Saturday, September 22, 2018

Anchor Babies, Birthright Citizenship and the 14th Amendment

If you wonder what the truth is behind anchor babies, birth tourism, automatic birthright citizenship and the 14th amendment, I put together a little primer. It's long but worth the read.
Birth tourism is travel to another country for the purpose of giving birth to an "anchor baby" in that country. The main reason is to obtain citizenship for the child in a country with birthright citizenship (jus soli) and to enjoy access to free public schooling, healthcare, welfare and sponsorship for the parents in the future. Popular destinations include the United States and Canada.
No European country presently grants UNCONDITIONAL birthright citizenship; however, most countries in the Americas, the United States, Canada, Mexico, Argentina, and Brazil do so.
To discourage birth tourism, Australia, France, Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa, and the United Kingdom grant citizenship by birth ONLY if at least one parent is a citizen of the country or a legal permanent resident who has lived in the country for several years. Germany softened its citizenship requirement and doesn't require one parent be a citizen anymore. Thus, the reason they have such a large incoming migration.
A new study shows that one in 4 of children living in the United States, 20 million, in 2016, had at least one parent who was born OUTSIDE the United States. 25% of those children live in California. Another 25% live in New York, Texas and Florida. So HALF the children in the US born to parents who came here from other countries live in California, Texas, New York and Florida.
Women from Communist China pay "birth tourism" operators from $40,000 to $80,000 to come to the US to deliver their made-in-America babies. Birth tourism is a huge industry in New York and California to breed future Democrat voters through tourist visa fraud and chain migration. Pregnant women travel to the United States, usually on tourist visas, so that their children will be born US citizens. At least 500 companies offer "birth tourism" services in China. While there are no official statistics, the number of Communist Chinese citizens heading to the USA to give birth is over 100,000 each year.
So roughly 10 million children, living in California, New York, Texas and Florida, were born to at least one parent who was not born in America. 89 percent of these children are now citizens of the U.S. itself. One third of those children are covered under either Medicaid or the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP). Most of those families receive some other kind of welfare assistance through their children including housing, foodstamps, and cash.
Should all anchor babies, or babies born in America to illegal aliens, automatically become American citizens due to the U.S. Constitution? It looks like NO. We've been conned for decades by FAKE NEWS on the meaning of the 14th Amendment. President Trump has said that the line "subject to their jurisdiction" in the 14th Amendment means that babies born to ILLEGALS in the United States are NOT automatically citizens of the United States.
The 14th Amendment was written in 1868 to grant citizenship to former slaves who had just been freed after the Civil War, not to naturalize all foreign-born people who come to America just to give birth so, through chain migration, they could bring entire families here. Each year, over 200,000 babies are born and naturalized in America through "birth tourism" - an organized operation to subvert US law. That doesn't include the hundreds of thousands born to illegal aliens, in our emergency rooms, free of charge.
"Every person born within the limits of the United States, and subject to their jurisdiction, is by virtue of natural law and national law a citizen of the United States. This will not, of course, include persons born in the United States who are foreigners, aliens, who belong to the families of ambassadors or foreign ministers accredited to the Government of the United States, but will include every other class of persons. It settles the great question of citizenship and removes all doubt as to what persons are or are not citizens of the United States. This has long been a great desideratum in the jurisprudence and legislation of this country."
"The phrase "subject to the jurisdiction thereof" was intended to exclude American-born persons from automatic citizenship whose allegiance to the United States was NOT complete. With illegal aliens who are unlawfully in the United States, their native country has a claim of allegiance on the child. Thus, the completeness of their allegiance to the United States is impaired, which therefore precludes automatic citizenship."
Has the media has sold us a bill of goods on "anchor babies" for decades since LBJ killed JFK's merit-based immigration plan and replaced it with chain migration to ensure new Democrat voters? Yes. Time to change that.
IMHO, when it comes to the current situation, it's not OK to kick out kids who have lived here their entire lives - gotten a high school degree - haven't committed crimes and are doing the deal. Those 1.8 million deserve a chance. The rest, NO. Get in line like everybody else.
Then shut down chain migration, build the wall, kill the lottery, limit asylum, and shut down sanctuary cities. From now on we only deal in merit. Like we used to. Also, get the 14th amendment before the Supreme Court and outlaw automatic citizenship for the birthing industry. Stop illegal aliens, who sneak into America to give birth in our hospitals for FREE so their kids can become citizens, from abusing our country. NO MORE.

