Former Trump Officials Plot to Block Donald’s Return to White House – Opinion

Welp, This got ugly, fast. On Monday night, a group of ex-Trump administration officials called a conference call to discuss their plans to disrupt a possible 2024 presidential bid. There is one problem. TheyI believe that such a plot would prove difficult.

Participating in the call, as reported by CNN — who else? — were:

• John Kelly, former Chief of Staff to the White House
• Alyssa Farah Griffin, former Communications Director
• Anthony Scaramucci, former Communications Director
• Elizabeth Neumann was a former Department of Homeland Security official
• Chris Krebs, former Director of Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency
• John Bolton was a former National Security Advisor. Sarah Tinsley is his top aide.
• Ex-Hands on and Counterterrorism Advisor to Vice President Pence Olivia Trove
• Miles Taylor, former Chief of Staff at DHS

Taylor, who wrote an op-ed and book critical of the Trump White House as “Anonymous,” led the call.

As You can smile with joy Not noted by CNN, the only items the group agreed on were that they’re not sure — although they were “flowing with ideas” about how to get the job done, including “shining a light” on Trump’s corporate contributors and targeting “extremist” candidates endorsed by Trump for state and local races — and that they are “way behind” in figuring out an effective strategy.

Taylor, Said

We all agreed passionately that letters and statements don’t mean anything. The two operative words are ‘electoral effects.’ How can we have tangible electoral effects against the extremist candidates that have been endorsed by Trump?

CNN heard from another participant.

We’re still trying to figure out what it is” that we want to do [but]This is not a trolling business, and it’s more than just a commercial.

Bolton, fired by Trump in September 2019, infamously became a “harsh critic of Trump’s fitness for office,” said CNN. He was not on the call but instead sent his top aide, Sarah Tinsley, who shared “polling information” the Bolton super PAC has been collecting that suggests “Trump’s hold on the GOP is weakening.” (Umm?) Tinsley said the polling shows Trump’s favorability is declining with registered Republicans and right-leaning independents, but even CNN questioned the claim:

The data seems to contradict public polling such as a November 2021 Marquette University Law School poll in which 60% of Republicans say they would like Trump to run for president in 2024, and 73% say they see him favorably.

Either way, there’s an interesting dynamic going on here.

These people — sans their obsession with Trump — are not all on the same page politically, suggesting they would find it difficult to agree on a path forward. It’s one thing to oppose “candidate A” and quite another to support “candidate B” or perhaps several “candidate Bs” (double entendre?) The Republican Party is committed to moving ahead. Must Do in 2024It doesn’t matter if Trump is nominated.

Let’s just say that resolving the 2020 election dispute would result in a win. Not be part of a winning strategy, like it or not — except as a rallying cry for the believers who are already in that camp and always Will be. (Skewer away. I’m more than capable of taking it.

CNN reports that the group plans to hold a second telephone session next week.

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