The mainstream media and Washington elite once called the 2017 inauguration speech delivered by President Donald Trump, a “dark” and “bleak” vision of the future. In terms of how a Trump Administration would deal with them, that may have been true. President Trump did not offer “hope” to the Swamp. He declared war on corrupt elected officials lining their pockets and deep-state bureaucrats siphoning off power from the people.
“It was an unvarnished declaration of the basic principles of his populist and kind of nationalist movement. It was given, I think, in a very powerful way. I don’t think we’ve had a speech like that since Andrew Jackson came to the White House,” political strategist Steve Bannon said of the inaugural speech. “But you could see it was very Jacksonian. It’s got a deep, deep root of patriotism there.”
The then-newly elected president knew the powers-that-be would attack from all sides, and traitors would need to be rooted out. Leaks and fake news sprung from the White House almost immediately. Deep state operatives had already made up their minds to resist and obstruct changing the long-standing corrupt practices in D.C. While liberals rioted in the streets, Obama holdovers in the FBI and Department of Justice concocted a phony Russian collusion narrative to unseat the duly-elected president.
To say there are no lengths the resistance would go to wrestle power away from the populist president would be something of an understatement. Everyday Americans are just now learning that even President Trump’s earliest cabinet members such as Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Chief of Staff John Kelly were part of a conspiracy to prevent the America First agenda from moving forward.
“Kelly and Tillerson confided in me that when they resisted the president, they weren’t being insubordinate, they were trying to save the country. It was their decisions, not the president’s, that were in the best interests of America, they said. The president didn’t know what he was doing,” former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley states in her book With All Due Respect. “It absolutely happened. And instead of saying that to me, they should’ve been saying that to the president, not asking me to join them on their sidebar plan. It should’ve been, ‘Go tell the president what your differences are, and quit if you don’t like what he’s doing.’ But to undermine a president is really a very dangerous thing. And it goes against the Constitution, and it goes against what the American people want. And it was offensive.”
During the early months of the Trump Administration, the left-leaning media made a great deal of hay about what seemed like a revolving door at the White House. Haley’s insider book paints a vastly different picture, one that demonstrates disloyalty that borders on treason. Whether Tillerson and Kelly were influenced by Washington elites who persuaded them the president’s change in direction was ill-informed, or they bought into the business-as-usual mindset is difficult to know. What is abundantly clear is that President Trump had enemies claiming to be friends. But like the other traitors who have been rolled out and supported by the fake news media, former Chief of Staff Kelly views himself as a person of integrity.
“If by resistance and stalling she means putting a staff process in place…to ensure the (president) knew all the pros and cons of what policy decision he might be contemplating, so he could make an informed decision, then guilty as charged,” Kelly reportedly said in response to Haley’s book.
Tillerson, much like disgraced ex-FBI director James Comey, apparently believed he simply knew better than the president and the nearly 63 million people who voted for change.
“Tillerson went on to tell me the reason he resisted the president’s decisions was because, if he didn’t, people would die,” Haley wrote.
This is a narrative Americans have heard about every policy change — foreign and domestic — made by President Trump. Examples have included the U.S. would be devastated by the trade skirmishes with Canada, Mexico, China, and even Japan. Consumer goods prices have not risen a penny. The stock market would crash if Trump were elected president. It’s at an all-time high. A recession would strike due to his nationalist economic policies. Unemployment is low and at historic lows for African-Americans and Latino-Americans. The phony narratives go on and on.
It’s abundantly clear from Haley’s willingness to name names and call traitors out that the Washington Swamp will take years to drain. Voters can pull the plug on the political elite class once and for all in 2020.
Pres. Trump has got to get up up his backside and start purging out these deep state operatives which are embedded in the White House. Their only mission there is to topple his legitimate Presidency. Amb. Haley was quite correct in pointing these discrepancies out they should be acted upon immediately.
I wondered why Pres Trump did not get rid of the Obama followership when he moved into 1600!
I assume he wanted to believe the best of all those “deep state” operatives, but being naive has surely weakened his underpinnings and his administration. NOW he needs to clean house and have a fresh start with loyal workers in his second term. Our country doesn’t deserve what the “left behinds” have done to him and us.