Three Babies Stabbed At Birthing Centers for Illegals

The three newborns who were nearly stabbed to death in Queens, New York this morning were not at a "daycare" as the FAKE NEWS New York Times reported. It was a "birthing center" for illegal aliens. Where foreign mothers come to give birth to anchor babies and get help processing citizenship paperwork.
Police say the stabbing location is a place where Communist Chinese women give birth to establish their child's residency. The women then LEAVE the country and attempt to return at a later date. There are hundreds of birthing centers like this all over the United States.
An unhinged worker at the birthing center, Yu Fen Wang, stabbed five people, with a butcher knife and a meat cleaver, including three newborns, at Mei Xin Care, a "private" birthing center in Queens, New York.
The babies are extremely young - one is 3 days old, another is a month old, and the last is 20 days old. The three day old baby and month old baby were both stabbed in the stomach. The 20-day-old baby was stabbed in the face - with injuries to her chin, ear and lip. All are in critical condition. The father of one of the infants was stabbed in the leg and her co-worker was stabbed eight times in the stomach.

Women from Communist China pay "birth tourism" operators from $40,000 to $80,000 to come to the US to deliver their made-in-America babies. Birth tourism is a huge industry in New York and California to breed future Democrat voters through tourist visa fraud and chain migration. Pregnant women travel to the United States, usually on tourist visas, so that their children will be born US citizens. At least 500 companies offer "birth tourism" services in China. While there are no official statistics, the number of Communist Chinese citizens heading to the USA to give birth is over 100,000 each year.

I know several "immigrants" who were born in the the U.S. by illegal parents as anchor babies, and shipped home to be raised, and then returned to the U.S. to enjoy the benefits of being U.S. "citizens." I call that fraud. 

Friday, September 21, 2018

How The Daycare Fraud Scheme Works





Minnesota, remember the daycare fraud investigation that revealed suitcases full of cash were leaving the Minneapolis airport for North Africa and the Middle East? Many wondered just how the daycare fraud is perpetrated. Here's what I know:
1) The so-called "working" parents will apply for daycare assistance for each child. That amounts to a benefit of roughly $1,000 per month, per child. That means a family with 8 children will receive a daycare benefit of $8,000 per month or $96,000 per year, paid for by Minnesota taxpayers.
2) Another "community" member will open a daycare facility. They will hire the MOTHER of the eight children as an "employee."
3) The mother will work at the daycare facility for minimum wage for a maximum of 25 hours per week caring for HER OWN CHILDREN so that she can prove she is "working" and qualifies for daycare assistance.
4) The daycare facility will bill the state $8,000 a month for caring for her 8 children - and pay the mother $800 a month in income for caring for HER OWN CHILDREN - and pocket the rest. Often, much of that money will be sent back to their country of origin. Some critics believe the parents receive additional kick-backs for their participation. Or, sometimes, there aren't ANY children AT ALL...the facility is empty...and the state is billed for non-existent children.
5) Because the mother works only 25 hours a week, she is still entitled to free healthcare through Medicaid or ObamaCare, free food stamps, cash assistance, daycare assistance and subsidized housing for up to 10 years. Meanwhile, Minnesota-born citizens wait in line.
6) The daycare facility will often build a kitchen and call it a "restaurant" and hire workers (mothers of more children who receive free daycare) to feed all the families.
7) The daycare facilities are not open to "everybody" and are often full.
8) If the family has subsidized housing, the low wage she is being paid at the "daycare" facility will ensure they are qualified to continue to receive subsidized housing or Section 8 FOREVER.
9) New refugees are trained in on the scheme when they arrive and are taught how to manipulate and maximize the system. This is an international scam - which has been going on in Australia and the UK for over a decade. Minnesota spends $13 billion on welfare benefits every year, and some $250 million of that is just on daycare assistance alone.
10) Ilhan Omar and Keith Ellison are both complicit in the scheme calling for lawmakers to not investigate and to avert their eyes. Left unchecked, welfare fraud will bankrupt Minnesota.

