{"id":1000724,"date":"2021-11-11T21:59:06","date_gmt":"2021-11-12T02:59:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1000724"},"modified":"2021-11-11T21:59:09","modified_gmt":"2021-11-12T02:59:09","slug":"bokhari-trump-white-houses-weapon-against-deep-state-saboteurs-rattles-establishment-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bokhari-trump-white-houses-weapon-against-deep-state-saboteurs-rattles-establishment-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Bokhari: Trump White House&#039;s Weapon Against Deep State Saboteurs Rattles Establishment Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbokhari-trump-white-houses-weapon-against-deep-state-saboteurs-rattles-establishment-media%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1000724&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/rsz_1trumpmcentee_cropped-640x335-1.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">It\u2019s been over a year since the 2020 election, but the establishment media are still addicted to Trump-bashing. Their latest target<em>&nbsp;<\/em>is John McEntee, one of the former Trump White House officials who loyalists to the former president believe was effective in implementing his agenda and cutting down on leaks and disloyalty in the ranks.<\/p>\n<p>McEntee is a subject of a recently published book excerpt from&nbsp;<em>Betrayal,&nbsp;<\/em>from Jonathan Karl,&nbsp;chief Washington correspondent for the establishment broadcaster ABC News.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Published in&nbsp;the <em>Atlantic,&nbsp;<\/em>a magazine now owned by far-left billionaire tech heiress <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/the-media\/2021\/05\/19\/the-new-soros-marlow-media-expose-reveals-immense-secret-power-of-tech-heiress-laurene-powell-jobs\/\">Laurene Powell Jobs, dubbed the \u201cnew Soros\u201d by Breitbart News editor-in-chief Alex Marlow,<\/a>&nbsp;the excerpt is overwhelmingly negative in its assessment of McEntee.<\/p>\n<p>On the plus side, the piece provides a useful guide to Republican voters and Republican presidential hopefuls regarding who can and cannot be trusted in the federal government.<\/p>\n<p>McEntee\u2019s crime, in the eyes of the establishment media, is that he fought back against the efforts of establishment Republicans and permanent bureaucrats to sabotage the Trump presidency\u2013and even worse in their view, he actually succeeded.&nbsp;<em>&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Throughout the Trump years, the media made celebrities of bureaucrats and White House political appointees who leaked against the President, undermined his agenda, or turned on him after exiting the presidency.<\/p>\n<p>Lucrative book deals and media gigs awaited any official, from senior appointees like John Bolton to mid-ranking nobodies like Alexander Vindman, who threw Trump under the bus.<\/p>\n<p>For three years, Trump struggled to solve this problem. Paralyzed by hostile deep state bureaucrats, and inept or disloyal appointees from the Republican establishment, the Trump administration was being smothered by leaks, politically motivated investigations, and two bogus impeachment frenzies.<\/p>\n<p>When John McEntee was appointed to lead the White House Presidential Personnel Office (PPO), as Karl\u2019s book admits, everything changed.<\/p>\n<p>Via&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/ideas\/archive\/2021\/11\/trump-johnny-mcentee-january-6-betrayal\/620646\/\">the <\/a><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/ideas\/archive\/2021\/11\/trump-johnny-mcentee-january-6-betrayal\/620646\/\">Atlantic<\/a>:<\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote readability=\"8\">\n<p>McEntee told the president exactly what he wanted to hear: that his political problems were caused by people who pretended to support him but were really against him, the secret Never Trumpers right there in his administration. It was time to root out the \u201cdeep state.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Karl frames it as surprising that President Trump considered it necessary to search for deep state saboteurs \u201csecret Never Trumpers\u201d in his ranks.<\/p>\n<p>Yet in the same extract, Karl mentions Miles Taylor, a NeverTrump Republican appointee at the Department of Homeland Security, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/09\/05\/opinion\/trump-white-house-anonymous-resistance.html\">who in an anonymous 2018 op-ed for the&nbsp;<\/a><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/09\/05\/opinion\/trump-white-house-anonymous-resistance.html\">New York Times<\/a>&nbsp;<\/em>admitted that he and other officials were ceaselessly working to undermine the President.