**They're insane ** The Trump White House Circulated A Memo That An Obama Cabal Was Out To Get Them

[DemocratSinceBirth]

In early 2017, some of Donald Trump’s advisers concluded that they faced a sophisticated threat responsible for “coordinated attacks” on the new Administration. They circulated a memo, titled “The Echo Chamber,” which read like a U.S. military-intelligence officer’s analysis of a foreign-insurgent network. Instead of being about enemies in a distant war zone, however, the network described in the memo consisted of former aides to President Barack Obama.

The memo claimed that the “communications infrastructure” that the Obama White House used to “sell Obamacare and the Iran Deal to the public” had been moved to the private sector, now that the former aides were out of government. It called the network the Echo Chamber and accused its members of mounting a coördinated effort “to undermine President Trump’s foreign policy” through organized attacks in the press against Trump and his advisers. “These are the Obama loyalists who are probably among those coordinating the daily/weekly battle rhythm,” the memo said, adding that they likely operated a “virtual war room.” The memo lists Ben Rhodes, a former deputy national-security adviser to President Obama, as “likely the brain behind this operation” and Colin Kahl, Vice-President Joe Biden’s former national-security adviser, as its “likely ops chief.” Rhodes and Kahl both said in interviews that the allegations are false and no such organization exists.


The memo is unsigned and undated, and Trump Administration officials familiar with it offered conflicting accounts of who authored it and whether it originated inside or outside the White House. The officials said that it was circulated within the National Security Council and other parts of the Trump White House in early 2017. They said the memo may have had additional pages. A National Security Council spokesperson declined to comment.


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https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-conspiracy-memo-aimed-at-obama-aides-that-circulated-in-the-trump-white-house

[cutroot]

1. They use fear and hatred as a motivator

[Fred Sanders]

2. I call the Obama loyalists patriots. Battling the evil. Full stop

[Bernardo de La Paz]

3. Amateurs are particularly prone to paranoia because there is so much they do not understand. . . .nt

[sinkingfeeling]

4. "Paranoia strikes deep..."

[superpatriotman]

5. HOW is he still in power????

Religion. End post

[Blue_true]

6. Classic dictator stuff.

Blame your predecessor for all ills, use public outrage to strip people of legal rights, eventually have people too cowed to speak out forcefully, if at all. And if things can be taken to that extent, employ death squads to kill real and perceived opponents.

[VOX]

7. We're stuck in a supremely shitty gangster-political thriller hybrid.

But one with deadly consequences. And there’s no refunds on tickets. We need to destroy the projection booth, before the whole house comes down.

I do not see this mess ending well or cleanly. People have died already at the hands of this fascist administration.

Reality itself is in jeopardy, and the U.S. is starting to flatline.