{"id":2397752,"date":"2025-02-01T09:34:02","date_gmt":"2025-02-01T14:34:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/media-want-insubordination-not-independence-in-trumps-admin\/"},"modified":"2025-02-01T09:34:29","modified_gmt":"2025-02-01T14:34:29","slug":"media-want-insubordination-not-independence-in-trumps-admin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/media-want-insubordination-not-independence-in-trumps-admin\/","title":{"rendered":"Media Want Insubordination, Not &#8216;Independence&#8217; In Trump&#8217;s Admin"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/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%2Fmedia-want-insubordination-not-independence-in-trumps-admin%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=2397752&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--><p>The\u200c excerpt discusses the perceived dynamics between \u200dDemocrats, the \u2062media, and\u200b Donald Trump&#8217;s presidency. It argues that both democrats and the \u200dmainstream media do not want\u200d Trump to succeed, and one way they may undermine his\u2062 governance \u2064is by encouraging subversion\u2062 from within. Critics of this maneuvering, such as reporter Jonathan Swan from The New York Times, highlight that Trump\u200d and his allies \u2064are\u2064 actively seeking to eliminate any independence \u200cwithin the\u2063 executive branch. <\/p>\n<p>The \u200ctext suggests that calls for &#8220;independence&#8221; among <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/schiff-nadler-call-flynn-pardon-abuse-of-power\/\" title=\"Schiff, Nadler Call Flynn Pardon &#039;Abuse of Power&#039;\">government officials<\/a> are often a euphemism for insubordination, were individuals are expected \u200bto\u2062 oppose Trump&#8217;s directives rather than \u2062<a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">provide constructive advice<\/a>. The author points \u200bout that individuals who have publicly defied Trump during \u200bhis first term have been celebrated in\u2064 the media, portraying their actions as heroic. the language of \u200c&#8221;independence&#8221; is described as a tool\u200d to ensure compliance wiht Democratic and media expectations,while Democrats are rarely scrutinized for their loyalty or independence. Ultimately, the piece posits that what Democrats truly desire\u200b is not independence, but a willingness to rebuff the elected president&#8217;s authority.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Neither Democrats nor the Washington-based news media want Donald Trump&rsquo;s presidency to succeed and one of the most effective ways to ensure it doesn&rsquo;t is for people to sabotage his administration from within, as was often the case in his first term.<\/p>\n<p>But they don&rsquo;t explicitly acknowledge that reality. They instead cloak the subversion in nobility by referring to &ldquo;independent&rdquo; administration officials or cabinet appointees whom they urge to &ldquo;exercise independence.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>On Friday&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/01\/31\/podcasts\/the-daily\/trump-guantanamo-confirmation-rfk.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">episode<\/a> of The New York Times&rsquo; &ldquo;The Daily&rdquo; podcast, reporter Jonathan Swan said Trump and his closest allies are &ldquo;scouring the executive branch, looking for any pockets of independence and removing them.&rdquo; Likewise, during the confirmation hearing for Trump&rsquo;s pick for attorney general Pam Bondi, Democrat Sen. Chris Coons <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coons.senate.gov\/news\/press-releases\/senator-coons-presses-attorney-general-nominee-pam-bondi-for-reassurance-that-she-will-maintain-department-of-justices-independence-during-judiciary-confirmation-hearing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said<\/a>, &ldquo;One of the concerns I&rsquo;ve raised &hellip; is safeguarding the Department of Justice&rsquo;s independence&hellip;&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The point is to frame disobedience to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/history-repeats-itself-democrats-are-using-tactics-of-the-marxists-of-1917-in-russia-to-steal-2020-election\/\" title=\"History Repeats Itself: Democrats Are Using Tactics of the Marxists of 1917 in Russia to Steal 2020 Election\">duly elected president<\/a> as an act of nobility. When they say &ldquo;independence,&rdquo; they don&rsquo;t mean an enthusiasm for critical thinking and personal experience that could be useful in offering advice to form the president&rsquo;s thinking. What they mean is insubordination, a readiness to rebuke direction from Trump that will once again derail the agenda he was elected to implement.<\/p>\n<p>Every elected Republican and &ldquo;career civil servant&rdquo; (aka government bureaucrat) who did that in Trump 1.0 was turned into a media hero: Liz Cheney, Adam Kinzinger, Alexander Vindman, Miles Taylor (who?!), Mark Milley, James Comey, Andrew McCabe, Christopher Wray, John Brennan and on and on and on.<\/p>\n<p>Each one of those &ldquo;independent&rdquo; fellows proved their courage by undermining the person to whom power was bestowed by the voters. To be called &ldquo;independent&rdquo; by Democrats and the media is to do everything Democrats and the media want you to do. Amazing how that works.<\/p>\n<p>When The New York Times and Democrat senators say they have concerns about the &ldquo;independence&rdquo; of some appointee or federal agency that falls under the president&rsquo;s purview, what they mean is they want some assurance that this appointee or that agency will rebuke Trump&rsquo;s directives. They want to know whether they can still count on forces within the administration that will work on their behalf and thwart the president.<\/p>\n<p>Note that Democrats are never asked about their &ldquo;loyalty&rdquo; or &ldquo;independence.&rdquo; They will do exactly what the media and party leadership expect. There&rsquo;s no question. They often don&rsquo;t even have to be told what to do. They all know what&rsquo;s expected of them, <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/08\/11\/bidens-doj-knows-exactly-what-to-do-to-his-political-opponents-without-needing-to-be-told\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">as when<\/a> Joe Biden&rsquo;s attorney general Merrick Garland set about criminally prosecuting Trump during the 2024 election. Biden assured the public that he would never interfere while his Justice Department shook down his political opponent. Independence!<\/p>\n<p>They don&rsquo;t cherish independence. They want insubordination.<\/p>\n<hr><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats and the media seek to undermine Trump&#8217;s presidency<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":493,"featured_media":2397753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Pam-Bondi.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[9224,25208,5157,4188,32640],"class_list":["post-2397752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-independence","tag-insubordination","tag-journalism","tag-media","tag-trump-administration"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Pam-Bondi.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2397752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/493"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2397752"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2397752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2397756,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2397752\/revisions\/2397756"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2397753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2397752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2397752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2397752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}