I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration

[ThisIsMe]

President Trump is facing a test to his presidency unlike any faced by a modern American leader.

It’s not just that the special counsel looms large. Or that the country is bitterly divided over Mr. Trump’s leadership. Or even that his party might well lose the House to an opposition hellbent on his downfall.

The dilemma — which he does not fully grasp — is that many of the senior officials in his own administration are working diligently from within to frustrate parts of his agenda and his worst inclinations.

I would know. I am one of them.

To be clear, ours is not the popular “resistance” of the left. We want the administration to succeed and think that many of its policies have already made America safer and more prosperous.

But we believe our first duty is to this country, and the president continues to act in a manner that is detrimental to the health of our republic.

That is why many Trump appointees have vowed to do what we can to preserve our democratic institutions while thwarting Mr. Trump’s more misguided impulses until he is out of office.

The root of the problem is the president’s amorality. Anyone who works with him knows he is not moored to any discernible first principles that guide his decision making.

Opinion | I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration (Published 2018)

I work for the president but like-minded colleagues and I have vowed to thwart parts of his agenda and his worst inclinations.

www.nytimes.com

I was reminded of the op-ed while watching this.

Retribution — The battle for democracy

Four Corners is the home of Australian investigative journalism.

www.abc.net.au

Miles Taylor, the author of the piece and then chief-of-staff at DHS, recalls meetings in the Oval with people coming and going, some without security clearances while classified info was being discussed, trump barking out orders on the fly, essentially "winging it."

Meetings with him veer off topic and off the rails, he engages in repetitive rants, and his impulsiveness results in half-baked, ill-informed and occasionally reckless decisions that have to be walked back.

“There is literally no telling whether he might change his mind from one minute to the next,” a top official complained to me recently, exasperated by an Oval Office meeting at which the president flip-flopped on a major policy decision he’d made only a week earlier.

I'd like trump fans to pause for a moment..............................instead of reflexively coming to Don's defense....................and consider if that is the kind of leadership you desire from a prez. Especially given that the people who were around him in his first term who made sure his idiocy was not imposed on the country will not be there in a second term.

Well, considering the alternative…he’s the best we got…

 

[OKTexas]

Former Trump officials are among the most vocal opponents of returning him to the White House​

Former Trump officials are among the most vocal opponents of returning him to the White House

As Trump seeks the presidency a third time, he’s being shadowed by a chorus of people who served in his administration who have become sharp critics, some offering dire predictions about his return to power.

apnews.com

Are they traitors to trump or patriots to the country?

Well that's a false choice, they're just citizens who are entitled to their opinion. According to the article they are a minority of former officials and cabinet members. But as usual with commie propaganda these facts are buried at the bottom of the article, while the detrimental opinions are given the headline. To be fair the headline should have read:

Former Trump officials are among the most vocal opponents of returning him to the White House, while others disagree.​

It's plain to see what the intent of AP and the OP was, honesty ain't it.

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[scruffy]

You believed the pee tapes, Russia collusion hoax, the very fine people misrepresentation, and the suckers and losers lie.

This is one of the reasons I have Dragon Foot on ignore. She believes all that leftard bullshit.

You cant talk to people like that, they'll drag you down with them. You know what they say about wrestling pigs...

 

[KissMy]

of course interesting----but I would have appreciated some EXAMPLES of those ill conceived Ideas and acts made "on the
fly" that were actually effectuated. There is no question in my
mind that Trump is afflicted with hoof in mouth disease but I am
not convinced that his judgment is clouded.

55% of Trump's economy was Government Spending!

Trump blames strong dollar for U.S. economy ‘going to hell’

"Trump says the dollar is too strong"

"Trump want's a weaker US dollar"

"JD Vance want's a weaker US dollar"

Kiss your savings & pension goodbye and enjoy massive inflation!

Destroying the US dollar is & has been the only goal of Republicans. The US Dollar is like Government bonds that's value is based on the full faith & credit of the US Government.

100% of Republican law makers signed Norquist no tax pledge to "shrink government and drown it" in debt. They never signed a pledge to shrink spending, they actually increase spending to explode debt to destroy government credit & US Dollar! Then they undermined our faith in the voting system & attacked the US Capitol to finish the job.

Republicans are the money printers, deficit inflation exploding & big spenders! Republican Nixon took the US Dollar off the Gold standard in 1971. Trump printed 5 times more than all presidents in history COMBINED! Republicans #1 Goal is to Print, Print, Print & Spend, Spend, Spend!!!

Democrats pay for spending with taxes & spending cuts that prevents deficits & inflation. Without those spending cuts, the tax cuts only increase deficit, money printing, interest on debt & inflation taxation forever.

Treasury Secretary Paul O’Neill tried to warn Republican Vice President Dick Cheney that his plan to explode budget deficits posed a threat to the economy. Cheney cut him off. “You know, Paul, Reagan proved deficits don’t matter,”...“We won the midterms. This is our due.” A month later, Cheney told the Treasury secretary he was fired.

Reagan Republicans Bush & Trump caused our Debt problems!!!

