Peloni: Gabbard’s rather consistent pro-Iran stance has seemingly borne fruit with the successful appointment of her pro-Iran appointment of William Ruger to replace her initial appointment of the pro-Iran Daniel Davis, after the latter appointment was reportedly cancelled by Trump himself.
This is how administrations are hijacked from within.
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Charles Koch (Photo By Gavin Peters – Gavin Peters, CC BY-SA 3.0)
This is how administrations are hijacked from within.
“As of today, the incoming Trump Administration has hired over 1,000 people,” President Trump tweeted. “It would be helpful if you would not send, or recommend to us people who worked with, or are endorsed by, Americans for No Prosperity (headed by Charles Koch)”. But by then it was already too late. The Kochers were already on the inside.
The Pentagon is now filled with Kochers and they’re crawling around intelligence. They’re appeasers who support our enemies.
John A. Byers argued that “peaceful coexistence and mutually beneficial prosperity” with China must be the watchwords for a second Trump administration. “The vastness and persistent growth of China’s trade” suggests a “future of mutually assured production rather than mutually assured destruction.”
Byers was a former director of foreign policy at the Charles Koch Foundation and came out of the Albritton Center for Grand Strategy at the Bush School of Government which was funded by the Charles Koch Foundation.
Now there’s another Kocher in who replaced a Kocher whose views were too bad even for his patrons.
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has quietly installed William Ruger, a former Charles Koch Institute vice president and skeptic of military action against Iran, into a key position in her department, according to congressional officials.
“Donald Trump said no Koch people should serve and at some point he’s going to realize that his administration has become littered with them,” said a GOP congressional official.
Last month, Gabbard decided not to give the same job to Daniel Davis, a critic of Israel and skeptic of foreign interventions, after an uproar from pro-Israel advocates over his expected appointment.
Like Davis, Ruger has connections to both the Charles Koch Institute and Defense Priorities, think tanks that have been skeptical of military actions against Iran and take a restrained view on how much the U.S. should intervene abroad.
At this point the policymaking apparatus at the Pentagon and the intel community is Koch territory. And the Koch approach is to prioritize ‘trade’ which is financially profitable for Koch businesses over American interests while trying to dress that up as America First.
This is how administrations are hijacked from within.
The same as the first administration. Both Mike Pence and Kellyanne Conway were Koch people. Both were also tight friends and have intermarried family. Together, they brought in another 44 Koch people, here’s the list from the first administration: https://www.citizen.org/news/koch/
The Koch brothers, Charles and deceased David have never been conservative. They are pro-abortion, gay marriage, open borders, UN Agenda 21/30 and more. American’s for Prosperity is their “controlled opposition” group and they work hand in hand with Heritage Foundation and Federalist Society, Pence and Conway are members respectively and sent Trump to those organizations for lists of potential Supreme Court justices.
Trump has poor discernment regarding the people he has hired, and he certainly has avoided the vetting process especially in this second term.
I’m so very disappointed that Trump has allowed so many Koch people into his administration. This is not good for the US. I’m a Trump supporter, so this truly disturbs me.
oy vay! The Trump administration seems to be absolutely crowded with people who are opposed to Trump’s publicly proclaimed policies. I noticed that that was true in Trump’s first term as well. What’s with him?
Thank God, Charles Koch isn’t Jewish, at least.