People who worked with Donald Trump are speaking to Four Corners as he makes a bid for his second coming as US president.
The last thing I expect to get sitting in Anthony Scaramucci's Manhattan boardroom is a lesson in astrology. But when you're talking Donald Trump , the conversation can veer in any direction.
"He lives in a triplex apartment, this sort of garish, triplex apartment. It'd be like if Louis the 14th smoked crystal meth and then decorated," Scaramucci says. "He's incredibly transactional," Scaramucci says of Trump. "He'll socialise with you and be charming and gregarious and get you to do something for him. And then if it serves his interest to run you over with the car, he'll run you over with the car."
Taylor says Trump's office was "like a crowded New York bagel shop". "You might be talking about a classified issue and someone who doesn't have a security clearance comes walking through … and he's getting phone calls and he's telling people to tweet things out." Two years after writing the New York Times article — which Trump had previously suggested was an act of "treason" — Taylor resigned and outed himself. Trump tweeted that he'd never heard of him before saying he should be prosecuted.Taylor isn't the only former senior administration official reportedly labelled a traitor by Trump and his supporters. Of the six men who served as Trump's national security adviser, John Bolton lasted the longest, at 17 months.
"They seemed like big guys. They were tough and confident, and I think he wanted to emulate them. Although he didn't exactly know how."For every critic of Trump I meet in the US capital though, there's an ally with a different story. "A lot of presidents would stay up until the early hours reading thick briefing books," Sondland says. "That's not how Trump got his information. He got his information over the telephone and in person … in fact, the joke was he would ask the janitor who was mopping the floor, 'What do you think about this or that?'"Former acting Homeland Security secretary Chad Wolf says his interactions with Trump were always about what was best for the American people.
"Instead, they continue to say, 'Well, it's a bad idea,' and, 'My opinion's more important than yours, even though I wasn't elected,'" he says.Some tip that should Trump be re-elected, he will once again appoint Wolf to a senior post.Should he win back the presidency, Trump has vowed to pursue "retribution" for himself and the Americans who feel they've been left behind by wokeism and liberal politics.
"If you look at it from an intelligence professional's perspective, Trump is a counterintelligence nightmare," he says.
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