Trump doesn’t just get his news from Fox, he’s getting his advisors from there. It’s worth reading, then, what one now-former Fox commentator says about Fox Fake News.

Ralph Peters, a retired Army lieutenant colonel who commented on military affairs, quit Fox. He fired a parting salvo calling Fox “a mere propaganda machine for a destructive and ethically ruinous administration.” Trump, he added, is “terrified” of Vladimir Putin.

In an email to Fox colleagues, Peters said:

“Four decades ago, I took an oath as a newly commissioned officer. That oath did not expire when I took off my uniform. Today, I feel that Fox is assaulting our constitutional order and rule of law, while fostering corrosive and unjustified paranoia among viewers. Over my decade with Fox, I long was proud of the association. Now I am ashamed.

“When prime-time hosts — who have never served our country in any capacity — dismiss facts and empirical reality to launch profoundly dishonest attacks on the FBI, the Justice Department, the courts, the intelligence community (in which I served) and, not least, a model public servant and genuine war hero such as Robert Mueller — all the while scaremongering with lurid warnings of ‘deep-state’ machinations — I cannot be part of the same organization, even at a remove. To me, Fox News is now wittingly harming our system of government for profit.”

In an interview, Peters also said that Fox wouldn’t let him talk about potential collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia, even though Peters is a former intelligence officer.