Communist China World Domination


Finally. Google admits the truth about Communist China's plans to control half the world's internet with their help. Eric Schmidt of Google predicts that within 10 years the internet will split into two versions: one version "censored and controlled" by the Communist Chinese and the other "free and open" and led by the United States. Under Sundar Pichai's leadership, Google has helped the Communists launch a censored version of its search engine in China.
"Globalization means the Communists get to play, too. There's a real danger that along with those products and services comes a different leadership regime from government, with censorship, and controls. Look at the way BRI works – the Chinese Belt and Road Initiative, which involves 60-ish countries – it's perfectly possible those countries will begin to take on the infrastructure that Communist China has with some loss of freedom."
The Belt and Road Initiative is a massive economic and military scheme by Communist China to replace America as the world's leader and install Communism all over the globe by connecting and facilitating all kinds of trade, including digital trade, between China and countries in Europe, Africa, the Middle East and Asia.

Communist China: In the future, if you want to buy cheap stuff from us, you'll have to agree to live under our Communist rule.

Thursday, September 20, 2018

Snoop Dog Needs His Mouth Washed Out With Soap



Rapper Snoop Dog, one of LeBron James' pals, had some thought-provoking things to say about President Trump, his supporters and Kanye West in his latest, ahem, interview:
***Language Warning***
“I don’t give a fuck. If you like that nigga, you motherfuckin’ racist, fuck you and fuck him. Now what? Draw the line, nigga. He drew the lines. He drew the motherfucking lines. Before him, there were no lines. Everybody was everybody, we respected everything, we didn’t trip, but nigga, when you drew the line, nigga, start pointing motherfuckers out…nigga, fuck y’all then, nigga. You and them. Kanye too, nigga. Don’t forget about him, too, fuck you, too."
Just riveting. What an inspiring role model for America's youth. Remember last year when Snoop promised to move to Canada after he "assassinated" a clown version of Trump in one of his lively little rap tunes? Unfortunately, he's still here.

Minnesota Black Immigrant Proud To Be A Trump Supporter - MAGA

Jalale is a Minnesotan, originally from Ethiopia, and a Trump supporter who loves her MAGA hat. She has been thrown out of a restaurant, assaulted, called a "coon" and dumped by her boyfriend for being a Trump supporter. But she isn’t backing down. My kind of girl. 
Jalale is a legal immigrant. She came to the United States in 1996 while in the fifth grade from her native Ethiopia. “I grew up in a communist country. I know what real fascism and communism is, and when I see little girls saying America is a fascist country, I say, you have no idea.”
Back in Ethiopia, she says, both her father and uncle had been jailed for practicing Christianity and teaching it in the wrong language. Her father, a pastor, came to the United States to start his own church. Earlier this summer, the new Prime Minister of Ethiopia, Abiy Ahmed, a man Jalale describes as a Trump-esque reformer, came to the U.S. and met with Vice President Pence. He also made a stop in Minnesota, and before speaking to a crowd of Ethiopian immigrants there while Jalale’s father delivered a prayer.
Jalale grew up in a large, conservative, Christian family, values she retained until going away to college, where she says her brain became warped by the suffocating atmosphere of liberalism surrounding her. “I flipped completely after college to being liberal,” she says. “I forgot who I was. I forgot what made me the hardworking person I had been all along. I came out of college disillusioned, not hopeful about the future, and hating people in general. It’s really hard to remember what made me change back, but the moment I saw things for what they were, which was less than a year ago, I could never go back."
I'm glad she's back. Welcome home. 



LeBron Takes Hollywood By Storm

LeBron James says Serena's loss to Naomi was a slap in the face because Serena IS FIGHTING FOR EQUALITY:
"What she was fighting for is bigger than just that match. She is fighting for equality — always having to win more, more, more, just to feel equal. Being an African-American woman playing in a predominantly white sport, she's dealing with so much more. I feel her struggle."
Hmm. Let's see. Naomi Osaka is half-Japanese and half-Haitian and says her heritage has NOTHING to do with her performance. So, why are LeBron and Serena making this all about race and oppression? Here they are at a GUCCI cocktail party. See how oppressed they are? LeBron has mastered the "victim" mentality and loves to race-bait for profit. Right along with Colin Kaepernick. 

