The Growing List Of Ex-Trump Officials Who Now Denounce The President

Bolton: In his new book set to be published on June 23, The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir, Bolton calls him “erratic,” “stunningly uninformed,” and “unfit for office,” set to be published on June 23 in which he also describes several instances when Trump allegedly sought personal political favors or approval from authoritarian leaders.

James Mattis: The former Defense Secretary  slammed the president’s photo-op in front of St. John’s church earlier this month and alleged he “tries to divide us” in a scathing statement in The Atlantic.

John Kelly: The former chief of staff has laid into Trump multiple times since leaving in December 2018, most recently saying he would have “argued against” using law enforcement to clear Lafayette Square ahead of Trump’s photo-op outside of St. John’s Church, and that he agreed with Mattis that Trump is the first president in his lifetime who “does not try to unite the American people.”

Rex Tillerson: Trump’s first secretary of state, called Trump “undisciplined” and  told CBS News’s Bob Schieffer“ that it was challenging  “to go to work for a man who is pretty undisciplined, doesn’t like to read, doesn’t read briefing reports, doesn’t like to get into the details of a lot of things, but rather just kind of says [what’s on his mind.]”

Richard Spencer: The former Navy Secretary, fired for going outside his chain of command by proposing a secret agreement with the White House over Navy SEAL Eddie Gallagher, called Trump’s intervention in the war crimes case “shocking and unprecedented” in a Washington Post op-ed in November 2019. 

Anthony Scaramucci: The  ex-White House communications director became an outspoken critic of the president last year, calling the president “crazy” and “off the rails” following visits to El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, in the wake of two mass shootings, andhe has since joined the leadership of Right Side PAC, a group dedicated to turning out GOP voters for Joe Biden in November. 

Gary Cohn: The, former National Economic Council director, who resigned in March 2018 amid differences with Trump over the president’s protectionist trade actions, criticized Trump’s strategy with the government shutdown in January 2019 and said in December that he’s “concerned” there’s no one left in the White House to stand up to Trump.

Tom Bossert: Former Homeland Security adviser recently denounced Trump for not wearing a mask in public, and told ABC’s “This Week” he was “deeply disturbed” by Trump’s call with the Ukrainian President at the center of the impeachment proceedings earlier this year — though he also warned not to rush to judgment. 

Omarosa Manigault Newman: The former director of communications for the White House Office of Public Liaison, she recorded her firing while in the White House Situation Room and claimed she was fired for information she had about a possible audio recording of Trump saying a racial epithet, and later in her book, Unhinged, wrote that “his decisions and his behavior” were “harming the country.