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Donald Trump doesn't just strike fear into Bill Bratton. He "scares the hell out of me," the retiring New York Police Department commissioner said Wednesday.

"Mr. Trump scares me -- scares the hell out of me, to be quite frank with you and personal opinion," Bratton told "CBS This Morning." "I just don't get it in terms of the support for him."

Bratton, a military veteran, also said he was "amazed that veterans groups are so charmed by him" and called his Purple Heart episode "appalling."

Meg Whitman, a Hewlett Packard executive and Republican fund-raiser, said Tuesday that she would support Hillary Clinton for president and give a "substantial" contribution to her campaign in order to stop Donald J. Trump, whom she berated as a threat to American democracy.

"I will vote for Hillary, I will talk to my Republican friends about helping her, and I will donate to her campaign and try to raise money for her," Ms. Whitman said in a telephone interview.

In an unusual break with Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, Gov. Chris Christie said that Khizr and Ghazala Khan have the "right" to say whatever they want, and that criticism of them is "inappropriate."

Former House speaker Newt Gingrich, one of Trump's most loyal defenders, warned that his friend was in danger of throwing away the election and helping to make Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton president unless he quickly changes course.

"The current race is which of these two is the more unacceptable, because right now neither of them is acceptable," Gingrich said in a Wednesday morning telephone interview. "Trump is helping her to win by proving he is more unacceptable than she is."

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