As LeBron James, or King James as he prefers, prepares to debut with the Lakers, he's taking Hollywood by storm with a dozen film and TV projects. He's leaving his $10 million home and his "foundation" in Akron, Ohio and moving to California where he has two $20 million, 16,000 square foot homes, that he purchased in 2015. One in Los Angeles and one in Brentwood. But, he says, his $154 million Lakers deal has not changed his social life: "I don't do the celebrity thing. I go train and I go home. Sometimes I'll take my wife to dinner." LOL. Right. My question is: Why is LeBron sporting a Jihadi beard? Is he a practicing Muslim along with his friend Colin Kaepernick and his Muslim activist girlfriend, Nessa Diab? 

Saturday, September 8, 2018

Obama Attempts To Rewrite History - AGAIN

Before they REWRITE HISTORY AGAIN, please read this:
"What is a danger is that we stay stuck in a new normal where unemployment rates stay high. I thought the economy would have gotten better by now. One of the things I think you understand as president is you're held responsible for everything. But you don't always have control of everything," Obama, CBS 60 Minutes, 2010.
"Trump says he will raise growth to 3% and bring back manufacturing jobs? Well, how exactly is he going to do that? What exactly is he going to do? There’s no answer to it. What magic wand does he have? And usually the answer is, he doesn’t have an answer. Those jobs aren't coming back," - Obama, January 2016.
"For three quarters in a row, the growth rate of the Obama economy has hovered around a mere 1%," - New York Times, August 2016.
"If Trump thinks he can get more than 3% economic growth, he's dreaming." - LA Times, May 19, 2017
"US economic growth revised up to 4.2% for the second quarter 2018 under Trump administration." - BBC News, August 28, 2018


Minnesota, what happened to diversity?

Minnesota, have you ever wondered why the once "diverse" Cedar Riverside community is now almost 100% occupied by East African Somali Muslim migrants? Why isn't Cedar Riverside multi-cultural or diverse any longer? I thought the left was all about "multi-culturalism" and "diversity." I asked someone who knows the answer:
"As East African immigrants moved in - the students, American blacks, elderly white, and the Koreans all moved out. The East Africans are difficult to live around. Why? The cooking smells bother many Americans. East Africans are also quite demanding and push their ways on others. Also, Somali blacks and American blacks don't get along with each other. The Somali gangs war with the Black gangs and the White gangs and the Latino gangs and the Native American gangs.
The same dynamic is well-known in Minnesota's prisons. The East Africans do not like American blacks and believe American blacks don't deserve to be called "African-American." They believe East Africans are the "real" African-Americans and are here in Minnesota to replace the American black.
In the public housing buildings, the maximum rent the East Africans must pay is $535.00 per month. The state takes 33% of their income and once they reach $535 their rent never goes higher - which is a disincentive to earn more. They can stay for as long as they want. They are also allowed to visit their Somali homeland, which costs upwards of $3,000 per flight, for up to three months at a time, and the housing is held for them, rent-free, at a $75/month charge."
What a deal, huh? Now you know the rest of the story. Am I a racist for reporting this truth?


Friday, September 7, 2018

Attempted Assassination of Brazilian Trump by Communist Deep State

The man playing kissy face with Obama, and the leaders of Iran, Russia and Turkey, is the former President of Brazil, called Lula. Lula is the Commie force behind the near-fatal stabbing of the conservative candidate, Jair Bolsonaro, they call the Brazilian Trump, who is running to replace Lula's criminal regime.
Today, the Brazilian Donald Trump, Jair Bolsonaro, was STABBED IN THE GUT while campaigning to replace the massively corrupt left-wing cabal that has shaken Brazil for a decade. He arrived at the hospital almost dead. The stab wound affected his liver, intestines and lungs. The election is in October. Another sick attempt by the Communists to take an innocent life so they can remain in power.
The conservative candidate, Bolsonaro, was running against the former Communist President Lula's likely heir, Fernando Haddad, who was just charged with corruption yesterday - the third Socialist in a row to go down for their crimes. 
Lula is currently operating his murderous left-wing cartel from a Brazilian prison where he is spending 12 years for massive corruption. His first left-wing replacement was impeached. His second replacement was just charged yesterday. This is the murderous global Deep State swamp. Now you see why they want President Trump neutered or dead.

You can't make this stuff up folks. This is what they did to JFK, RFK, MLK and Malcolm, what they did to Nixon, what they tried to do to Reagan and what they're trying to do to Trump. This is no conspiracy. This is REAL. Please join me in praying for Jair's healing and President Trump's safety.

