Former CIA Director John Brennan questioned President Trump’s psychological abilities and suggested he may not be able to “put the country’s well-being first” when it comes to the coronavirus epidemic.
“I wonder whether he’s psychologically capable to put the country’s well-being first and to subordinate his own interests in trying to spin things in a manner that’s not going to reflect badly on him,” Brennan told MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell on Monday.
He also touted President Barack Obama’s response to the H1N1 virus and the Ebola virus and added that Trump undid some of the infrastructures that Obama put in place to deal with health crises.
“Right, and he had created then a pandemic office in the White House that has been taken down by the Trump administration,” Brennan said when Mitchell brought up the fact that the Ebola virus outbreak happened under Obama’s watch, adding that Trump only sees things through the “prism of how things affect his personal, and financial, political fortunes.”
Brennan has been a consistent critic of the president, and Trump has returned the criticism, arguing that the former CIA director was partially responsible for the investigation into Russian election interference and the Trump campaign.
“Has anyone looked at the mistakes that John Brennan made while serving as CIA Director?” Trump asked on Twitter in 2018. “He will go down as easily the WORST in history & since getting out, he has become nothing less than a loudmouth, partisan, political hack who cannot be trusted with the secrets to our country!”
Has anyone looked at the mistakes that John Brennan made while serving as CIA Director? He will go down as easily the WORST in history & since getting out, he has become nothing less than a loudmouth, partisan, political hack who cannot be trusted with the secrets to our country!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 18, 2018
It was reported a few weeks ago that U.S. Attorney John Durham is investigating Brennan’s actions from his time as the head of the CIA, particularly his handling of Russia’s meddling in the 2016 election.
