(REUTERS)
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Donald Trump’s White House even now contains staffers convinced he is unfit to be president, a former senior administration official who famously spoke out anonymously about such concerns during Trump’s first term said.
“If I was sitting with Donald Trump right now, I would say, ‘I have friends in your White House, and some of them are … laying very, very low, but share some of the same concerns that I had during the first Trump administration,’” Miles Taylor said.
Those concerns, Taylor said, were that Trump “is still the same man, but worse and emboldened, still deeply impulsive, but impulsive without checks and balances around him.”
Taylor was speaking to the Clinton adviser turned Lincoln biographer Sidney Blumenthal and the Princeton historian Sean Wilentz on their podcast, The Court of History.
Taylor was chief of staff in the Department of Homeland Security when he wrote the September 2018 op-ed for the New York Times saying he was “part of the resistance” to Trump, a group of senior officials concerned that the president was not fit to govern and dedicated to checking his wilder impulses.
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