Former State adviser warns others to 'stay away' from Trump team as Rogers departs

By Tony Bertuca / November 15, 2016 at 11:10 AM
The same morning that former Rep. Mike Rogers (R-MI) resigned from President-elect Donald Trump's transition team, a former Bush administration adviser who opposed Trump took to Twitter to warn national security professionals to “stay away.” “After exchange w[ith] Trump transition team, changed my recommendation: stay away. They're angry, arrogant, screaming 'you LOST!' Will be ugly,” Eliot Cohen, who directs the strategic studies program at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies, tweeted Tuesday. Cohen served as a counselor at...

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