Former Bush official warns diplomats to stay away from Trump's 'angry, arrogant' transition

Diplomats are being warned to stay away from Donald Trump and his transition team.
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A former counselor to the Department of State under former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice posted an ominous warning Tuesday about President-elect Donald Trump's transition team. Eliot A. Cohen, now a professor at Johns Hopkins University, indicated in a tweet Tuesday morning that he'd changed his mind about possibly giving Team Trump a chance; citing a bad "exchange" of sorts with the president-elect's transition team, Cohen advised everyone to run far, far away:

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