‘President Lacked the Necessary Brainpower’Â
Another of Donald Trump’s most trusted inner circle members has thrown the Commander-in-Chief under the bus. This past summer U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson reportedly called President Trump a “moron.” So disturbed was the president hearing the news all over the media he ordered the former Exxon CEO to hold a press conference denying the reports.
Tillerson obeyed – in part. He held a press conference but refused to deny the reports. As recently as the middle of October Tillerson has still repeatedly refused to say he did not call Trump a “moron.”
Trump National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster has become the latest to allegedly denounce President Trump behind his back.
“Over a July dinner with Oracle CEO Safra Catz,” Buzzfeed reports, “McMaster bluntly trashed his boss.” Buzzfeed cites “five sources with knowledge of the conversation.”Â
Four of the sources “told BuzzFeed News they heard about the exchange directly from Catz. McMaster “dismissed the president variously as an ‘idiot’ and a ‘dope’ with the intelligence of a ‘kindergartner,’ the sources said.”
A sixth source who was not familiar with the details of the dinner told BuzzFeed News that McMaster had made similarly derogatory comments about Trump’s intelligence to him in private, including that the president lacked the necessary brainpower to understand the matters before the National Security Council.
McMaster did not stop with Trump, however.
Buzzfeed adds, “three of the sources said that McMaster disparaged multiple members of the administration to Catz, including Tillerson, Secretary of Defense James Mattis, former White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon, and President Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner. Of Kushner, one source told BuzzFeed News, McMaster said he had no business being in the White House and should not be involved in national security issues.”
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