 

[SweetSue92]

President Trump is facing a test to his presidency unlike any faced by a modern American leader.

It’s not just that the special counsel looms large. Or that the country is bitterly divided over Mr. Trump’s leadership. Or even that his party might well lose the House to an opposition hellbent on his downfall.

The dilemma — which he does not fully grasp — is that many of the senior officials in his own administration are working diligently from within to frustrate parts of his agenda and his worst inclinations.

I would know. I am one of them.

To be clear, ours is not the popular “resistance” of the left. We want the administration to succeed and think that many of its policies have already made America safer and more prosperous.

But we believe our first duty is to this country, and the president continues to act in a manner that is detrimental to the health of our republic.

That is why many Trump appointees have vowed to do what we can to preserve our democratic institutions while thwarting Mr. Trump’s more misguided impulses until he is out of office.

The root of the problem is the president’s amorality. Anyone who works with him knows he is not moored to any discernible first principles that guide his decision making.

Opinion | I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration (Published 2018)

I work for the president but like-minded colleagues and I have vowed to thwart parts of his agenda and his worst inclinations.

www.nytimes.com

I was reminded of the op-ed while watching this.

Retribution — The battle for democracy

Four Corners is the home of Australian investigative journalism.

www.abc.net.au

Miles Taylor, the author of the piece and then chief-of-staff at DHS, recalls meetings in the Oval with people coming and going, some without security clearances while classified info was being discussed, trump barking out orders on the fly, essentially "winging it."

Meetings with him veer off topic and off the rails, he engages in repetitive rants, and his impulsiveness results in half-baked, ill-informed and occasionally reckless decisions that have to be walked back.

“There is literally no telling whether he might change his mind from one minute to the next,” a top official complained to me recently, exasperated by an Oval Office meeting at which the president flip-flopped on a major policy decision he’d made only a week earlier.

I'd like trump fans to pause for a moment..............................instead of reflexively coming to Don's defense....................and consider if that is the kind of leadership you desire from a prez. Especially given that the people who were around him in his first term who made sure his idiocy was not imposed on the country will not be there in a second term.

Oh honey we know. Up to the point of setting up an assassination attempt.

When you totally torch the nation at least we know you'll have to stew in your own juices too. Of course you're too dumb to have figured that out.

 

[Lesh]

Barr
Omerosa
Flynn
Manafort
Vance
Bannon
Acosta


Has he made any GOOD decisions?

Some truly bizarre names on that list

 

[berg80]

Ex-Trump White House officials, dozens of Republicans endorse Harris​

Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign on Sunday flaunted over two dozen presidential endorsements from Republican party members, including some who served in former President Donald Trump’s administration.

Nearly 30 GOP members were cited as part of the new “Republicans for Harris” initiative launched Sunday. These include Stephanie Grisham, former White House press secretary under Trump, and national security official Olivia Troye — who worked as Vice President Mike Pence’s national security advisor. Chuck Hagel and Ray LaHood, Republican cabinet members under President Barack Obama, were also listed.

By publicly defecting on the Republican presidential nominee, these officials leave a target on their back for attacks from Trump.

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/08/04/trump-white-house-kamala-harris-election.html

I'm nearly 68 years old. I can't ever remember a prez with so many defectors from his own party or who worked for him. People who have seen him up close know he is flat out unqualified to be prez and always has been.

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

Kiss your savings & pension goodbye and enjoy massive inflation!

Destroying the US dollar is & has been the only goal of Republicans. The US Dollar is like Government bonds that's value is based on the full faith & credit of the US Government.

100% of Republican law makers signed Norquist no tax pledge to "shrink government and drown it" in debt. They never signed a pledge to shrink spending, they actually increase spending to explode debt to destroy government credit & US Dollar!
Republicans #1 Goal is to Print, Print, Print & Spend, Spend, Spend!!!

Reagan Republicans Bush & Trump caused our Debt problems!!!

Brain Freeze

The debt is caused by lack of productivity due to promoting birth and brown-nosing and demoralizing the talented. Shallow academic analyses only talk about structure and take it for granted that the human materials supporting the structure are adequate for the job or else they wouldn't have been hired. The stress fractures are caused by inferiority in those materials, not by the theoretical on-paper structure.

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

Ex-Trump White House officials, dozens of Republicans endorse Harris​

Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign on Sunday flaunted over two dozen presidential endorsements from Republican party members, including some who served in former President Donald Trump’s administration.

Nearly 30 GOP members were cited as part of the new “Republicans for Harris” initiative launched Sunday. Republican cabinet members under President Barack Obama, were also listed.

By publicly defecting on the Republican presidential nominee, these officials leave a target on their back for attacks from Trump.

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/08/04/trump-white-house-kamala-harris-election.html

I'm nearly 68 years old. I can't ever remember a prez with so many defectors from his own party or who worked for him.

RINO Renegades

 

[marvin martian]

President Trump is facing a test to his presidency unlike any faced by a modern American leader.

It’s not just that the special counsel looms large. Or that the country is bitterly divided over Mr. Trump’s leadership. Or even that his party might well lose the House to an opposition hellbent on his downfall.

