On Tuesday, Donald J. Trump overwhelmingly defeated Kamala Harris to become the 47th President and completed the greatest comeback in political history.
With this victory, Trump has cemented his legacy as one of the most important Americans ever to live. His actions have been vindicated in the eyes of the people, and his political realignment will last for generations. He is a living legend and will be revered as such for the rest of his time in office.
The significance of Trump’s presidential victories cannot be erased, but with his reinvigorated star comes the danger of infiltration.
When Trump was ousted via deep state coup and blamed for the Fed-surrection of Jan. 6, the rats were fleeing the ship, and it was easier to see the enemy’s true colors. Now that Trump is back on top, it becomes far more difficult to separate the wheat from the chaff.
Several neocons have positioned themselves to get highly influential roles within the second Trump administration, and this sinister fifth column has the potential to be more harmful to Trump’s America First agenda than his leftist opinion within the Democrat Party. Here are some of the most dangerous examples of this phenomenon:
Mike Pompeo
After being relatively quiet throughout the presidential season, President Trump’s former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo appeared on the campaign trail to advocate for his former boss in the final days heading into Trump’s victory.
“I was proud to be a part of President Trump’s team. I talked to him every day for four years, first as CIA Director and then as Secretary of State. And what I was so proud of is that we understood the greatness of this nation and we never once apologized for the United States of America,” Pompeo said at a Trump rally in Reading, PA, boasting to the audience that the fake news once referred to him as “the most loyal cabinet member to Donald Trump.”
But before it became obvious that Trump was going to rise back into prominence and yet again win the presidency, Pompeo was creating distance and flirting with a potential presidential run of his own. He criticized Trump’s fiscal policies and stated that the Republican Party should reject “celebrity leaders” with “fragile egos” in a thinly veiled shot at Trump. Pompeo even publicly supported Jack Smith’s sham investigation of Trump over the possession of alleged classified documents when it looked like Trump might be jailed.
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A close examination of Pompeo’s record as Secretary of State shows that he deceptively undermined Trump’s America First agenda at every turn. Pompeo created a pipeline of ‘Never Trump’ stalwarts to have roles of prominence within the Trump administration in its first term, including Mary Kissel in the Department of State, James Jeffrey as Syrian war envoy, and the infamous neocon Elliott Abrams as envoy in Venezuela. Pompeo is a brazenly dishonest intelligence community operative, bragging about lying to the American public during a discussion at Texas A&M University in 2019.
“What’s the cadet motto at West Point? You will not lie, cheat, or steal, or tolerate those who do. I was the CIA director. We lied, we cheated, we stole. It’s — it was like — we had entire training courses. It reminds you of the glory of the American experiment,” Pompeo said.
Pompeo also led the charge against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. During the Trump administration, Assange was charged with 18 felonies primarily under the Espionage Act and set for extradition to face a federal show trial. Pompeo wanted to go even further, drawing up plans for the CIA to unlawfully kidnap and even murder Assange to keep him from leaking more government secrets exposing massive corruption.
If Pompeo is placed into the next Trump administration, his history shows he would promote the hegemony of the deep state rather than an authentic America First agenda.
Nikki Haley
Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley emerged as one of the individuals trying to upend President Trump and deny him his rightful chance to avenge the stolen 2020 presidential election. Nevertheless, she is still being floated around as a possible cabinet appointee, and Trump himself has stated that it is a possibility.
Haley is a political chameleon who has changed with the times in ways that are incredibly self-serving. Haley initially rode an endorsement from former Republican Vice-Presidential candidate Sarah Palin into office, winning the South Carolina governorship. After she won the post, Haley immediately had her sights set on Washington D.C. and abandoned her constituents. As a result, she was crushed by Trump in her home state by 20 points in this year’s Republican primary race.
Haley is a war hawk whose foreign policy views are far closer to those of John McCain than Donald Trump. In 2017, she publicly endorsed regime change in Syria and falsely implied that this was the policy of the Trump administration, stating “in no way do we see peace…with Assad as the head of the Syrian government.” Haley has an even more extreme position on Ukraine than what has come from the Biden administration, endorsing Ukraine’s admission into NATO, a move that would likely initiate World War 3.
On the campaign trail, Haley called for Big Brother to doxx and expose all anonymous users of social media, a policy that would have devastating implications against free speech. She stated last year that “every person on social media should be verified by their name” as enforced by federal law under the justification of national security concerns.
As South Carolina Governor, Haley threw rocket fuel on the nascent cause of woke-ism by ordering the removal of the Confederate Flag from the South Carolina state house in 2015.
Haley has also been extremely critical of President Trump and has offered no contrition about her rude and underhanded comments. She frequently criticized President Trump down to the final days of his campaign.
“He’s made it chaotic. He’s made it self-absorbed. He’s made people dislike and judge each other. He’s left that a president should have moral clarity, and know the difference between right or wrong, and he’s just toxic,” Haley said of Trump in January.
“The problem now is he is not the same person he was in 2016. He is unhinged; he is more diminished than he was, just like Joe Biden’s more diminished than what he was. We have to see this for what it is. This is a fact: He is now saying things that don’t make sense,” Haley said of Trump in February.
“This bromance and masculinity stuff, it borders on edgy to the point that it’s going to make women uncomfortable,” Haley said just one week ago. “You have got affiliated PACs doing commercials about calling Kamala the ‘c’ word or speakers at Madison Square Garden, you know, referring to her and her ‘pimps.’ That is not the way to win women. That is not the way to win people who are concerned about Trump’s style.”
Haley’s lack of character and terrible political instincts clearly make her a poor candidate for a cabinet position in the Trump administration.
Pompeo and Haley will be far from the only two infiltrators who attempt to worm their way back into Trump’s good graces and subvert his America First agenda in the administration for their own ends, but they stand as the three most egregious examples of the type of person who should be excluded in the administration.
Personnel is policy, after all, and if Trump is going to execute his national mandate to its fullest, these shady characters and their ilk ought to be expelled from the America First movement for good.