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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNever Trump national-security Republicans fear they have been blacklisted
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/never-trump-national-security-republicans-fear-they-have-been-blacklisted/2017/01/16/a2fadf54-d9a3-11e6-b8b2-cb5164beba6b_story.html?utm_term=.297c0103b567They are some of the biggest names in the Republican national security firmament, veterans of past GOP administrations who say, if called upon by President-elect Donald Trump, they stand ready to serve their country again.
But their phones arent ringing. Their entreaties to Trump Tower in New York have mostly gone unanswered. In Trump world, these establishment all-stars say they are PNG personae non gratae.
Their transgression was signing one or both of two public Never Trump letters during the campaign, declaring they would not vote for Trump and calling his candidacy a danger to the nation.
One letter, with 122 names, was published by War on the Rocks, a website devoted to national security commentary, during the primary season in March. The other, with 50 names, including some repeat signatories, was published by the New York Times during the general-election campaign in August.
Now, just days before Trump is sworn in as the nations 45th president, the letter signers fear they have been added to another document, this one private a purported blacklist compiled by Trumps political advisers.
The president-elect has virtually no experience in national security and foreign policy, and his transition team could presumably benefit from the broadest pool of applicants for the influential appointive positions in the State Department, Pentagon and Department of Homeland Security.
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Never Trump national-security Republicans fear they have been blacklisted (Original Post)
Jimbo101
Jan 2017
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onecaliberal
(32,882 posts)1. The trump people will never be in the know because they are not trusted
Renew Deal
(81,869 posts)2. Why would they want to be part of a "danger to the nation?"
Because they are hypocrites and liars.
Jacob Boehme
(789 posts)3. Trump and his cannibal team are sitting around the campfire...
....eating the remains of a vanquished National Security Group, when one of them turns to his Trump and asks:
"Hey, are you having a good time?" Trump answers: "Oh, yeah! I'm havin' a ball!"
"Hey, are you having a good time?" Trump answers: "Oh, yeah! I'm havin' a ball!"
dhol82
(9,353 posts)4. Wonder if they will feel empowered to fight for reality?
Or, just grovel and fade into the mists of history.
Decisions, decisions.