How could his cult followers not see how dangerously damaged he was in the first 5 minutes?

At one point, as Trump sat among a group of reporters, “he had classified information on his desk, and he grabbed it and held it up and waved it in the air to brag about how he gets really important information,” Taylor recalled. “I mean, our jaws hit the floor.”

“It’s not just that he criticized [Hillary] Clinton and then did something similar. He did something vastly worse on multiple occasions, so much so that we were scared — legitimately scared — to take sensitive classified information into the Oval Office and tell the president of the United States about it,” said Miles Taylor, who served as chief of staff to the secretary of the Department of Homeland Security.