The Trump administration circulated an intelligence-style memo detailing a conspiracy theory that former Obama staffers are using their pedestals in the private sector to undermine President Donald Trump’s foreign policy, according to a Thursday New Yorker report.
The memo, called “The Echo Chamber,” identified former national security staffers Ben Rhodes and Colin Kahl as heading the operation. Both men have told the New Yorker that the allegations are unequivocally false.
The memo also includes names of those considered supporting players in the conspiracy, including staffers-turned-podcasters Jon Favreau and Tommy Vietor.
Favreau, a host of Pod Save America, responded to the allegations with humor.
They could’ve saved themselves some time by just downloading the pod?
— Jon Favreau (@jonfavs) August 24, 2018
Worryingly, the memo reportedly echoes documents written by an Israeli intelligence firm called Black Cube that worked to gather damaging information about Obama aides who were spearheading the Iran nuclear deal. The phrase “echo chamber” and some of those staffers were found in the documents.
The Black Cube documents also include the names of journalists thought to be working alongside the Obama administration’s efforts, including the New York Times’ Max Fisher and NBC News’s Andrea Mitchell.
Crap-flinging monkeys have taken over the Oval Trailer…
Whoever criticizes the God-Emperor is corrupt, traitorous, and their breath stinks. Got it.
TTW you see clearly that Democrats are going to come into power in 2020, undo 60-80% of the damage its possible to undo and then get swept out in 2022 by a wave of disaffection from the left over their failure to get it all done in 2 years plus deliver each and every shiny bauble demanded in a sufficiently ideologically pure form plus put enough people in to jail.
Don’t get me wrong, some motherfuckers are going to have to go to jail this time or we’re lost forever. But it’s going to take longer than a lot of people are going to want it to take, and, unlike right-leaners, left-leaners have the insane idea–instrumental to the victories of George W. Bush and Donald Trump and the 2010 shellacking–that not voting or casting protest votes in general elections is an effective form of protest.
Hmmm…pointing out that these claims are groundless, ridiculous and false is JUST WHAT the deep state conspiracists would say! I think Q and SuperTrump need to let us know the real scoop.
Republicans never take responsibility for their actions, while on the left they can’t understand the timeline and how long it takes to clean up the mess.