A Tale of Treachery Far Beyond the Pale
On the day before “open” public testimony begins, regarding Democrat attempts to impeach President Donald Trump, comes a tale of treachery far beyond the pale of anything close to acceptable behavior.
No, in this instance we are not talking about Obama or Clinton holdovers in the CIA, FBI or State Department, who have been beside themselves since Donald Trump had the unmitigated nerve to beat Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election. Nor are we talking about career apparatchiks, residing in the District of Columbia or in its suburbs of Virginia and Maryland, who have never voted for a Republican in their entire adult lives- much less a Republican who has the “cojones” to fight back in a way no Republican has since Teddy Roosevelt used the bully pulpit to fight against the corruption endemic to the Democrat Party of his own era.
Granted, there have been many instances in both of these regards, of deep state insiders who have colluded and conspired to sabotage Trump’s candidacy, and subsequently bring down the forty-fifth President or marginalize his presidency in an effort to prevent his re-election. Such people (and there are hundreds) checked their ethics and sense of propriety at the door many years ago, all in the service of globalist leaders, going back decades, who ensured their continued employment and all its perks at the expense of taxpayers.
No, what we are talking about here are individuals in whom the duly elected President of the United States entrusted to carry out his policies and support his initiatives to the very best of their abilities. Both former Chief of Staff John Kelly and former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson came highly recommended by members of both political parties and their respective nominations sailed through Senate oversight committees with relative ease. Yet, there was something sinister and treacherous in the ways these two individuals chose to carry out their responsibilities that are more reprehensible than anything Democrats in the House are doing in the conduct of their impeachment inquiry.
In her new book, With All Due Respect, former South Carolina Governor and Trump’s former Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley tells of an instance where both Kelly and Tillerson approached her with a request to aid in their clandestine efforts to work around and thus subvert President Trump in the pursuit of his own foreign policy. Haley, who is not afraid to criticize President Trump, and has on several occasions, nevertheless rejected the entreaties proffered by Kelly and Tillerson, telling them that if they object to what the President is doing, they should take their concerns directly to the President himself.
“It was their decisions, and not the President’s, that were in the best interests of America, they said and the president didn’t know what he was doing,” wrote Haley.
Talk about arrogance in the pursuit of policy. Neither Tillerson nor Kelly were ever elected by anyone, and now we know fully well how and why their nominations faced minimal opposition from Democrats who almost jerk their knees to take down any Trump nomination.
In a word, they were “plants.”
Whatever honors that Mr. Tillerson and General Kelly accrued during the course of their respective careers in corporate America and in the United States Marines, have now been sullied in the muck of their own making.
To put it plainly, John Kelly and Rex Tillerson are pond scum, not worthy of respect by anyone with an ounce of ethical or moral decency, nor anyone who believes in the rule of law or the Constitution of the United States.
That President Donald J. Trump has been able to accomplish anything, in light of all of the many forces allayed against him during the last three years, is incredible in and of itself. The fact that he has accomplished so very much, in the face of almost universal opposition from the deep state of Washington insiders and their minions in the mainstream media, places him at the pantheon of Presidents who have put God and country, first.
Moreover, considering the degree to which President Donald Trump is hated by so many on both sides of the aisle- and even in his own White House, no less, tells me that his is an altruistic fight of good versus evil, calling to mind what Jesus faced with the Pharisees twenty-one centuries ago.
Over the millennia, the times may change but the hearts of men and women, for better or worse, seldom do, sorry to say. May God bless this President in his crusade against corruption, both here and abroad.
-Drew Nickell, 12 November 2019
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