Vance suggests former Trump officials oppose him because of Trump's foreign policy

 Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance claimed Saturday that former Trump administration officials who have sounded the alarm about a second Donald Trump presidency are targeting the former president because he rebuffed their efforts to control him and start “ridiculous military conflicts.”

“So all those … people, including the former vice president, Mike Pence, all of these people have this horribly damaged worldview and they’re all just going after Donald Trump because they want to send people into war? That’s really your argument?” CNN’s Jake Tapper said in an interview with Vance, which will air in full Sunday on “State of the Union.”

“Absolutely, that’s my argument, Jake,” Vance said.

Trump’s longest-serving chief of staff, John Kelly, told The New York Times this week that the former president fits the “general definition of fascist.” Kelly said that it was “a new concept” for Trump that the loyalty of top government officials was to the Constitution, not to the president personally, and that Trump praised Hitler’s generals for their loyalty.

And former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley said Trump “is the most dangerous person to this country” and “a fascist to the core” in Bob Woodward’s new book, “War.”

Vance rejected the idea that these are conservative Republicans concerned about a second Trump presidency.

“All these people, Jake, they came into office thinking that they could control Donald Trump, that when he said he wanted peace in the world — ” Vance said.

“Mike Pence thought he could control Donald Trump? Really?” Tapper said.

“Yes, he did. And when he found out that he couldn’t, they all turned on Donald Trump,” Vance said.

In a previous interview with CNN’s Dana Bash during his own presidential run, the former vice president said Trump had asked Pence to put him over the Constitution.