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Former Trump Aide: Donald Was ‘Unwell’ As POTUS And Is Getting Worse

Miles Taylor served as chief of staff at the Department of Homeland Security in the Trump administration, and he says the thought of disgraced former president Donald Trump returning to the White House terrifies him.

Speaking with MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace, Taylor noted, “The man that I interacted with years ago was very visibly unwell, was observably unstable, and he was the president of the United States then. I can only imagine what’s happened to him since.”

For example, Taylor explained, the potential appointees in a second Trump administration can be divided into four “scary” groups: The loyalists, the assassins, the replacements, and the shadow government.

Loyalists, Taylor continued, would be that Trump appoints to Cabinet positions, even if the Senate doesn’t confirm them.

“They’re going to put them in anyway. People who will execute his orders no matter how bad.”

The “assassins” are people who will comprise the core of political appointees who will be placed in civil service positions to do the day-to-day work of agencies such as the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection Agency.

“These are people who project tornado paths and try to protect the United States from terrorists,” Taylor told Wallace. “Political appointees being in those roles is very scary for me, it’s something they didn’t do in the first term, they’re keen on doing in the second.”

That leaves the “shadow government” to make the biggest decisions, even though they hold no official government positions.

“We saw this in the first term where departments like the Department of Veterans Affairs people said there were the three amigos in Mar-a-Lago that would make phone calls and tell them what to do.”

“I worry in a second term, he’ll have all of these outsiders that aren’t fit to take government jobs, pulling the strings.”

But perhaps most terrifying of all, Taylor warned, is Trump’s continuing mental collapse since he lost in 2020 to President Joe Biden.

“We’ve witnessed it, we all see it as an American public. But I can’t imagine how unstable he’ll be behind that resolute desk again.”

A second Trump administration would be the end of the American republic. That’s why it’s so important that we all register to vote and cast a ballot against him in November.

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Trump’s White House Was Awash In Booze, Speed, And Tranquilizers: Report

The Trump White House was a drug “free-for-all,” with staffers using speed, tranquilizers, and booze in copious quantities, according to a disturbing report from Rolling Stone.

The administration was said to be “awash with speed” and some staffers also took the tranquilizer Xanax, often washing it down with alcohol, which can lead to unconsciousness and death.

Citing a Defense Department Inspector General’s report, Rolling Stone’s Noah Shachtman and Asawin Suebsaeng reveal that federal investigators “repeatedly noted that the unit had ordered thousands and thousands of doses of the stimulant modafinil, which has been used by military pilots for decades to stay alert during long missions.”

“According to interviews with four former senior administration officials and others with knowledge of the matter, the stimulant was routinely given to staffers who needed an energy boost after a late night, or just a pick-me-up to handle another day at a uniquely stressful job.”

One source told reporters, “It was kind of like the Wild West. Things were pretty loose. Whatever someone needs, we were going to fill this.”

Who was writing those prescriptions? None other than then-White House physician Ronny Jackson, who is currently a Republican member of Congress from the state of Texas.

“Nearly every source interviewed for this story traced the problems with the White House Medical Unit back to Jackson, who joined the team during the George W. Bush administration and became physician to President Barack Obama in 2013. Before then, he was known as an eccentric. Afterward, he became a menace, as several Defense Department investigations detail.”

The report also reveals that Jackson himself seemed to have dipped into his private stash of drugs and alcohol, which led to a terrifying scene in an overseas hotel.

“On a trip to Argentina in March 2016, one of those reports notes, Jackson’s ‘intoxicated behavior in the middle of the night, pounding on [a female subordinate’s] hotel room door, screaming, yelling, and overall loud behavior in his hotel room exhibited less than exemplary workplace conduct while on official travel to provide medical care for the President.'”

There have been rumors for decades that the disgraced former president has been known to use amphetamines, especially in stressful situations or when he needs an extra burst of energy for campaign appearances and other events where he feels he has to be at the top of his game.

However, while speed and other uppers may provide a temporary boost, the long-term effects of using them can be devastating to a person’s health, according to the National Institutes of Health, even leading to psychosis and death.

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New Survey Ranks Donald Trump As The Worst President In US History

While many of us have long believed that Donald Trump will go down in history as the worst president the United States has ever elected, a just released survey from the Presidential Greatness Project suggests that the 45th president is indeed the bottom of the barrel when it comes to American leaders.

Newsweek reports the purpose of the survey was to “create a ranking of presidential greatness that covered all presidents from George Washington to Joe Biden.”

Respondents were asked to rate each U.S. president on a scale of zero to 100 for their “overall greatness,” with zero being failure, 50 being average and 100 being great. The ratings were averaged for each president and then ranked from highest average to lowest.

Lincoln placed first with a 95.03 average, followed by Franklin Delano Roosevelt in at No. 2 with 90.83, George Washington at No. 3 with 90.32, Teddy Roosevelt at No. 4 with 78.58 and Thomas Jefferson at No. 5 with 77.53, the survey results show.

The latest results come from 54 responses from scholars “whose work engages presidential politics” and who are members of the American Political Science Association. The survey was conducted online in November and December of 2023.

Just how badly did Trump do when compared to other U.S. heads of state? So much so that he rated lower than James Buchanan, who consistently ranks near the bottom of similar polls.

