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\"\"<\/a>All the President\u2019s Men<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h5>\n

Adam Lehrer<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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The man responsible for staffing Trump\u2019s administration is a right-wing DJ with a murky past who has allowed saboteurs to contravene the president\u2019s agenda from within\u2014setting the precedent that there is no cost for defying the commander-in-chief<\/strong>.<\/span><\/h4>\n<\/div>\n

Donald Trump listens during an Ambassador Meeting in the Cabinet Room of the White House on March 25, 2025 in Washington, DC. At right is Sergio Gor, director of White House personnel. \/ Win McNamee\/Getty Images<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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It seems fair to sum up the first 100 days of the second Donald Trump administration as a succession of often petty-seeming, self-undermining squabbles and psychodramas that have served to obscure whatever clear policy directions the president himself has set out. Former Pentagon officials have partnered with the media and Democratic Party officials to undermine Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. Head of the Department of Government Efficiency Elon Musk took to the website he owns to call senior economic adviser Peter Navarro a \u201cmoron,\u201d \u201cdumber than\u00a0a\u00a0sack\u00a0of\u00a0bricks.\u201d Then Musk feuded with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent over DOGE\u2019s accomplishments and the hedge-fund manager\u2019s private-sector track record.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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It can\u2019t be easy managing the contradictions resulting from the coalition politics that joined former Democrats like Musk, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and Tulsi Gabbard to traditional Republicans, libertarians and MAGA under one banner. As one media report put it: \u201cA bigger tent means more room for fighting underneath it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Yet the problem appears to go deeper than a host of big egos jockeying for position in front of the television cameras. There is a striking disconnect between the president\u2019s personnel and his policies. To some extent, that\u2019s because, according to sources close to the administration, the Office of Presidential Personnel (PPO) has filled only one-fifth of the jobs allocated to political appointees. And that leaves career bureaucrats running the government. Since most of them are Democrats, the result, says one first term Trump official, is obvious. \u201cIf this goes on for too long, at a minimum they will undermine Trump\u2019s message,\u201d they said. \u201cAt worst, they\u2019ll contravene his policies.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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It\u2019s possible that the Trump administration doesn\u2019t have a vetting problem, but an insubordination one. Either way, it\u2019s one that Gor has allowed to fester.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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While this explanation is certainly true, it omits the fact that some of the most visible fractures within the administration are not between the president and career bureaucrats, but among the political appointees themselves. Anti-Trump schemers don\u2019t appear to be sneaking through the cracks the way Eric Ciaramella, the CIA officer and onetime Biden deputy who helped engineer the 2019 impeachment of Trump snuck into the National Security Council during the president\u2019s first term. Instead, openly anti-Trump policymakers are being ushered into the administration by Trump\u2019s own cabinet officials, including Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, who has hired officials allied with billionaire libertarian donor Charles Koch, who opposed Trump in 2016, 2020, and 2024. As recently as January, Trump made a point of warning his people not to hire Koch lackeys. Yet that didn\u2019t stop Gabbard and others from hiring them in key roles across government, including at the Pentagon and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI).<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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A large part of the responsibility to staff the Trump administration with people who believe in the president\u2019s policies falls on the Director of the PPO, Sergio Gor. Now responsible for filling over 4,000 Executive Branch jobs, the 38-year old Gor grew up on the island of Malta, and speaks fluent Maltese. He entered Trump World through his business ties with the president\u2019s eldest son, Donald Trump, Jr. In 2021, the two founded Winning Team Publishing, which has published several books attributed to the president\u2014including\u00a0Our Journey Together<\/em>,\u00a0Save America<\/em>, and\u00a0Letters to Trump<\/em>, which has earned more than $6 million in sales. The firm has also published books by others in the Trump circle, including Navarro and Charlie Kirk.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Kirk told the press that Gor \u201cgets along with everyone in Trump\u2019s orbit.\u201d Nicknamed the \u201cMayor of Mar-a-Lago,\u201d the president\u2019s private club and personal residence, Gor has DJ\u2019ed MAGA theme parties there. During the campaign he was a frequent fixture on the club\u2019s porch, where he solicited campaign donations from the club\u2019s members.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cGor is [just] in over his head,\u201d one tech executive close to MAGA and the administration told Tablet. \u201cI don\u2019t think he\u2019s trying to place the wrong people in the administration out of malevolence. It\u2019s that the administration is a $7 trillion institution, and he has no experience staffing any institution.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Gor\u2019s biography shows similar signs of having been thrown together in a hurry. While he advertises himself as a devout Maltese Catholic, some of his acquaintances reportedly have claimed that he was born in the Soviet Union\u2014not exactly a native hotbed of Roman Catholicism\u2014before emigrating to Malta as a boy. The family then moved in 1999 to Los Angeles, where Gor attended high school. He reportedly shortened his name to Gor from Gorokhovsky, which he went by while he was enrolled at George Washington University. In 2008, he\u00a0reportedly<\/a>\u00a0was an activist in \u201cCatholics for McCain,\u201d which marked his first foray into Republican party politics.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Gor then worked for the Republican National Committee and fringe GOP lawmakers Randy Forbes, Michele Bachmann and Steve King. After a stint at\u00a0Fox News, Gor got a job as communications director with Senator Rand Paul and eventually found his way into Trump\u2019s orbit.