‘Madman in a circular room screaming’: ex-aide’s verdict on Trump in book
by Martin Pengelly in Washington from US news | The Guardian on (#6MP4E)
Former adviser Tom Bossert relays view of defense secretary James Mattis and describes how Trump leaked own meetings
Donald Trump's defense secretary called him a madman in a circular room screaming" and stayed away from the White House, a new book quotes a senior Trump aide as saying regarding the man now facing 88 criminal charges but set to be the Republican presidential nominee for a third successive election.
Anybody with sense - somebody like Mattis or Tillerson - they immediately shunned and stayed away from Trump," Tom Bossert, formerly homeland security adviser to Trump, tells George Stephanopoulos in the ABC News anchor's new book, The Situation Room: The Inside Story of Presidents in Crisis.
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