Thursday, September 6, 2018

Fake News CNN

Here are the top 10 programs across cable news for August 2018, per Nielsen live-plus-same-day data. The entries below include total viewers, performance over last year and the number of original broadcasts that aired in August. Notice who's missing? Fake News CNN.
1) Fox Hannity (3,079,000) / +15 percent / 16 telecasts
2) MSNBC Rachel Maddow Show (2,882,000) / +4 percent / 20 telecasts
3) Fox Tucker Carlson Tonight (2,552,000) / +3 percent / 19 telecasts
4) Fox The Ingraham Angle (2,461,000) / 18 telecasts
5) MSNBC The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell (2,229,000) / -5 percent / 19 telecasts
6) Fox The Five (2,176,000) / -7 percent / 20 telecasts
7) Fox Special Report with Bret Baier (2,049,000) / FLAT / 20 telecasts
8) Fox The Story with Martha MacCallum (1,867,000) / -2 percent / 20 telecasts
9) MSNBC All In with Chris Hayes (1,865,000) / FLAT / 20 telecasts
10) MSNBC The 11th Hour with Brian Williams (1,712,000) / -5 percent / 20 telecasts

MS-13 Loves Nike

Don't forget. MS-13, the most brutal gang in the world, wears blue and white Nike Cortez shoes. Now you know who Nike's target audience is. You know. The company that LeBron, Eminem and Kaepernick all love. 
The MS-13 gang from El Salvador, with 70,000 members mostly in California, New York, DC, Boston, New Jersey and Houston, is the world's most vicious gang. Their motto is "kill, rape, control," and they are known for gruesome ISIS-like tactics, including hacking and stabbing victims with machetes, even Latino children who refuse to join the gang.
Heavily tattooed and using it's own sign language, MS-13 is also known for wearing blue and white Nike Cortez shoes. American law enforcement often target MS-13 gang members by these identifying sneakers.


Wednesday, September 5, 2018

Nigerian Parents Starve Child To Death

Kehinde & Titilayno Omosebi starved their children for 45 days, an 11 year old boy and 15 year old boy, near Baraboo, Wisconsin. The 15 year old starved to death. Why? The father said it was a religious fast “to receive God’s blessing” to move to Atlanta. What religion would that be? They were originally from Nigeria. The family previously had lived in Missouri and Iowa.
The FATHER WALKED TO THE POLICE STATION TO TELL THEM HIS SON WAS DEAD. The police found a letter inside the home written by the 11 year old brother addressed to the "Lawyers of Sauk County," saying, "If I don't get food now, I'll probably die of hunger. The hunger is too much, please help me now so I may eat. I can't continue in such a life with no food." They also found the emaciated body of 15-year-old Ayanfe O. Omosebi who died of starvation after 40 days of fasting. The mother was also emaciated and starving but refused food.
What investigators couldn't find inside the home was any food, bedding, furniture or decorations and it was padlocked from the inside. The power was turned off. The father claimed to be a Minister but police say he made that up. Omosebi had worked at a local iron foundry, Grede Foundries, but had been unemployed since February. Most likely unemployable and unable to care for his family. This is what happens when we bring over families ill equipped to live in the developed world in the name of compassion.
Horrific!



American Sniper Widow Rips Nike For Kaepernick Ad

American Sniper widow Taya Kyle rips Nike over Kaepernick ad:
"Sacrificing what exactly? A career? I’ve done that both times I chose to stay home and be with my kids instead of continuing my business climb and it wasn’t sacrificing everything. It was sacrificing one career and some money and it was because of what I believe in and more importantly, who I believe in. At best, that is all Colin sacrificed. Some money and it’s debatable if he really lost his career over it. That whole 'sacrificing everything' is insulting to those who really have sacrificed everything."
"You want to talk about someone in the NFL sacrificing everything? Pat Tillman. NFL STARTING, not benched, player who left to join the Army and died for it. THAT is sacrificing everything for something you believe in. How about other warriors? Warriors who will not be on magazine covers, who will not get lucrative contracts and millions of followers from their actions and who have truly sacrificed everything. They did it because they believed in something. Take it from me, when I say they sacrificed everything, they also sacrificed the lives of their loved ones who will never be the same. THAT is sacrificing everything for something they believe in."
"Taking a stand, or rather a knee, against the flag which has covered the caskets of so many who actually did sacrifice everything for something they believe in, that we all believe in? Well, the irony of your ad. It almost leaves me speechless. Were you trying to be insulting? All I know is, I was actually in the market for some new kicks and at least for now, I’ve never been more grateful for Under Armour."



