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Posted on 04/28/2025 7:56:11 AM PDT by MtnClimber
I will admit, when I first read that Susan Rice was still ensconced on the Defense Policy Board well into the new Trump administration, I thought it must surely be fake news, some hallucination conjured by an overactive internet rumor mill. Yet, with the bitter taste of disbelief still fresh, the facts became clear. Not only had she lingered, she had lingered officially, and with all the institutional imprimatur the position carries. It is the sort of stunning oversight that shakes one's faith in the assumption that elections carry consequences.
Rice, a veteran of Obama-era foreign policy failures and perhaps best remembered for her calculatedly deceptive Sunday show performances following the Benghazi disaster, was somehow still whispering counsel into the halls of the Pentagon in 2025. Her known hostility to President Trump, his America First doctrine, and the foundational pillars of his administration did not, apparently, disqualify her. Her presence was not merely inappropriate, it was absurd, a lingering ghost from an administration the voters had quite emphatically rejected.
Thankfully, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth acted swiftly. Upon confirming the disgraceful truth, he took the only responsible course available: he discharged the entire cadre of Pentagon advisory board members, wiping the slate clean. Yet the discovery of Rice's lingering influence opened a larger question in my mind. How many other advisory boards, spread across the vast administrative sprawl of Washington, remained populated by individuals not just ideologically distant from the president but openly hostile to his agenda?
When I dug deeper, the findings were no less alarming.
At the State Department, Thomas Donilon, a consummate Democratic insider who served as Barack Obama's National Security Advisor, continued to co-chair the Foreign Affairs Policy Board. Donilon, whose worldview is saturated in the globalist dogmas that Trumpism explicitly rejects, was not some neutral technocrat offering dispassionate advice. He was, and remains, a committed architect of the very foreign policy status quo that voters repudiated.
Serving alongside Donilon was Cecilia Muñoz, another alumnus of the Obama White House, celebrated in progressive circles for her aggressive domestic policy advocacy. That she too advised the State Department in 2025 suggests not malevolent intent by Trump officials, but the lingering inertia of an entrenched bureaucracy and the sheer pace at which the new administration had to operate.
The situation at the President's Intelligence Advisory Board was equally disquieting. Janet Napolitano, former Obama DHS Secretary and Democratic governor, lent her counsel, as did Evan Bayh, a loyal son of the Democratic establishment. Jane Harman, the California Democrat whose tenure on the House Intelligence Committee made her a fixture of Beltway orthodoxy, also held a seat, alongside Calvin Smyre, the "Dean" of Georgia Democrats.
It must be said: these appointments were not acts of sabotage, they were inherited artifacts of the prior administration, relics that had, perhaps through bureaucratic oversight, been allowed to persist longer than they should have. The Trump administration, moving at a breakneck pace to secure cabinet confirmations, implement executive orders, and dismantle the administrative state's more overt structures, may not have fully cleared the decks of every board and commission.
The President’s Export Council, ostensibly a forum for economic growth, suffered from a similar inertia. Keisha Lance Bottoms, former Atlanta mayor and Democratic partisan, advised on export matters, flanked by Lacy Johnson, a Democratic operative from Indiana, Patrick Murphy, a Democratic former congressman from Florida, and Juan Verde, a Democratic strategist from the Obama Commerce Department....SNIP
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There is still much house cleaning that must be done.
She should be banned from contacting anyone in the DOD...............
These were obvious people that should have been dumped from the beginning.
DC is so full of communist snakes.
How could they let this happen?
Perhaps most of Trump’s staff didn’t know exactly who she is. Maybe they are less “News Obsessed” than I am , and busy with their individual job duties.
When did Rice crawl out from under her rock? She’s Ms. Obnoxious USA.
I stopped right there. Who's calling them "failures" when it looks more like to me that they succeeded at least partially in their efforts to take down "white Christian Amerika," in part by empowering Iranian efforts to build nuclear ICBMs.
Sounds an awful lot like insurrection. Hopefully her pro-Trump son will find the dirt and turn her in.
Rice was likely part of the cabal that ran the country during Biden’s four year dementia fog. She well could have been one of the architects of Biden’s disastrous foreign policy.
Biden’s foreign policy scams made a lot of people wealthy.
It may have been a failure in our eyes but it was glorious for them.
If you count the miltary, over 4 million people work for the Executive Branch, and anyone who expects Trump to personally review and vet every one of them in the first 100 days is a moron.
These type of people are all in the business of GOVERNMENT.
They probably have never been in the private sector.
They go from one federal agency job to the next.
Eventually, they retire with a nice pension and move to Florida.
I have seen this in the state of NH too. I know a guy who has worked for the NH state police, NH prison system and now the NH DMV. He is a nice guy, but he has never worked in the private sector his entire life. He will be retiring soon with a nice pension.
I have another friend who was in the US NAVY. Then he worked for the NH liquor commission. Now he works for the NH prison system. He has never been employed by any private sector entity.
Trump needs a Jethro.
She is fluent in the Russian language.
hence the word "deep state."
It serves two purposes. 1) it gives her an income. These lifetime government parasites still have daily expenses. 2) and more important, it keeps the woke-left involved in policy - to watch it, manipulate it, disrupt it, leak it to the media, etc...
That’s a good plan...................
The easy housecleaning is to rid the executive branch of ALL these “advisory boards”. They are all Congressional and former White house devised means to secure “policy” places they can entrench their continued influence and presence against every incoming administration.
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I hope her security clearance was revoked as well…
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