re: Anonymous former Trump official pens article on the future of MAGA

Seems kinda swampy. They keep rolling out this shite trying to get someone other than Trump as the nominee for the MAGA contingent of voters.

After reading it, seems like a pretty honest assessment. Jared Kushner as a main adviser was a huge mistake and most Republican leaders were undermining Trump the entire time. May be a little harsh in Trumps “failures” as one man can only do so much against an entrenched system of corruption.

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It's a fact

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words out of your mouth are not fact. evidence supporting the claim is, yet you've still not provided even one piece. Carry on, buttercup

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words out of your mouth are not fact.

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It's a fact.

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Fact

He's a fine agitator, he's no leader.

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Its very easy to say things like this when you have no skin in the game. The media fired everything they had at him every single day. Drug his name and his family through the mud, openly lied about him constantly and demanded he answer to those lies. He didnt have allies. At best he had compromised opportunists who would side with him if they could gain personally. He had factions of his own party in open revolt at all times.

Do you have hundreds of competent people you trust that are willing to be subjected to media attacks and live in DC? I dont. Id be lost if I had to fill a cabinet of people.

Find me a man who can have his personal life combed through with a fine tooth comb and have nothing bad exposed to everyone.

I find this self righteous judgement of Trump to be detestable and it shows the character of the accusers more than it does Trump.

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Yeah you'll need to show your work on this one, homeboy. If it's a fact, then that should be no problem for you. Or do you mean it's your opinion?

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Rogers a massive never trumper but not a loon like decataur

Not reading and anything anonymous is intended to be a hit piece.

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Not reading and anything anonymous is intended to be a hit piece.

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If it was a hit piece, then it was very weak against Trump, but strong against the establishment that a hit piece would protect.

I'm sure it wasn't Navarro, which is why I though may be Bannon. And the piece is correct that if Trump does win again, it is likely that he would surround himself with some of the same problems as before. (Jared/Ivanka)

Trump promised to fight the swamp and not hire lobbyists for the administration.

Yeah, sure. Here are members of HIS CABINET. These are just their lobbying/coporate board (all board members double as lobbyists, that is why they get jobs on the board) positions. This doesn't include full time Washington jobs they held at the Justice Department, Big Media, congress, etc.

Remember he promised only the best cabinet and to not hire lobbyists NO SWAMP -

Energy Secretary Dan Brouillette - Louisiana native, is not embarrassed to be called a creature of Washington’s lobbying swamp. “I am who I am,” he told E&E News. “If folks refer to me as swamp creature and that means I know something about Washington, then so be it.”

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin - Mnuchin worked for investment bank Goldman Sachs, eventually rising to chief information officer - 17 years. Then Mnuchin worked for George Soros, then formed his own hedge fund. In 2008, Mnuchin led an investment group, which included Soros, to purchase IndyMac bank.

Interior Secretary David Bernhardt - Aa lobbyist and lawyer with Brownstein, Hyatt, Farber Schreck LLP for nearly 15 years. To track his numerous conflicts of interest, Bernhardt carried around an index card with a long list of former clients.

Labor Secretary Eugene Scalia - Listed more than 49 lobbying and law clients in his disclosure including Facebook, Ford, Walmart, Bank of America and Juul Labs.

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Andrew Wheeler - A former lobbyist for a coal producer, a uranium mining firm, a utility company and a cheese maker,

Attorney General William Barr - Received a $10.4 million retirement payout when he left Verizon. Was also on the board of directors Time Warner and Dominion Energy. Director of Och-Ziff Capital Management.

Defense Secretary Mark Esper - Aerospace Industries Association, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and for Raytheon Co. In fiscal year 2018, Raytheon received $18.1 billion in defense contracts.

Health and Human Services Secretary Alex AzaR - Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar was the president of pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly and Co.’s U.S. subsidiary. In testimony before the Senate Finance committee he emphasized that he has never lowered the price of a prescription drug. During Azar’s presidency at Lilly USA, from 2012 to 2017, the price of insulin spiked from $123 per vial to $255 per vial.

Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson - Carson sat on several boards of directors, including Costco, Kellogg and Vaccinogen Inc. During Carson’s time on Costco’s board, the board members were sued by shareholders for illegally backdating the corporation’s stock options and fraudulently inflating the stock price.

Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross - On boards of directors of ArcelorMittal (the world’s largest steel corporation), Bank of Cyprus, EXCO Resources (a fossil fuel corporation), Sun Bancorp (a bank holding company), Nexeo Solutions (a chemicals and plastics distribution corporation) and DSS Holdings (a shipping corporation).

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I'm sure it wasn't Navarro, which is why I though may be Bannon.

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Let's not forget Noem's little boyfriend still has an axe to grind.