Trump’s ‘Think Tank’ Prepares to Betray Him
Don’t go, Boss! That’s my strong advice to President Trump as he prepares to deliver a speech in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday at his alleged “think tank,” the America First Policy Institute (AFPI).
Yes, it is important for President Trump to have a well-credentialed stable of policy experts capable of both building a 2024 platform and finding solid MAGA talent to populate a new Trump Administration. But the AFPI Trojan Horse—whose leadership is now bragging about how it will staff Trump’s “shadow cabinet”—is decidedly not that.
Most comically, the AFPI roster features the author of a poison pen White House memoir who sued the president; a Communist China-trained accountant who criticized the president for “ineffective drug price policies”; a former Cabinet secretary who almost got Trump impeached; a former top advisor to Dick “Endless War” Cheney; and John “Book Deal” Bolton’s former chief of staff. What could go wrong there?
Most perniciously, the AFPI economics team is peppered with free trade ideologues on record opposing Trump’s tariffs—the most important and transformational component of Donald Trump’s “Make America Great Again” movement. The most famous offender here is Trump’s former National Economic Council Director Larry Kudlow, who is now vice chairman of the AFPI board.
As I document in Taking Back Trump’s America, I had to fight Brother Larry on an almost daily basis, not just on trade policy but also in my efforts to advance Trump’s two most simple rules: buy American, hire American. And Kudlow worked hand-in-hand with several members of Trump’s Council of Economic Advisors (CEA), who now constitute the free trade core of AFPI’s economic experts.
Most egregiously, Casey Mulligan has boasted how Trump’s CEA chairman “would never waver from a free trade position,” and at the White House, Trump’s CEA, by culture and ideology, did everything it could to delay, dilute, and damage Trump’s trade policies.
Incredibly, AFPI also hosts a gaggle of former Trump officials who have publicly criticized him for his “Stop the Steal” efforts and/or falsely implicated him in the January 6 violence. Besides the aforementioned Kudlow along with Kellyanne Conway, this gaggle includes former Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Chad Wolf.
Wolf openly defied President Trump’s order to fire the DHS official in charge of election security who laughably claimed the 2020 election was “the most secure in history.” And Trump pulled Wolf’s nomination for secretary after Wolf lit the Boss up over January 6.
Arguably, the most dangerous AFPI fifth-columnist is former Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal. After the Boss left office, Jindal would insist “Trump was undone by his own predatory nature” and attacked the Boss for his “conspiracy theories and extra-constitutional notions.” Today, Jindal is aggressively pushing a “Trumpism without Trump” agenda.
That may well be AFPI’s broader agenda: Hijack the political attractiveness of Trumpism but replace Trump with an AFPI-anointed RINO. Here, it is worth remembering the Michael Dukakis bon mot: “a fish rots from the head up.”
The fishy CEO of AFPI is Trump’s former Domestic Policy Council director, Brooke Rollins. She recently let slip: “[W]hether the next president’s name is Donald J. Trump or whether the next president is a different name, we will be there standing by ready to help and we’ve already begun preparations for that time.”
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Trump betrayed the People with the jab and still pushes it. Even states because of his work with Pfizer, Moderna, J&J he saved over 100 million lives. Now he says nothing about 6 months old babies getting his great operation warpseed jabs instead of doing everything in his power to stop it.He allowed the lockdowns which destroyed lives, pushed for the fed to return to 0% in 18’ and 40% of all dollars ever created was during his term.
These are critical errors of a man not to be trusted.
And yours is failing to recognize the bigger picture.
Fortunately one man is in the arena, the other, is not.
How are these failing to release the bigger picture? This is the largest experiment on the human population ever. Mounting risk for patients and Trump still backs the jabs? How do folks in the freedom community square this large cognitive dissonance? You cannot counter what the jabs are doing and not point to the one who openly wants credit for operation warpspeed.
Everyone that can’t square this is failing the medical freedom community and backing BOTH Biden, Trump and the Globalists behind this.
Did the bigger picture involve filling Trump’s cabinet with globalists, going along with the WHOs lockdowns which have deformed society? Promoting the FED in creating the largest money supply increase in America’s history?
Baffled how this is not seeing the bigger picture. Don’t worry I will wait for your “Big Picture” clarity.
Because you are not seeing the populism behind why Trump is popular. Its not him, its the movement.
Its a simple answer, which in the broad context solves most of the very problems you, and most other conservatives, are concerned about.
You fail to see how many of us were lost to Trump and the jabs. That is as deformed of a populist movement as it gets. This isn’t 2020 talking points. This is 22’ and you are very behind how much damage and divide comes from promoting Trump. This is splitting with every death and maiming occurring from the jabs which is growing. Inflation/monetary policy? Many of us in freedom movements and especially at the local levels are aware enough the root of this is the Money Supply and FED.
If you really believe the populism is what it was during Trump’s term, you are gravely miscalculating the Crowd. Even stating “solves” leads many down the wrong path for what’s coming.
You didn’t answer the question. I knew you couldn’t.
So Kevin, I want you to give us a better answer, and one that’s feasible. One that’s workable. One that’s actionable. One that is realistic and goes beyond “well, if we all just…” that the conservative media has espoused for three decades now.
Give us that answer. Make sure it’s realistic, workable, and actionable. We don’t want to hear warmed over 90s talking points that led us to where we currently are today. Don’t rehash Glenn Beck. Give us a real answer.
Because two groups actively are in the US currently…the militant left and the populist base behind the MAGA movement.
For me personally I don’t see how the players who stole the election from President Trump in the last go around are going to allow Trump or anyone else to get in the way of their Global Government totalitarian agenda. Nobody has stopped nothing yet. The big ball of evil just keeps on rolling on.
I agree.
Yep. The only thing that was done in the State of Wisconsin was that our State Supreme Court ruled that the unsupervised ballot drop boxes are not legal. Last number I had heard was that there still was 100,000 dead people still on the voter rolls. Not a single other thing was fixed. The Republican legislature did not even try to fix it and put something on the desk of the Demoncrat Governor to veto.