Kelly's statement to CNN comes days after former Trump White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson sat down with CNN in an interview promoting her new book, "Enough," and
warned the public that "Donald Trump is the most grave threat we will face to our democracy in our lifetime, and potentially in American history.""Enough," interestingly, contains a scene in which Hutchinson and then-White House communications director Alyssa Farah Griffin push back against Goldberg's 2020 story. Griffin issued a statement to The Atlantic after that story posted denying the report.
Reached for comment over the weekend,
Griffin said, "Despite publicly praising the military and claiming to be the most pro-military president
, there's a demonstrable record of Trump bashing the most decorated service members in our country, from Gen. Mattis to Kelly to Milley, to criticizing the wounded or deceased like John McCain. Donald Trump will fundamentally never understand service the way those who have actually served in uniform will, and it's one of the countless reasons he's unfit to be commander in chief."No other presidential candidate in history has had so many detractors from his inner circle.
His former secretary of defense, Mark Esper, told CNN in November 2022, "I think he's unfit for office. … He puts himself before country. His actions are all about him and not about the country. And then, of course, I believe he has integrity and character issues as well."
Trump's former attorney general,
Bill Barr, told CBS in June that "he is a consummate narcissist. And he constantly engages in reckless conduct. … He will always put his own interests, and gratifying his own ego, ahead of everything else, including the country's interests. Our country can't, you know, can't be a therapy session for you know, a troubled man like this."
How anyone can defend Trump anymore is literally unbelievable 
