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Stephanie Grisham says group of ex-Trump officials to meet next week to discuss how to 'stop' him
CNN ^ | January 6, 2022 | Veronica Stracqualursi, Betsy Klein and Gabby Orr

Posted on 01/06/2022 3:26:57 PM PST by lowbridge

Former White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham said Thursday that more than a dozen of her former Trump administration colleagues plan to meet next week to try and stop former President Donald Trump as he continues to "manipulate people and divide our country."

"Next week, a group of former Trump staff are going to come together, administration officials are going to come together and we're going to talk about how we can formally do some things to try and stop him and also, the extremism, that that kind of violence, rhetoric that has been talked about and continues to divide our country," Grisham told CNN's John Berman and Brianna Keilar in an interview on "New Day."

Grisham, who was also chief of staff to former first lady Melania Trump, declined to reveal who will be joining her in the efforts, but said there would be "about 15" of her former colleagues, including some who worked inside the White House. Some of the officials, she said, were junior to her, while others were senior. A few of the officials had "informal chats," did outreach to others, and conducted "some Zooms, some conference calls," culminating in the partially in-person formal meeting next week, according to Grisham.

Several people involved in the effort who spoke to CNN said the group currently includes between 15 to 20 individuals who served in the Trump administration, but have since soured on the former President, and who believe his indisputable control of the Republican Party is negatively impacting the country.

Among those invited to participate in the meeting were former senior officials like Chris Krebs, who had directed the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency inside the Department of Homeland Security, and former top White House aides like John Bolton, whom Trump ousted from his role as

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: betsyklein; bidenvoters; chriskrebs; gabbyorr; grisham; kripskrebs; nevertrumpers; stephaniegrisham; stracqualursi; trump; xinn
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1 posted on 01/06/2022 3:26:57 PM PST by lowbridge
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To: lowbridge

More traitors come out of the woodwork.


2 posted on 01/06/2022 3:27:43 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: lowbridge

Oh, Bolton resurfaces again. Who the frick cares?


3 posted on 01/06/2022 3:28:32 PM PST by ilgipper (The mob only destroys. Never creates. )
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To: lowbridge

Bought and paid for. Human chattel.


4 posted on 01/06/2022 3:28:49 PM PST by facedown (Armed in the Heartland)
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To: ilgipper

Maybe someone in FedGov who is looking for the next country to bomb?


5 posted on 01/06/2022 3:30:36 PM PST by packagingguy
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To: lowbridge

Volunteering for a place on the month of the long knives list.


6 posted on 01/06/2022 3:33:17 PM PST by MrBambaLaMamba (Why allow a government of thieves, liars, braggarts, traitors, cowards and perverts? )
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To: lowbridge

If patriotic Americans were like them there would be infiltrators sabotaging their operations.


7 posted on 01/06/2022 3:34:15 PM PST by \/\/ayne (I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper)
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To: lowbridge
Under the new, loose definition of “insurrection”, I’m pretty sure this should be called an insurrection. If just questioning an election is an insurrection, then trying to prevent the most popular candidate for president from being able to run should certainly qualify.

Of course, none of these things are true insurrections (though the past and current efforts of the deep state definitely fit the definition of “sedition”), but words no longer have fixed nor precise meanings in the brave new world.

8 posted on 01/06/2022 3:36:47 PM PST by noiseman (The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.)
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9 posted on 01/06/2022 3:41:32 PM PST by JonPreston (Q: Never have so many, been so wrong, so often)
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To: lowbridge

Not that the Constitution matters these days, but the only qualifications needed to be elected President are: 35 years of age, 14 years of residency, natural born citizen. Based on that how do they intend to stop him?


10 posted on 01/06/2022 3:42:28 PM PST by vortigern
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To: lowbridge

“Lunatic fringe-we know you’re out there-
You’re in hiding and, you hold your meetings”...

People like john Bolton do this s*** in private industry, too-we call them disgruntled/hostile former employees, and they usually file frivolous lawsuits as well as holding meetings...


11 posted on 01/06/2022 3:42:42 PM PST by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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To: lowbridge

Dang, they’re the divisive ones. Trash.


12 posted on 01/06/2022 3:42:53 PM PST by jacknhoo ( Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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who believe his indisputable control of the Republican Party...

Which he holds by let and leave of the voters who support him and support his endorsements and rejections of republican candidates. And you bitter twisted self-serving sellouts just cannot stand someone working for the voters. It sounds like work, something none of these folks have ever done in their lives.

13 posted on 01/06/2022 3:45:27 PM PST by AndyJackson
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To: lowbridge

Gee whiz, Stephanie and unnamed ex Trump officials, isn’t it up to the voters to decide who we want as president?


14 posted on 01/06/2022 3:47:22 PM PST by skeeter
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Ya know....

For a guy who prior to becoming President, was perhaps famous for a TV show about hiring the best people to help run his businesses....

He sure has been lousy at finding people even halfway competent, much less honorable to help him run the nation. Most of them are horrible backstabbers.


15 posted on 01/06/2022 3:47:45 PM PST by LegendHasIt
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To: lowbridge

This is like a reunion with the old timers who hate Trump back to slap each other’s backs and trade exaggerated stories about knifing him in the back or lying about him to the press or dictating “as told to” books to actual writers.

A real shame if Comey, Brennan, McCabe, Bolton, Gen Kelly and all the rest happened to be in one room for a party and something “terrible” happened. So much talent and brain power lost./S


16 posted on 01/06/2022 3:49:28 PM PST by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: lowbridge

Trump’s strength, what made him popular and got him elected was, he is an outsider. The downside of that was, as president he suddenly had to staff a huge number of jobs. Possible three to four thousand. Imagine you’ve just bought a huge company with dozens of businesses you don’t know anything about running. You’d have to staff it from people who were already working there or who were in that industry. Thus, Trump had to turn to the Republican party and outside organizations like “The Federalist’s Society.” None of these people liked Trump. He was an outsider. It would be as if, say, a Chinese national who didn’t even speak your language took over your company. They hated him, but they took his jobs and his money. But they hated him. So, when they say Trump’s former people, they mean people he had to hire to make things run, but who hated him.


17 posted on 01/06/2022 3:51:27 PM PST by Gen.Blather (Wait! I said that out loud?)
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To: lowbridge

Bush League Republicans want their party back so they can go back to assisting the Democrats in destroying the country.


18 posted on 01/06/2022 3:52:47 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin ( (Natural born citizens are born here of citizen parents)(Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: MrBambaLaMamba

As the O’Jays sang in 1972 ———The Backstabbers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmXRQ3vfzcA


19 posted on 01/06/2022 3:53:45 PM PST by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: lowbridge

“declined to reveal who will be joining her in the efforts”

Yeah, probably a good thing for ‘em.

Name those names and watch the shiitestorm begin.

Roll MAGA, roll!


20 posted on 01/06/2022 3:54:37 PM PST by Macoozie (Handcuffs and Orange Jumpsuits)
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