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Ex-Trump official shocked by support for Donald (www.newsweek.com)

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Kelly is questioning the amount of support Trump has been able to gain despite the former president's legal woes, according to The Washington Post.

"What's going on in the country that a single person thinks this guy would still be a good president when he's said the things he's said and done the things he's done?" Kelly said in a recent interview, according to the newspaper. "It's beyond my comprehension he has the support he has."

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[-] autotldr 2 points 1 year ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Trump, the frontrunner for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, has recently been shown to be leading President Joe Biden in five out of the six key swing states: Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, and Pennsylvania, according to a poll by The New York Times and Siena College released early November.

Multiple national polls also show the former president leading Biden despite Trump's legal troubles, as he faces a wave of indictments at both the state and federal levels.

In a post to Truth Social in October, Trump called Kelly "the dumbest of my Military people," adding that he was "incapable of doing a good job, it was too much for him, and I couldn't stand the guy, so I fired him like a 'dog.'"

Alyssa Farah Griffin, a Republican who worked as an aide in Trump's White House, said last week that she is terrified to think that the former president may once again serve in the Oval Office.

"Got an advance copy of @jonkarl's new book: Tired of Winning and it paints a scary picture of an increasingly isolated, unhinged Trump who is surrounded by those who won't challenge him.

"Donald made me the very first political prisoner held by this country for failing to waive a First Amendment constitutional right," Cohen, who is a key witness in the trial, said in an MSNBC interview on All In With Chris Hayes.

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