LeBron, Colin, Eminem. The Three Stooges.

After the Nike backlash, LeBron James says he stands with Colin Kaepernick and Nike "all day and everyday." Not only that, but LeBron loves Eminem's new album Kamikaze so much he tweeted this:

"Now if y’all think this “Kamikaze” album isn’t 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 you’re just hating and incompetent of lyrics/cadence/breakdown of his raps. Oh and he putting quite a few in a body bag too 💀! 😂 😂"

Here's the lyrics of Kamikaze. I can see why every father wants his son to idolize LeBron, Colin and Eminem. Such beautiful role models for America's youth. SICK TWISTED FREAKS. Almost as bad as goat rapers.

Yeah, I'm a fuckin' kamikaze crashin' into everything
You beat me, Islamic Nazi, that means there is no such thing
I've been goin' for your jugular since Craig G "Duck Alert"
Wedgie in my underwear, the whole bed sheet and the comforter
Stuck up in my rectal crack, kiss my disrespectful ass
I'll ride through your cul-de-sac
Window cracked, bumpin' your reference tracks

You collaborative effort rap, I have never said his raps
Overstayed my welcome, stepped in crap
And ruined your welcome mat
So spit that shit from the heart, you didn't write like you wrote it
While I teabag the microphone 'cause I go nuts on it
Like a fighter jet lined with explosives that'll strike any moment
Headed right at opponents and I'm the fuckin' pilot that flown it
I'm 'bout to—

Kamikaze, kamikaze
Kamikaze, kamikaze, kami-kamikaze
Take a look at what I've done



I heard your freestyle on Shade 45, that shit was embarrassing
There is no way we ever air that shit again, I guarantee
That way that shit was so ass it's somethin' we wouldn't dare re-air

The shit's embarrassing as me rear-ending Tara Reid bare
In my therapy chair, my dick is the hair length of Cher
Each nut is the chair width of an acorn, stairlift beware of me
Lyrically I'm terrible, better get your lyrics prepared
Richard Ramirez is here, serial killin' every beat there is

Smash into everyone, crash into everything
Back and I've just begun, "FACK" 2017
Fack, fack on everyone
Fack, fack on everyone
Fack, fack on everyone
I'm a Kamikaze, gonna
Smash into everyone, crash like an F-15
Damage already done, y'all shoulda let me be
Fack, fack on everyone
Fack, fack on everyone
Fack, fack on everyone
I'm a Kamikaze, gonna

Wait, wait, got the eeriest feelin'
Somethin' evil is lurkin', I'm no conspiracy theorist
But somethin' here is afoot—oh yeah, it's my dick
Get the measurin' stick (what?), twelve inches of wood

Wait, but I've been goin' for your jugular since Craig G "Duck Alert"
And I've come to pay respects
'Cause if you sleep you're fucked—other words
You get laid to rest a
nd I hope your butt is hurt
Put me on a track, I go cray on it like a color book
You got some views, but you're still below me
Mine are higher, so when you compare our views, you get overlooked
And I don't say the hook unless I wrote the hook

And now I'm just freestylin' in the vocal booth
And you know I've always spoke the truth
You lyin' through your teeth so much you broke a tooth
And it ain't somethin' I need a phone to do
When I say I can't wait 'til I get ahold of you

And I don't know what I'm s'posed to do
Line up the rappers, take my pic like a photo shoot