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Perhaps Karl\u2019s tone of surprise owes less to the fact that there were saboteurs inside the Trump administration, and more to the fact that someone \u2014 McEntee \u2014 decided to do something about it.<\/p>\n<p>Emma Doyle, deputy to then acting Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney (who would later resign and condemn Trump), tried to block McEntee\u2019s appointment, according to Karl.<\/p>\n<p>Why Doyle would want to block the appointment of someone intent on rooting out disloyalty and sabotage is not explained. Regardless, her efforts were unsuccessful. McEntee got the job, and quickly demonstrated his effectiveness at it.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B4\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>Karl himself notes how McEntee and one of his appointees, Josh Whitehouse, cleaned house at the Pentagon and overcame opposition to key items of Trump\u2019s foreign policy agenda: withdrawing from endless wars abroad, and other needless foreign entanglements.<\/p>\n<p>Via&nbsp;the <em>Atlantic:<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"35\">\n<p>In October 2020, Whitehouse helped the Presidential Personnel Office write a series of memos identifying nearly two dozen Pentagon officials they thought should be fired, each outlining transgressions allegedly made against Trump.<\/p>\n<p>The memo on Esper, never before made public, provides remarkable insight into the degree to which McEntee\u2019s team was calling the shots. It includes bullet points outlining Esper\u2019s sins: He \u201cbars the display of the Confederate flag\u201d on military bases; \u201copposed the President\u2019s direction to utilize American forces to put down riots\u201d; \u201cfocused the Department on Russia\u201d; was \u201cactively pushing for \u2018diversity and inclusion\u2019\u201d; and so on. The memo recommended that Esper be fired immediately after the election and replaced by Christopher Miller, then the director of the National Counterterrorism Center.<\/p>\n<p>Six days after the election, Esper was fired and replaced by Miller. McEntee also selected Miller\u2019s senior adviser, Douglas Macgregor, a retired Army colonel and regular guest on Tucker Carlson\u2019s show. As Axios\u2019s Jonathan Swan first reported, McEntee gave Macgregor a handwritten to-do list for the new team at the Pentagon:<\/p>\n<p><em>1. Get us out of Afghanistan.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>2. Get us out of Iraq and Syria.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>3. Complete the withdrawal from Germany.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>4. Get us out of Africa.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is what the president wants you to do,\u201d McEntee told him.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>McEntee was doing what he was supposed to do: finding and firing personnel who had, intentionally or not, failed at enacting the President\u2019s agenda.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA president has a right to expect that his political appointees support his policies and will work to carry them out,\u201d writes Karl.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s precisely what McEntee was doing \u2014 yet Karl, and Emma Doyle, and others who opposed him during the administration, seem to have a problem with it.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a typical sleight of hand from the establishment media. \u201cEvery President\u201d should expect loyalty from his appointees \u2014 except Trump, who was evil, and bad, and wrong, and deserved only disloyalty from officials.<\/p>\n<p>It wasn\u2019t just foreign policy where McEntee and the PPO proved their mettle. Some of the most important issues to the conservative base became White House priorities as a result of the PPO\u2019s efforts.<\/p>\n<p>Big Tech censorship was a top priority for President Trump and his supporters, but it wasn\u2019t for the Deep State, and it wasn\u2019t for NeverTrumpers. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/DELETED-Techs-Battle-Movement-Election\/dp\/154605930X\/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&amp;keywords=deleted+tech&amp;qid=1629414706&amp;s=books&amp;sr=1-1\">As I explain in my book&nbsp;<\/a><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/DELETED-Techs-Battle-Movement-Election\/dp\/154605930X\/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&amp;keywords=deleted+tech&amp;qid=1629414706&amp;s=books&amp;sr=1-1\">DELETED<\/a>,&nbsp;<\/em>it was a key element of the left\u2019s election interference.