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Top Trump official calls US airstrikes on Iran ‘pointless,’ suggests ‘deep state’ swayed prez
New York Post ^ | 06/24/2025 | Josh Christensen

Posted on 06/25/2025 4:37:33 AM PDT by vespa300

A top staffer in the federal agency overseeing personnel for the Trump administration has denounced the US strikes on Iran as “pointless” and suggested the decision was made by members of DC’s “deep state.”

Andrew Kloster, who serves as general counsel at the Office of Personnel Management, tweeted — and then deleted — a string of posts ripping the US for having sent “handouts” to Israel in the past and for previously downplaying the threat of Tehran getting a nuclear weapon.

Within a half-hour of President Trump announcing successful US airstrikes on Iranian nuclear facilities Saturday night, Kloster wrote on X, “I apologize and will never again doubt the power of the deep state.”

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To: vespa300
“Andrew Kloster, who serves as general counsel at the Office of Personnel Management,…”

Never heard of this guy. But he's a top staffer in the Personnel Management Department of the Federal Government. Seriously, a real expert in the field of Iran's nuclear materials.

41 posted on 06/25/2025 6:35:16 AM PDT by Chgogal (Voting Democrat is suicidal.)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...
Andrew Kloster, who serves as general counsel at the Office of Personnel Management, tweeted — and then deleted — a string of posts ripping the US for having sent "handouts" to Israel in the past...
OPM... IOW, he's a typical Demwit lawyer career bureaucrat who seemed appropriately far out of the loop, until he made it obvious that he should be asking the customers, "do you wantr fries with that?"

42 posted on 06/25/2025 6:37:44 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: stanne

“What the hell were you thinking? Dumbass!”
Quote from this joker’s wife, about 6 hours ago


43 posted on 06/25/2025 6:45:03 AM PDT by j.havenfarm (24 years on Free Republic, 12/10/24! More than 10,500 replies and still not shutting up!)
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To: vespa300

Trump’s lawyers all suck.


44 posted on 06/25/2025 6:48:31 AM PDT by HYPOCRACY (Wake up, smell the cat food in your bank account. )
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To: stanne

He needs to be fired yesterday. Go President Trump.


45 posted on 06/25/2025 7:07:57 AM PDT by healy61
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To: chuckee
"This two bit personnel lawyer seems to think you should always ask the personnel director for tactical military advice before you bomb a nuclear site."

That's the way its been since trump came on the scene. The lawyers VS the businessman. They hate the fact that a businessman has the Presidency. THAT belongs to them....or so they think.

46 posted on 06/25/2025 7:08:10 AM PDT by unread
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To: vespa300

CLEAN OUT YOUR DESK, DUMMY.


47 posted on 06/25/2025 7:17:59 AM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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To: vespa300

Time for Kloster to have his employment terminated.


48 posted on 06/25/2025 7:21:44 AM PDT by libertylover (The HBM (Has Been Media) is almost all AGENDA-DRIVEN, not-truth driven.)
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To: vespa300

Should be. This guy has been an unstable loose cannon since the start.


49 posted on 06/25/2025 7:22:16 AM PDT by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative. )
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To: vespa300

Is he a leftover from the previous administration? Either way, he’s toast; probably leftover toast.


50 posted on 06/25/2025 7:27:00 AM PDT by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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To: 9YearLurker

The fact that you agree with this leftist turncoat says more about you than anything else.


51 posted on 06/25/2025 7:27:49 AM PDT by ohioman
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To: vespa300

Next job will be the burn detail. Cut in half 55 gallon drums full.


52 posted on 06/25/2025 7:31:57 AM PDT by going hot (Happiness is a Momma Deuce)
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To: vespa300

Likely. But let’s not pretend that a significant number of people on this site argued the same about the deep state from 17-21.


53 posted on 06/25/2025 7:35:07 AM PDT by 3RIVRS
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To: stanne
Trump is not run by ye deep state. You cannot give any example of such a thing

🤔🤔🤔


54 posted on 06/25/2025 8:43:27 AM PDT by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aidera)
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To: mac_truck

I operate by logic

If you can connect your post to anything I asked or said let me know.

Waste of time


55 posted on 06/25/2025 8:52:49 AM PDT by stanne (Because they were mesmerized by Obama, the man for whom this was named, whose name they left out of )
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Buh bye, Andy...

“Kloster, who is now responsible for advising the government’s H.R. department, has a long history of racist and sexist online comments and social media posts.

In a [2012] response to a post on The Volokh Conspiracy legal blog, as reported by The Daily Beast, Kloster wrote, ‘Consent is probably modern society’s most pernicious fetish.’ He also has written online [in 2023] that ‘Slaves owe us reparations.’ In 2023 ... he tweeted, ‘I need a woman who looks like she got punched.’”


56 posted on 06/25/2025 8:56:25 AM PDT by StAnDeliver (TrumpII)
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To: vespa300
A top staffer in the federal agency overseeing personnel for the Trump administration ... Andrew Kloster, who serves as general counsel at the Office of Personnel Management

A deep state lawyer bureaucrat that just happens to be a civil service holdover is not exactly a "Top Trump official".

Also he is probably nowhere near what we would consider to be an expert on the subject. Just an opinionated jackass that will be fired by the end of today.

57 posted on 06/25/2025 8:58:35 AM PDT by pfflier
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To: stanne

If you’re dumb enough to question whether the deep state exerts influence on Trump but too dumb to acknowledge a clear example of that influence I can’t help you.


58 posted on 06/25/2025 11:25:16 AM PDT by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aidera)
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To: mac_truck

That doesn’t answer the question


59 posted on 06/25/2025 11:32:50 AM PDT by stanne (Because they were mesmerized by Obama, the man for whom this was named, whose name they left out of )
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To: mac_truck

Calling people dumb in an ad hominem attack on a fellow creeper instead of explaining how your post of some obscure reference to some future NATO commander - does not answer the question

Stop wasting my time


60 posted on 06/25/2025 11:45:16 AM PDT by stanne (Because they were mesmerized by Obama, the man for whom this was named, whose name they left out of )
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