New York Times Gone Batshit Crazy

OMG. The Deep State RESISTANCE is now so desperate that they had The New York Times post an "anonymous editorial" from a so-called "senior official" deep within the Trump White House. A member of the Trump RESISTANCE who has infiltrated Trump's inner circle. Ya know. Like the fake Deep Throat in Watergate! You can't make this stuff up! Russia didn't work. Stormy didn't work. So now we're back around to mental illness. The circle of life.
The New York Times today is taking the rare step of publishing an anonymous Op-Ed essay. We have done so at the request of the author, a senior official in the Trump administration whose identity is known to us and whose job would be jeopardized by its disclosure. We believe publishing this essay anonymously is the only way to deliver an important perspective to our readers. We invite you to submit a question about the essay or our vetting process here.
I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration. I work for the president but like-minded colleagues and I have vowed to thwart parts of his agenda and his worst inclinations.
President Trump is facing a test to his presidency unlike any faced by a modern American leader.
It’s not just that the special counsel looms large. Or that the country is bitterly divided over Mr. Trump’s leadership. Or even that his party might well lose the House to an opposition hellbent on his downfall.
The dilemma — which he does not fully grasp — is that many of the senior officials in his own administration are working diligently from within to frustrate parts of his agenda and his worst inclinations. I would know. I am one of them.
To be clear, ours is not the popular “resistance” of the left. We want the administration to succeed and think that many of its policies have already made America safer and more prosperous.
But we believe our first duty is to this country, and the president continues to act in a manner that is detrimental to the health of our republic. That is why many Trump appointees have vowed to do what we can to preserve our democratic institutions while thwarting Mr. Trump’s more misguided impulses until he is out of office.
The root of the problem is the president’s amorality. Anyone who works with him knows he is not moored to any discernible first principles that guide his decision making. Although he was elected as a Republican, the president shows little affinity for ideals long espoused by conservatives: free minds, free markets and free people. At best, he has invoked these ideals in scripted settings. At worst, he has attacked them outright.
In addition to his mass-marketing of the notion that the press is the “enemy of the people,” President Trump’s impulses are generally anti-trade and anti-democratic. Don’t get me wrong. There are bright spots that the near-ceaseless negative coverage of the administration fails to capture: effective deregulation, historic tax reform, a more robust military and more.
But these successes have come despite — not because of — the president’s leadership style, which is impetuous, adversarial, petty and ineffective.
From the White House to executive branch departments and agencies, senior officials will privately admit their daily disbelief at the commander in chief’s comments and actions. Most are working to insulate their operations from his whims.
Meetings with him veer off topic and off the rails, he engages in repetitive rants, and his impulsiveness results in half-baked, ill-informed and occasionally reckless decisions that have to be walked back.
“There is literally no telling whether he might change his mind from one minute to the next,” a top official complained to me recently, exasperated by an Oval Office meeting at which the president flip-flopped on a major policy decision he’d made only a week earlier.
The erratic behavior would be more concerning if it weren’t for unsung heroes in and around the White House. Some of his aides have been cast as villains by the media. But in private, they have gone to great lengths to keep bad decisions contained to the West Wing, though they are clearly not always successful.
It may be cold comfort in this chaotic era, but Americans should know that there are adults in the room. We fully recognize what is happening. And we are trying to do what’s right even when Donald Trump won’t.
The result is a two-track presidency.
Take foreign policy: In public and in private, President Trump shows a preference for autocrats and dictators, such as President Vladimir Putin of Russia and North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-un, and displays little genuine appreciation for the ties that bind us to allied, like-minded nations.
Astute observers have noted, though, that the rest of the administration is operating on another track, one where countries like Russia are called out for meddling and punished accordingly, and where allies around the world are engaged as peers rather than ridiculed as rivals.
On Russia, for instance, the president was reluctant to expel so many of Mr. Putin’s spies as punishment for the poisoning of a former Russian spy in Britain. He complained for weeks about senior staff members letting him get boxed into further confrontation with Russia, and he expressed frustration that the United States continued to impose sanctions on the country for its malign behavior. But his national security team knew better — such actions had to be taken, to hold Moscow accountable.
This isn’t the work of the so-called deep state. It’s the work of the steady state.
Given the instability many witnessed, there were early whispers within the cabinet of invoking the 25th Amendment, which would start a complex process for removing the president. But no one wanted to precipitate a constitutional crisis. So we will do what we can to steer the administration in the right direction until — one way or another — it’s over.
The bigger concern is not what Mr. Trump has done to the presidency but rather what we as a nation have allowed him to do to us. We have sunk low with him and allowed our discourse to be stripped of civility.
Senator John McCain put it best in his farewell letter. All Americans should heed his words and break free of the tribalism trap, with the high aim of uniting through our shared values and love of this great nation.
We may no longer have Senator McCain. But we will always have his example — a lodestar for restoring honor to public life and our national dialogue. Mr. Trump may fear such honorable men, but we should revere them.
There is a quiet resistance within the administration of people choosing to put country first. But the real difference will be made by everyday citizens rising above politics, reaching across the aisle and resolving to shed the labels in favor of a single one: Americans.
The writer is a senior official in the Trump administration.