Trump received the lowest rating with a 10.92 average, behind James Buchanan at No. 44 with 16.71, Andrew Johnson at No. 43 with 21.56, Franklin Pierce at No. 42 with 24.6, William Henry Harrison at No. 41 with 26.01 and Warren Harding at No. 40 with 27.76, according to the Presidential Greatness Project.

President Joe Biden was ranked in the top third of the list, placing at No.14 with a rating of 62.7.

The new survey also ranks Trump as the “most polarizing” president in the 247 year history of the United States.

In 2019, as he was about to be impeached, Trump proudly declared himself to be the “greatest of all presidents.”

 “‘Not only have the Democrats not advanced key pieces of legislation that would help the economy, but the polls, especially in early states, are showing that voters are tuning out.’ @PeteHegseth They don’t want our greatest of all presidents impeached!”

Greatest of all presidents? Not even close.

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Top Secret Intel File On Russia Missing – Last Seen Before Trump Left Office

A file containing classified information about Russia and Russian efforts to influence the 2016 election disappeared in the last days of the Trump administration and has yet to be found, according to a terrifying report from CNN.

The binder contained raw intelligence the US and its NATO allies collected on Russians and Russian agents, including sources and methods that informed the US government’s assessment that Russian President Vladimir Putin sought to help Trump win the 2016 election, sources tell CNN.

The intelligence was so sensitive that lawmakers and congressional aides with top secret security clearances were able to review the material only at CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, where their work scrutinizing it was itself kept in a locked safe.

The file was last seen at the White House when Trump sought to declassify it for public release. The disgraced former president has long been obsessed with news reports suggesting that the Kremlin actively worked to get him elected instead of then-Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton.

Additionally, the Russia binder wasn’t among the classified documents found when the FBI searched Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in August of last year, raising new questions about what might have become of the dossier.

New information suggests that the file was taken by former chief of staff Mark Meadows, CNN notes.

Cassidy Hutchinson, one of Meadows’ top aides, testified to Congress and wrote in her memoir that she believes Meadows took home an unredacted version of the binder. She said it had been kept in Meadows’ safe and that she saw him leave with it from the White House.

“I am almost positive it went home with Mr. Meadows,” Hutchinson told the January 6 committee in closed-door testimony, according to transcripts released last year.

George Terwilliger, an attorney for Meadows, denied his client is in possession of the file, remarking, “Anyone and any entity suggesting that he is responsible for anything missing does not have facts and should exercise great care before making false allegations.”

If the information is now in the hands of the Kremlin, has U.S. national security been compromised? And if so, what long-term ramifications could that pose for the overall security of the United States?

Perhaps members of the Trump administration, including the ex-president, need to be brought before a Senate committee and forced to testify under oath. After all, if they have nothing to hide, they should be eager to cooperate.

 

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Impeachment Hearing Goes Off The Rails As Dem Proves Trump Took Money From 12 Countries As POTUS

During a hearing today at which House Republicans tried to present evidence that suggests an impeachment inquiry of President Joe Biden should be initiated, evidence was presented that showed the person who has benefitted most while serving as head of state was none other than failed former president Donald Trump, according to David Badash of The New Civil Rights Movement.

With GOP members of the House Rules Committee suggesting that Biden had money funneled to him from other nations through his son, Hunter, U.S. Rep. Teresa Leger Fernandez (D-NM) noted that Trump did the very thing Biden is being accused of. However, there are facts proving Trump’s culpability.

Referring to Hunter Biden’s former business partner Devon Archer, who testified in a closed-door session before the House Oversight Committee, Congresswoman Fernandez explained, “if you actually look at that transcript, Mr. Archer was very clear that while the father [Joe Biden] may have talked to his son, they never ever talked about business.”

“They never ever talked about financial matters,” she continued. “And in contrast, when we were looking at issues about family business, I would like to enter into the record. Mr. Chairman, I seek consent to enter into the record, a [unrecognizable] that says Trump taxes show foreign income for more than a dozen countries.”

It appears that Fernandez was referencing a December 2022 article from Politico in which this sentence appears, “Donald Trump’s tax returns show the former president received income from more than a dozen countries during his time in office, highlighting a string of potential conflicts of interest.”

Among the countries listed by Politico are Canada, Panama, the Philippines, the United Arab Emirates, and the United Kingdom.

Those verifiable facts led Fernandez to tell her colleagues on the committee:

“I think this is our objection. I think that it is important you are making a big deal of the fact that Joe, that Joe Biden, as a private citizen, a lot of these things that you’re talking about happened when Joe Biden was a private citizen, but more importantly, that his brother and his son were separate.”

“They did not have, their businesses were not commingled. It’s very clear from the evidence that they were separate. They were not the same. In contrast, we know from this article that says, Trump’s tax show foreign income, ‘Donald Trump’s tax returns show the former president received income from more than a dozen countries during his time in office,'”

Donald Trump never placed his business assets in a blind trust when he became president. All of his predecessors did. And as a result, Trump was free to promote his hotels to foreign dignitaries, who were eager to curry favor with him. And yet, Republicans had no problem with that arrangement.

Now, however, without a shred of proof, those same Republicans want to impeach Joe Biden for the very thing they gave Trump a pass on. That’s not just hypocrisy. It’s the sort of thing that should get every last one of them voted out of office come the 2024 election.