A former Homeland Security official who served in the first Trump administration recalled private conversations in which President Trump admired the ability of foreign dictators to “exert total control” over their constituents.

Miles Taylor, the former DHS deputy chief of staff who criticized Trump in his first term, said in a Tuesday interview with CNN’s John Berman that some of the president’s recent rhetoric “would indicate his interest in being a dictator.”

“Now, I will tell you, having spent time personally with the man in the first Trump administration, he would wax poetic in private about foreign dictators he admired. He was jealous of their ability to exert total control over their populations,” Taylor said in the interview.

“That's the President of the United States we are seei

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