It was news in early March when 122 national security experts signed a letter stating their opposition to Donald Trump being President.
Now, some of those same people are ready to work with (or for) Trump and finding their calls are not being returned:
They 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 aren’t 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 nation’s 45th president, the letter signers fear they have been added to another document, this one private — a purported blacklist compiled by Trump’s political advisers.
I’m a bit puzzled they’re surprised this is happening. I guess maybe after they saw Trump give Nikki Haley a spot in his administration, consider Ted Cruz for the Supreme Court and Mitt Romney as Secretary of State, they believed bygones would be bygones.
Apparently not.
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‘Never Trump’ National-Security People Being Blacklisted By Trump Transition Team? https://t.co/6b8Hz7isPL
— RedState (@RedState) January 17, 2017
Trump and his cohorts are petty and vindictive. The supposed consideration of various Never Trumpers for positions in the Trump administration was mostly media speculation, which was probably floated to the media outlets by Trump’s propaganda machine. But Trump and his worshipers do not forget a “slight.”
As for Ambassador Haley – she had better watch her back. She will be set up for a fall.
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