The dilemma — which he does not fully grasp — is that many of the senior officials in his own administration are working diligently from within to frustrate parts of his agenda and his worst inclinations.

I would know. I am one of them.

To be clear, ours is not the popular “resistance” of the left. We want the administration to succeed and think that many of its policies have already made America safer and more prosperous.

But we believe our first duty is to this country, and the president continues to act in a manner that is detrimental to the health of our republic.

That is why many Trump appointees have vowed to do what we can to preserve our democratic institutions while thwarting Mr. Trump’s more misguided impulses until he is out of office.

The root of the problem is the president’s amorality. Anyone who works with him knows he is not moored to any discernible first principles that guide his decision making.

Opinion | I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration (Published 2018)

I work for the president but like-minded colleagues and I have vowed to thwart parts of his agenda and his worst inclinations.

www.nytimes.com

I was reminded of the op-ed while watching this.

Retribution — The battle for democracy

Four Corners is the home of Australian investigative journalism.

www.abc.net.au

Miles Taylor, the author of the piece and then chief-of-staff at DHS, recalls meetings in the Oval with people coming and going, some without security clearances while classified info was being discussed, trump barking out orders on the fly, essentially "winging it."

Meetings with him veer off topic and off the rails, he engages in repetitive rants, and his impulsiveness results in half-baked, ill-informed and occasionally reckless decisions that have to be walked back.

“There is literally no telling whether he might change his mind from one minute to the next,” a top official complained to me recently, exasperated by an Oval Office meeting at which the president flip-flopped on a major policy decision he’d made only a week earlier.

I'd like trump fans to pause for a moment..............................instead of reflexively coming to Don's defense....................and consider if that is the kind of leadership you desire from a prez. Especially given that the people who were around him in his first term who made sure his idiocy was not imposed on the country will not be there in a second term.

^^^Now this is what real insurrection looks like.

 

[irosie91]

^^^Now this is what real insurrection looks like.

I tend not to pay attention to unemployed, used to be, party-members

 

[80zephyr]

He's not a candidate for the presidency. If you want to discuss the accomplishments of his admin vs trump's, start a thread about it.

This one is about various members of Don's first admin who oppose his re-election due to his incompetence, recklessness, and what that will look like a second time around.

I wonder why when Biden was running for re-election that his inner circle didn't warn us about his incompetence? NOT ONE opposed his re-election bid. Tells you something, doesn't it?

 

[irosie91]

I wonder why when Biden was running for re-election that his inner circle didn't warn us about his incompetence? NOT ONE opposed his re-election bid. Tells you something, doesn't it?

tells me that Trump is a hard man to work for.

 

[80zephyr]

tells me that Trump is a hard man to work for.

It tells me that power is more important to the Democrats.

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

^^^Now this is what real insurrection looks like.

Soon to Be Topped by the Al Qaida Quislings at the DNC

 

[krichton]

President Trump is facing a test to his presidency unlike any faced by a modern American leader.

It’s not just that the special counsel looms large. Or that the country is bitterly divided over Mr. Trump’s leadership. Or even that his party might well lose the House to an opposition hellbent on his downfall.

The dilemma — which he does not fully grasp — is that many of the senior officials in his own administration are working diligently from within to frustrate parts of his agenda and his worst inclinations.

I would know. I am one of them.

To be clear, ours is not the popular “resistance” of the left. We want the administration to succeed and think that many of its policies have already made America safer and more prosperous.

But we believe our first duty is to this country, and the president continues to act in a manner that is detrimental to the health of our republic.

That is why many Trump appointees have vowed to do what we can to preserve our democratic institutions while thwarting Mr. Trump’s more misguided impulses until he is out of office.

The root of the problem is the president’s amorality. Anyone who works with him knows he is not moored to any discernible first principles that guide his decision making.

Opinion | I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration (Published 2018)

I work for the president but like-minded colleagues and I have vowed to thwart parts of his agenda and his worst inclinations.

www.nytimes.com

I was reminded of the op-ed while watching this.

Retribution — The battle for democracy

Four Corners is the home of Australian investigative journalism.

www.abc.net.au

Miles Taylor, the author of the piece and then chief-of-staff at DHS, recalls meetings in the Oval with people coming and going, some without security clearances while classified info was being discussed, trump barking out orders on the fly, essentially "winging it."

Meetings with him veer off topic and off the rails, he engages in repetitive rants, and his impulsiveness results in half-baked, ill-informed and occasionally reckless decisions that have to be walked back.

“There is literally no telling whether he might change his mind from one minute to the next,” a top official complained to me recently, exasperated by an Oval Office meeting at which the president flip-flopped on a major policy decision he’d made only a week earlier.

I'd like trump fans to pause for a moment..............................instead of reflexively coming to Don's defense....................and consider if that is the kind of leadership you desire from a prez. Especially given that the people who were around him in his first term who made sure his idiocy was not imposed on the country will not be there in a second term.

Trump was basically king Joffrey, but without actually being king. This account is not unlike all the others who have worked with him and told their stories. This is why you don’t elect some random amoral business man off the street to the highest office in the land.