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Folks who knew Trump

•  Wharton Professor William T Kelley: “Donald Trump was the dumbest god damn student I ever had!” 
• Trump’s Chief of Staff Gen. John Kelly: “He’s unhinged and an idiot! – We have to save him from himself!” 
• Trump’s Attorney General William Barr: “Trump has become Detached from Reality – if he really Believes this Stuff!” 
• Trump’s Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis: “Trump acts like and has the understanding of Fifth or Sixth Grader!” 
•  Trump’s Chief Strategist Steve Bannon: “The President is like an 11-year-old child!” 
• Trump’s Secretary of State Rex Tillerson: “Trump’s a Fucking Moron!”  - Via James Aymann

DavidCornDC: Dear NY Times: Good morning. How are you? I’m just wondering why in today’s paper there’s no mention of Mike Pence, Donald Trump’s former veep (as you know), saying he won’t endorse Trump. Not on the front page. Not inside. Seems kinda big. Are you okay?

Political Tribune - In the midst of the January 6th anniversary of the violent, Trump-fueled attack on the US Capitol, Stephanie Grisham sat down for an interview with CNN’s Jim Acosta, in which they spoke about the events that took place at the Capitol on January 6th, 2021, and Donald Trump’s deep-seated claims and so-called beliefs that he was the true and rightful winner of the 2020 presidential election, despite his clear and repeatedly confirmed loss to Joe Biden...  Speaking with Acosta, Grisham explained, “He knows he’s lying. He used to tell me when I was press secretary, go out there and say it. It doesn’t matter, Stephanie. Say it over and over and over again. People will believe it. He knows his base believes in him. He knows he can basically say anything, and his base will believe what he’s saying.” The former Trump press secretary went on to say that, while his lies and gullible base will likely help him secure the 2024 primaries, she expects it to backfire in his face when it comes to the general election.  “I think this will help propel him into the general, but I think that independents and center-leaning Republicans are not going to be buying this,” Grisham explained. “They’re much, much smarter than that. I think he’s going to get in trouble with it in the general with these kinds of lies.”

NY Times - Jared Kushner, the son-in-law of Donald J. Trump, confirmed on Friday that he was closing in on major real estate deals in Albania and Serbia, the latest example of the former president’s family doing business abroad even as Mr. Trump seeks to return to the White House.

Trump attorney Kenneth Chesebro, who helped orchestrate the Trump campaign's 2020 fake electors plot, had his law license suspended by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court.