This is how administrations are hijacked from within.
“As of today, the incoming Trump Administration has hired over 1,000 people,” President Trump tweeted. “It would be helpful if you would not send, or recommend to us people who worked with, or are endorsed by, Americans for No Prosperity (headed by Charles Koch)”. But by then it was already too late. The Kochers were already on the inside.
The Pentagon is now filled with Kochers and theyre crawling around intelligence. They’re appeasers who support our enemies.
John A. Byers argued that “peaceful coexistence and mutually beneficial prosperity” with China must be the watchwords for a second Trump administration. “The vastness and persistent growth of China’s trade” suggests a “future of mutually assured production rather than mutually assured destruction.”
Byers was a former director of foreign policy at the Charles Koch Foundation.and came out of the Albritton Center for Grand Strategy at the Bush School of Government which was funded by the Charles Koch Foundation.
Now there’s another Kocher in who replaced a Kocher whose views were too bad even for his patrons.
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has quietly installed William Ruger, a former Charles Koch Institute vice president and skeptic of military action against Iran, into a key position in her department, according to congressional officials.
“Donald Trump said no Koch people should serve and at some point he’s going to realize that his administration has become littered with them,” said a GOP congressional official.
Last month, Gabbard decided not to give the same job to Daniel Davis, a critic of Israel and skeptic of foreign interventions, after an uproar from pro-Israel advocates over his expected appointment.
Like Davis, Ruger has connections to both the Charles Koch Institute and Defense Priorities, think tanks that have been skeptical of military actions against Iran and take a restrained view on how much the U.S. should intervene abroad.
At this point the policymaking apparatus at the Pentagon and the intel community is Koch territory. And the Koch approach is to prioritize ‘trade’ which is financially profitable for Koch businesses over American interests while trying to dress that up as America First.
This is how administrations are hijacked from within.
