Chris Whipple: Trump Team ‘Essentially a Cult,’ ‘Worthy of Jonestown’

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WHIPPLE: “Yeah, sadly, it really is almost a cult worthy of Jonestown. I mean, that's what that kind of language, that’s where it comes from. It’s almost beyond belief. It’s reminiscent, of course, of that surreal meeting in the cabinet room way back when when Priebus was the Chief of Staff and everybody tried to compete to see who could be more obsequious than the other. But this takes it to a new level, I think. And the fundamental problem at the end of the day is not who the Chief of Staff is. I don’t care if it’s Jim Baker or Leon Panetta or Reince Priebus or Mick Mulvaney. As Gloria says, no Chief of Staff can really function if the President doesn’t want a Chief of Staff to tell him hard truths. It just can’t work.”