Ex-DHS official: Some of Trump’s closest advisers worry about his ‘mental acuity’

Former Homeland Security officials said Thursday that advisers to the administration had expressed concerns about President TrumpDonald John TrumpThe Memo: Obama goes into battle, impoverishes Trump Harris’ duty to fight for the country’s ideals in accepting VP nomination. Pelosi paints Trump and McConnell as twin barriers to more progress‘s’ mental acuity. ‘

“It’s easy to make this light,” said Taylor, who served as chief of staff to former DHS secretary Kirstjen NielsenKirstjen Michele NielsenHere the high-profile Republicans support Biden Former Trump DHS official: ‘The president’s mind is not on the job’ Ex-DHS employee who Trump said he had never heard of shares photo of them together: ‘Have you not forgotten, however! ‘MORE said in an appearance on ‘CNN’s New Day’.

‘The internet is flooded with memes of really funny copies of Donald Trump that have less mental acuity than less. But this was often discussed. This was discussed daily. I tell you with every glass thread of my being that some of the president’s closest advisers did not think he had the mental acuity to do the actual work.

“We would go into meetings there … you would sit there and try to keep your jaws off the floor, because you are trying to present the president with sensitive dangerous intelligence and information that he should consider and he can his mind does not keep it. “

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Taylor, who said earlier this week that he has the support of Democratic nominees Joe BidenJoe BidenHarris promises to fight for the ideal of the country by accepting VP nomination. Pelosi paints Trump and McConnell as twin voices to move forward. Democratic stars create unrest over attacks on Trump MOREThe bid for the White House added that he “almost never saw” Trump read a document, “but he loves photos. He loves pictures and there were many occasions where we had to see the president and we found that the best way to convince him of something was to get a really good graphic of it. ‘

Taylor earlier cut an ad for the group of Republican voters against Trump, saying in an op-ed that Trump was trying to “exploit the Homeland Security department for his own political purposes and to support his own agenda.”

The president blurted out in response, calling Taylor a “formerly DISGRUNTLED WORK … that I do not know.” The former official responded by posting a photo of himself with Trump in the Oval Office.