Posted on 11/15/2016 10:55:46 AM PST by TigerClaws
Eliot Cohen, a former State Department official under President George W. Bush, is advising other Republican foreign policy experts to “stay away” from Donald Trump’s transition team just days after he encouraged them to help the president-elect.
"After exchange [with] Trump transition team, changed my recommendation: stay away,” Cohen wrote on Twitter Tuesday morning. “They're angry, arrogant, screaming ‘you LOST!’ Will be ugly.”
ADVERTISEMENT Cohen was the driving force behind a letter signed by dozens of former Republican officials during the campaign denouncing a Trump presidency as “dangerous.”
Last week, however, he struck a more conciliatory tone by trying to reassure those worried about the president-elect.
In a column in the American Interest published days after Trump’s election, Cohen dished out advice for foreign policy experts who have opposed Trump on whether they should accept a job in the administration.
“Yes, with two conditions, however: that they keep a signed but undated letter of resignation in their desk office (as I did when I was in government), and that they not recant a word of what they have said thus far,” Cohen wrote.
Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Mich.) announced early Tuesday that he is leaving Trump's transition team.
Rogers, a former FBI special agent and chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, is highly regarded among GOP leaders and was seen as an invaluable national security voice for the incoming administration.
but......you DID lose!
Whiners on the left of me, babies on the right.
Really need to purge the party of the RINOs.
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I like what I’m seeing.
Sounds like he didn’t get the appointment he wanted so he’s going all sour grapes on team Trump.
I am actually very glad to hear this. The progressive GOP establishment is the current enemy.
We MOST CERTAINLY DON’T NEED to be listening to a BUSH flunky from the State Department. Just damn.
“Former GOP official: ‘Stay away’ from Trump transition”
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Finally - I can agree with a GOPer on something. GOPers stay away!!
Cohen needs to date his letter and go away.
“They’re angry, arrogant, screaming ‘you LOST!’ Will be ugly.”
He must be reading FR. LOL
Donald Trump... the guy who makes all the right people angry.
SO maybe this Rogers guy is best not being on the Trump team.
SO many babies on the right and left...can’t tell the difference!
Awesome news!!!
If Elliot Cohen wants it, I don’t.
Notice how they run out and bitch publicly immediately
The Grand Old Vagina Party
Maybe they can go third party and nominate Megyn Kelly as party head
Appears the RINOs are ticked that Trump’s son-in-law preempted a Christie-led subversion of the Trump agenda.
Well done! The Trumpalooza will NOT be denied!
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oh i hope this is true
I love this story. Why would Trump want those losers around him effing up things!
Who ASKED you, Cohen? And.....ahem, you DID lose. Bye!
Eliot, I don’t believe that applies to everyone. It applies to you. Stay away!
except we’re all cute! lol
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