Posted on 09/30/2019 3:57:20 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
DOJ employee in February 2017 predicted resistance by whistle-blowing, leaking to the press, and lodging internal complaints
What is happening now to President Trump was predictable. The plans were laid in plain sight, including the use of whistleblowers to disrupt the administration.
There was plenty of advance warning of various attempts to set up grounds for the impeachment of President Trump.
Consider this excerpt from an article published in Vanity Fair on February 1, 2017, twelve days after Trump’s inauguration :
"Others, however, view resistance as a part of the job. 'Policy dissent is in our culture,' one diplomat in Africa, who signed the letter circulating among foreign diplomats, told The New York Times. “We even have awards for it,” in reference to the State Department’s “Constructive Dissent” award. One Justice Department employee told the Post, 'You’re going to see the bureaucrats using time to their advantage,' and added that 'people here will resist and push back against orders they find unconscionable,' by whistle-blowing, leaking to the press, and lodging internal complaints. Others are staying in contact with officials appointed by President Obama to learn more about how they can undermine Trump’s agenda and attending workshops on how to effectively engage in civil disobedience, the Post reports."
Let me emphasize that again: whistle-blowing, leaking to the press, and lodging internal complaints.
Mollie Hemingway of The Federalist noticed the trend back in the beginning. A few days before the inauguration, she wrote:
"Dwight Eisenhower warned that if we didn’t stay vigilant, the military-industrial complex would start creeping into politics with pernicious motives all its own.
"The intelligence community’s war of leaks against Trump before he’s even taken office is just the latest questionably politicized action in the decades since Eisenhower’s farewell address. And it’s safe to say that the intelligence community pushing unproven and absurd allegations about a president-elect’s sexual perversions is probably way worse than anything Ike imagined.'
Far from discrediting Trump, this paints a worrisome portrait of the deep state gone rogue, desperate to stop a man who is an outsider to Washington.
A warning issued to Trump to beware of ruffling the feathers of the intelligence community was issued by Chuck Schumer:
“Let me tell you, you take on the intelligence community, they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you,” Schumer told MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow.
Remember, this was before Trump was inaugurated.
NeverTrumper David Frum wrote a tweet that said, “CIA message to Trump: you mess with us, get ready for a leakstorm of Biblical proportions.”
No problem, at this point in time the msm cannot claim they are unaware of the rules change and the timing is very queer.
Naw, he is just a gadfly lawyer from New York City. Quotes scripture all the time and professes he is an athiest.
Even stranger is he is has his own bluegrass band and loves WWE wrestlers.
Bump
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