials this week and Trump’s former White House counsel Ty Cobb pulled no punches in making crystal clear his belief that Trump would end the American experiment if returned to the White House.
“He has never cared about America, its citizens, its future or anything but himself. In fact, as history well shows from his divisive lies, as well as from his unrestrained contempt for the rule of law and his related crimes, his conduct and mere existence have hastened the demise of democracy and of the nation,” Cobb wrote to Dawsey in an email, adding:
Our adversaries and our allies both recognize that even his potential reelection diminishes America on the world stage and ensures continued acceleration of the domestic decline we are currently enduring. If that reelection actually happens, the consequences will extinguish what, if anything, remains of the American Dream.
Cobb, who vocally supported Trump’s 2016 campaign, became a household name when he defended Trump during the special counsel probe into allegations of Russian interference in the 2016 election.
Dawsey also highlighted Trump officials turned critics like former national security adviser John Bolton and White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham who are actively working to ensure Trump does not get back in power.
Former Trump chief of staff John Kelly also spoke to Dawsey, “What’s going on in the country that a single person thinks this guy would still be a good president when he’s said the things he’s said and done the things he’s done?”
“It’s beyond my comprehension he has the support he has,” Kelly added in an interview with the Post.
“I came out and told people the awful things he said about wounded soldiers, and it didn’t have half a day’s bounce. You had his attorney general Bill Barr come out, and not a half a day’s bounce. If anything, his numbers go up. It might even move the needle in the wrong direction. I think we’re in a dangerous zone in our country,” added Kelly, who is also a retired Marine Corps. General.
Dawsey reached out to Trump’s campaign who responded by calling the former Trump officials “media whores.”
“These media whores are always looking for their next grift — whether it’s book deals or cable news contracts — because they know their entire worth as human beings revolve around talking about President Trump. They clearly don’t own any mirrors because if they did, they would not be able to look at themselves every day knowing what they’re doing is hurting the country. These charlatans are disgusting and should be wholly ignored,” said Trump campaign spokesman Steven Cheung.
