Ex-FBI official demands to know who is 'spoon-feeding' Trump 'white terrorist philosophy'

A former FBI official warned Monday that President Donald Trump has been repeating quotes made by a white supremacist, neo-Nazi mass murderer — and demanded to know who has been "spoon-feeding" the president "white supremacy, white terrorist philosophy."

Over the weekend, former Republican Party chairman and Trump chief of staff Reince Priebus whitewashed the new president's threats to violate the Constitution, claiming it was nothing more than entertainment.

The quote he was referring to was a Saturday Truth Social post in which Trump said, "He who saves his Country (sic) does not violate any Law (sic).".

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Referencing the Priebus clip on MSNBC's "Deadline: White House" with host Nicolle Wallace, former FBI official Frank Figliuzzi compared it to someone saying, "Stay calm. He occasionally likes to take a grenade out and throw it to see what happens."

"I'll tell you what happens when you play with a live grenade and toss it on the floor," he continued. "Eventually, it explodes, and the only question for us is whether it's going to explode back on Trump, or explode and hurt the rest of us. And my money is on both."

Some historians may have attributed the Trump post as being a quote from Napoleon Bonaparte, said Figliuzzi, a former assistant director for counterintelligence.

"But I'll tell you where it's definitely been used far more recently, and that's with a white supremacist, far-right extremist named Anders Breivik in Norway, who killed 77 people in Norway. The worst modern mass murder in Norwegian history," he continued.

Breivik calls himself a neo-Nazi, Figliuzzi noted.

"Now our president is quoting that white supremacist, neo-Nazi murderer," said Figliuzzi. "If you voted for that, you really need to question whether you're American anymore."

Since Trump doesn't likely study Norwegian history, Figliuzzi said he thinks "someone is handing him this story, this quote, and we need to figure out who keeps spoon-feeding him the white supremacy, white terrorist philosophy."

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