MAGA Blows Up Over Trump’s Baffling Endorsement in Tennessee… But It’s Even Worse Than They Think

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[NoLibZone]

A baffling Trump endorsement in Tennessee has caused quite a stir in MAGA country. If you haven’t been paying close attention to political minutiae lately, Politico has the story:

Former President Donald Trump is facing serious backlash from die-hard loyalists over his decision to intervene in a Tennessee House race, with his supporters accusing him of spurning a staunch Republican ally who’s running. Trump on Tuesday evening endorsed Morgan Ortagus, who served as a State Department spokesperson during his administration and is pondering a run for a Middle Tennessee-based congressional district. The announcement has caused a firestorm, with far-right, high-profile backers ranging from North Carolina Rep. Madison Cawthorn to conservative activist Candace Owens taking to social media to voice their support for Robby Starbuck, a rival candidate who’s been a mainstay of the pro-Trump movement. [Politico] Is this all just a tempest in a teapot? Our research indicates this Trump endorsement is even worse than you might have thought at first glance. Megan Ortagus might be President Trump’s former State Department spokesperson, but she holds GOP establishment neocon views that are diametrically opposed to the America First, MAGA-movement.

Mere hours after Trump’s endorsement, The National Pulse publicized statements Ortagus had made vowing to “faithfully [serve] the incoming Biden Administration,” and trashing Trump back during the 2016 race. It turns out that, in 2016, she dutifully repeated all of the Never Trump talking points of the GOP establishment:

“You have somebody who makes fun of people with mental and physical disabilities. That’s disgusting; there’s no other way around it,” remarked Ortagus in January 2016 during an interview with Fox News. Ortagus, while working for a super PAC associated with Trump’s primary opponent former Florida Governor Jeb Bush, said she “fundamentally disagree[d]” with Trump’s approach to foreign policy. “In his gut, he does not think that Americans should be, quote unquote, the policemen of the world,” she said during a 2016 panel discussion dissecting Trump’s foreign policy speech. “I don’t see it that way. I think that America is the glue that holds the world together. … So there were points that I agreed with him today, but overall, I fundamentally disagree with his isolationist approach to foreign policy,” she added. Ortagus and her second husband were married by the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, in 2000. [National Pulse] Getting married by Ruth Bader Ginsburg might simply reflect a profound lack of taste in Ortagus’ personal life that can be overlooked, but championing America as the “policemen of the world,” casting President Trump’s policies as “isolationist,” and stating that she “fundamentally disagrees” with Trump’s America First, Jacksonian approach to foreign policy are political sins that cannot be forgiven.

Of course, many people criticized Donald Trump in 2016, and later came around on the importance of the political realignment he led. The issue with Ortagus, however, isn’t limited to her criticism of Trump—it’s her clear failure to have learned anything after serving in his administration.

If Ortagus is elected to the House, she will become one of the most extreme warhawks in the Republican Party—a natural ally of figures like Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger. Her Twitter timeline features a cascading list of demands that America get involved in a dizzying array of foreign entanglements.

Ortagus calls for the US government to ship more weapons to Ukraine, immediately:

[DoughtyOne]

They do love to make it look like dissension in the ranks.

[DoughtyOne]

If you moved into Washington, would you know every player?

You have people you trust to research and help you make a
selection. If RINOs get into a position of trust, they can
cost you.

Even if you know the Republicans don’t like you, you’d at
least hope they would suggest good people for the nation.

Nope!

[DoughtyOne]

I can’t say yes or no on that. It could be.

[DoughtyOne]

Do you think he knew each one of them personally before going
to Washington?

Someone is helping with these selections.

Ultimately, it falls on him, but I’m thinking people who
didn’t want him to succeed, and favored the globalist
group think, was in on it.

[bramps]

Because Ginsburg was a neighbor 25 years ago. That’s relevant. Not how she worked with Pompeo in Trump’s admin.
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Yes. The RBG angle speaks to who she is deep in her soul.

