Ex-Trump official warns about Donald’s ‘worst instincts’

Former president donald trumpTrump’s “worst instincts” are leading his supporters to a “very, very dark place,” according to former Trump administration official Elizabeth Neumann.

Neumann, who held multiple high-level roles in the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) during the Trump presidency, is one of several former Trump officials who have recently been issuing warnings about the Republican candidate as he seeks to return to the White House by defeating the vice president Kamala Harris in November.

Neumann said MSNBC Host Katy Tur in an interview Friday said she believes Trump supporters are giving him an unwarranted “pass” and dismissing authoritarian comments that should be taken seriously, while adding that the way the former president behaves ” behind closed doors” would “scare” most. Americans.

“You have to take what he says seriously,” Neumann said. “When he says he wants to be ‘a dictator from day one,’ he actually means it. He says it somewhat jokingly; he says it in a way that allows people to give him a pass. Don’t give him a pass. . a pass.”

“Behind closed doors, his worst instincts would scare the average American,” he added. “He has no humanity, no decency, no respect…instead, (he) is simply willing to put people aside to achieve his goals. He is very dangerous, in fact.”

Neumann said Trump’s possible return to power “presents a threat” to freedom and the “American way of life,” arguing that the election is less about political differences than about choosing a candidate fit for office.

“It’s about appointing someone who has the character and competence to take the oath,” Neumann said. “He doesn’t care about the Constitution. He doesn’t care about defending the rule of law. To him, they are just limitations that he is more than happy to ignore and implement.”

“(Trump is) very happy, in fact, to apply the worst instincts we’ve seen in history when we put people with those authoritarian tendencies in positions of power,” he said. “It leads to violence, it leads to destruction and it certainly leads to loss of freedom.

news week He reached out to the Trump campaign by email for comment Friday evening.

John Kelly, a retired U.S. Marine Corps general who served as White House chief of staff and DHS secretary under Trump, warned earlier this week that he had personally witnessed the former president arguing that Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler “did some good things” and offering praise for “Hitler’s generals.”

Kelly, Trump’s longest-serving chief of staff, also called Trump a “fascist” and confirmed his earlier account of the president calling American soldiers killed or wounded in action “losers and suckers” while he was in office.

Triumph responded to Kelly’s claims calling out a “bad guy” who simply “made up” his memories in a Truth Social post, diagnosing his former chief of staff with “Trump Derangement Syndrome.”

More than a dozen former Trump administration officials, including Neumann, signed a letter this week supporting former Kelly’s comments about the former president, writing that they “applaud General Kelly for highlighting in stark detail the danger of a second Trump term.”

Neumann, who was a senior adviser to Kelly during her time at DHS, said during her interview on MSNBC on Friday that it was “important” for Kelly and others to issue a “warning” to voters because Trump is “unfit to serve.”

“(Trump is) dangerous, unfit to serve and I think he wants to be an authoritarian,” he said. “He’s taking this country, a certain segment of this country, to a very, very dark place. And that’s why it’s important to me and to people like John Kelly and others, to try to issue this warning.”