<\/p>\n<p>Despite Trump frequently addressing the problem in public statements, it wasn\u2019t until McEntee took the reins at PPO that a serious effort was made to tame the tech giants.<\/p>\n<p>He appointed Michigan law professor Adam Candeub to a key position overseeing internet policy, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/tech\/2020\/10\/19\/bokhari-how-the-trump-administration-is-fighting-big-tech\/\">where he led an effort to have the FCC use its rulemaking powers to stop social media censorship. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>And it was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/tech\/2020\/12\/08\/senate-confirms-trump-fcc-pick-nathan-simington\/\">Candeub\u2019s deputy, Nathan Simington<\/a>, who replaced an establishment Republican at the FCC who opposed Section 230 reform.<\/p>\n<p>Former FCC chairman Ajit Pai&nbsp; \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/tech\/2021\/01\/07\/ajit-pai-kills-effort-to-stop-big-tech-censorship-wont-second-guess-trump-ban\/\">another disloyal Trump appointee<\/a> \u2014 torpedoed the efforts in the closing days of the administration after previously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2020\/10\/15\/fcc-chairman-ajit-pai-backs-rulemaking-to-reform-section-230\/\">voicing support<\/a> for it.<\/p>\n<p>There was little McEntee could have done about that \u2014 Pai had been appointed long before his tenure at PPO. Nevertheless, thanks to McEntee\u2019s appointments Big Tech came within a whisker of having its precious censorship rights taken away.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s also critical race theory, now an election-winning issue for Republicans, as demonstrated by the GOP sweep in Virginia.<\/p>\n<p>Critical race theory has existed for years&nbsp;\u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/07\/02\/media-matters-andrew-breitbarts-attack-on-critical-race-theory-appears-to-be-working\/\">Andrew Breitbart wrote about it nearly a decade ago<\/a> \u2014 but it wasn\u2019t until the Trump administration declared war on it that it became a national priority.<\/p>\n<p>That, too, was largely the result of McEntee\u2019s PPO. It was the PPO, with its agents in every executive office, who collected the craziest \u201cdiversity\u201d trainings from across the federal government to build the case against critical race theory. These actions led to Trump\u2019s executive order banning the practice.<\/p>\n<p>Strip away the negative tone of the extract, and all Karl seems to be saying is that the PPO under McEntee actually got the job done for Trump \u2014 and that\u2019s the precise opposite of what the establishment media wanted. To Karl and those like him, disloyalty to the 45th President was patriotism. To McEntee, it was just disloyalty.<\/p>\n<p>Whether Trump regains the White House in 2024 or not, the problem of deep state sabotage will persist, and likely worsen.<\/p>\n<p>On rare occasions, the deep state will even go after Democrat presidents. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/10\/18\/state-department-inspector-general-will-investigate-president-bidens-botched-afghanistan-pullout\/\">Witness the deployment of the office of inspector general<\/a>, one of the unelected bureaucracy\u2019s key weapons, against Biden over the Afghanistan withdrawal.&nbsp;The one major Trump policy that Biden (ineptly) followed through on is the one that gets investigated by the State Department\u2019s inspector general.<\/p>\n<p>A Republican president would face far worse from the deep state. Republicans, unlike Democrats, think the size and power of the federal government are bad. They oppose the pet projects of woke officials like Critical Race Theory and the denial of science on issues of gender.<\/p>\n<p>They think the elected President should run the executive branch, not unelected bureaucrats. Some Republicans (not the swampy ones) even believe that bureaucrats should serve the American people, not the corporations they hope to work for later.<\/p>\n<p>People who can navigate this complex and hostile environment are in short supply.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Allum Bokhari is the senior technology correspondent at Breitbart News.&nbsp;He is the author of&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/DELETED-Techs-Battle-Movement-Election\/dp\/154605930X\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">#DELETED: Big Tech\u2019s Battle to Erase the Trump Movement and Steal The Election.<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s been over a year since the 2020 election, but the establishment media are still addicted to Trump-bashing. 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