Her ‘successfully’ working for Pompeo coupled with being a fan ( there’s no other way to see it) of RBG says she’s little more than an ambitious politician and the last candidate a conservative should be backing.

Trump did a lot of great things while President and they all turned out to be meaningless because he never dealt with the rot at our the core of our government. And any woman that was a fan of Jeb Bush and RBG is part of that rotten core.

... and she was probably pushed on Trump by Ivanka and Jared which really makes me throw up.

[frnewsjunkie]

Trump is dead wrong on this one..

Reminds me of the blond gov kemp gave the senate seat to..GA... And she lost that seat.. Which gave the senate to the dems

[frnewsjunkie]

Is anyone relaying all this to Trump?

Starbuck is 33.. Wise beyond his years!

Wake up Trump!!!

[conservative98]

You're right. It doesn't matter. This is a grotesque propaganda operation to make Trump look dumb, ignoring what she did while working with Pompeo.

I mean a lot of people were like that till trump won them over— PANDEAF513 (@pandeaf513) January 26, 2022

Exactly. After he got in office & they saw all he was doing many changed their minds about him. Republicans & democrats. Many dems switched parties bc of him.— RudiTuesday (@RudiTuesdays) January 26, 2022

Imagine thinking this makes her look bad, lol. Morgan is an incredible public servant with foreign policy experience spanning 3 admins incl. negotiating historic peace deals under Trump. Congress needs more people like her, and less of showboats that keep picking dumb fights.— Firdous (@Firdous_096) January 26, 2022

She did work under Mike Pompeo when he was Secretary of State. She performed well within Trump’s administration supporting MAGA.— Sherri Vermaat (@SherriVermaat) January 27, 2022

[MayflowerMadam]

She must go.

[M_Continuum]

Well Pompeo did attend the Bilderberg 2019 meeting in 2019. Trump was the first president to attend Davos in 22 years (preceded by Clintoon in 2000). Clinton attended once. Trump in 2018 and 2020. Is that not Global? Why do they get a pass?

[MayflowerMadam]

We don’t want the bimbo here in TN.

[miserare]

She is easy on the eyes, and quite intelligent.

[conservative98]

Wrong again, gramps. Turns out it was her husband who lived in the apartment next door to RBG and had RBG’s husband as a professor at Georgetown and asked. You have always had such a hate on for Trump, pushing propaganda and pseudo-events.

[conservative98]

Mike Pompeo was a great Secretary. The incessant hate for every Trump pick is insane.

[bramps]

So it’s okay to be a fan of one of the biggest liberal freaks in history because your fiance lived next door to them?

You should be grateful that he didn’t live next door to Charles Manson or you’d be making even a bigger ass out of yourself.

[M_Continuum]

Truth is not hate. That is a leftist tactic. Is Pompeo’s attendance at the Bilderberg meeting and Trump’s 2 trips to Davos (Globalists) OK with you?

[M_Continuum]

What about Barr who had ties to Epstein going back to the 70’s as well as his father who hired him to teach at his prestigious school, without proper cred’s. What about Acosta who made the sweetheart deal for Epstein. Were they good picks? Do they get a pass too?

[frnewsjunkie]

Ya all are so intent on saving Trump, you’re forgetting there is another running also.

He is so impressive.. She cant compare.. And I really detest a pretty gal gettubg her way with men..

Sonetimes men are so gullible..
I would not believe Trump would pick her.. Not DJT...

Kemp did.. And we all are paying for it.
Doug Collins could have won it..

Didnt mean to step on any toes...

[qaz123]

Anyone can say what they want about the endorsement. At the end of the day it’s up to the people and voters.

Let them tell President Trump he’s screwing up, by voting for Starbuck and sending her back to DC for a consulting job.

[DazedVet]

You like DJT and I thought that he was incredible but I am beginning to wonder where’s he getting/taking advice? I hope Jared Kushner and Ivanka are totally out of his life. This Morgan is a TV personality not a principaled conservative.