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Dozens of Former Trump Insiders Now Oppose Him

The list of Trump insiders who have changed sides and who now oppose him is long. CNN has compiled a list of 24 of the most outspoken current ones. Here it is with brief quotes from each one.

• Mike Pence: "The American people deserve to know that President Trump asked me to put him over my oath to the Constitution."
  
  
• 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."
  
  
• Jim 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."
  
  
• 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."
  
  
• Mark Milley: "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."
  
  
• Rex Tillerson: "(Trump's) understanding of global events, his understanding of global history, his understanding of U.S. 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."
  
  
• 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."
  
  
• Chris Christie: "Someone who I would argue now is just out for himself."
  
  
• Herbert McMaster: "We saw the absence of leadership, really anti-leadership, and what that can do to our country."
  
  
• John Bolton: "I believe (foreign leaders) think he is a laughing fool."
  
  
• 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."
  
  
• Mick Mulvaney: "I quit because I think he failed at being the president when we needed him to be."
  
  
• Anthony Scaramucci: "He is the domestic terrorist of the 21st century."
  
  
• Stephanie Grisham: "I am terrified of him running in 2024."
  
  
• Betsy DeVos: "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."
  
  
• Elaine Chao: "At a particular point the events were such that it was impossible for me to continue, given my personal values and my philosophy."
  
  
• 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."
  
  
• Tom Bossert: "The President undermined American democracy baselessly for months. As a result, he's culpable for this siege, and an utter disgrace."
  
  
• Michael Cohen: "Donald's an idiot."
  
  
• Ty Cobb (Trump's lawyer, not the baseball player): "Trump relentlessly puts forth claims that are not true."
  
  
• Alyssa Farah Griffin: "We can stand by the policies, but at this point we cannot stand by the man."
  
  
• 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."
  
  
• Sarah Matthews: "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 ever again."
  
  
• Cassidy Hutchinson: "I think that Donald Trump is the most grave threat we will face to our democracy in our lifetime, and potentially in American history."
  

It would be completely impossible to find a list of 24 former insiders from the Obama, Bush 43, Clinton, Bush 41, Reagan, or any previous administration who had such scathing remarks about their former boss. Well, OK, maybe the Millard Fillmore administration. (V)