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Whether or not Gor\u2019s experience on Capitol Hill and on the Mar-a-Lago back porch qualify him to staff the White House is certainly debatable. What is clear is that Gor is loyal to Trump, as suggested by his role at Winning Team Publishing\u00a0and the fact that he did not abandon the president in his post-January 6 exile. More significant than Gor\u2019s loyalty to Trump may be his partnership and close personal relationship with Donald Trump, Jr., who applauded his father\u2019s decision in hiring Gor on social media last November.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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In describing Gor\u2019s role, the president\u2019s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, told\u00a0The Washington Post<\/em>\u00a0last December that, unlike in 2017, now \u201c\u2018there are basically 20 people competing for every job\u2019\u2014and it will be up to Gor to determine who\u2019s worthy and loyal.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Yet in contrast to his work on the campaign and transition, during which Gor allies told the media that he was \u201cruthlessly efficient,\u201d he seems neither ruthless nor efficient at the PPO. Another source inside Trump circles told Tablet that Gor needs to recognize his own problem. \u201cThe buck stops with Sergio,\u201d said the source. \u201cIf he needs help, then he should ask.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Instead, he seems to be staffing the White House as if he were monitoring the velvet rope at a nightclub\u2014one where he believes his job, sources tell Tablet, is to keep out \u201cneocons.\u201d Perhaps this is Gor\u2019s penance for having worked for John McCain, the last actual neocon with any power. These days, the term \u201cneocon\u201d has become a synonym in D.C. circles for \u201cJew\u201d or \u201cpro-Israel,\u201d terms that are often used interchangeably by Koch loyalists who are eager to direct attention away from their own decade-long opposition to Trump and his policies on trade, the Middle East and securing America\u2019s borders, while re-shaping Trump\u2019s MAGA movement in their own image.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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No one believes that Gor harbors any ill will towards the president, and everyone interviewed argues that he\u2019s a true Trump loyalist. But all underscored that agreeability can be easily interpreted as weakness when hungry wolves are at the door. And the Koch network\u2019s wolves aren\u2019t just at the door. They\u2019ve made it past the velvet ropes to the dinner table.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Amidst an internal leak investigation at the Department of Defense earlier this month, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth suspended then dismissed three senior Pentagon officials for making unauthorized disclosures to the press. One of the banished policymakers was Hegseth\u2019s senior adviser and longtime colleague Dan Caldwell. \u201cIt\u2019s not my job to protect them,\u201d Hegseth said in the wake of the firing. \u201cIt\u2019s my job to protect national security, and the president of the United States.\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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If there is no cost for defying the president, others will see it as a green light to advance their own causes under Trump\u2019s banner, undermining the President\u2019s agenda and leaving Trump to take the blame.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Concerns over Caldwell\u2019s fealty to the president\u2019s agenda surfaced at the start of Trump\u2019s term. In January, Trump warned on Truth Social against hiring Koch-affiliated figures for administration roles, but days later two foreign policy analysts from the Koch network were named to DOD policy jobs. Caldwell, himself an alumnus of the Koch-funded think tank Defense Priorities, was believed to be responsible for inserting the other two into the Pentagon even as his friend Hegseth was tied down in the middle of a tough confirmation process.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cEvery day we hear about someone extremely disloyal who\u2019s been vocally critical of the president securing a job,\u201d reporter and MAGA influencer Laura Loomer told Tablet. Her Twitter feed keeps a running account of what she calls a \u201cvetting problem\u201d that has let various anti-Trump activists into positions across the bureaucracy\u2014DOJ, NSC, even TSA.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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It doesn\u2019t have to be like this, says Loomer. \u201cThere are so many hyper qualified people that want to work in this administration looking to get hired,\u201d she said. \u201cHigh level people looking for senior positions, Trump loyalists. But they\u2019re being turned away.\u201d It wasn\u2019t until last month that the administration moved out General Timothy Haugh, the Biden-appointed director of the National Security Agency, the institution that facilitated spying on Trump during his 2016 campaign and the first year of his presidency.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Sources told Tablet there\u2019s no good reason why the administration shouldn\u2019t be much further along in the staffing process. \u201cThe PPO is backed up with background checks,\u201d said one first term Trump official. \u201cBut some of these people have been slated in for spots since November and they\u2019re still not in. Why weren\u2019t these background checks done before? Then there are people who served in the last administration and they already have security clearances, so there\u2019s no reason why they shouldn\u2019t be in. If there was a problem with them during the first term, that\u2019s easy to check.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Even the career bureaucrats are uneasy about the current situation. \u201cThe functionaries are saying that they want political direction,\u201d says the former Trump official. \u201cEven they don\u2019t want a replay of the chaos from the first term, but they need political appointees directing staff to implement the president\u2019s policies. If this keeps up, it will fuel the idea that the president is incompetent.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Not long ago, Charles Koch and his late brother David were loathed by Democrats, with party bosses like President Joe Biden and left-wing journalists like Jane Mayer identifying the libertarian billionaires as the source of all political evil.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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But the Kochs bought a truce with the left when in 2019 they partnered with progressive mega-donor George Soros to start the Quincy Institute, a think-tank perhaps best known for a pro-Iran stance advanced most boldly by prominent Iran lobbyist Trita Parsi, Quincy\u2019s executive vice president. The stance wasn\u2019t simply ideological: A detailed 2011 press report showed that Koch Industries used foreign subsidiaries to evade U.S. trade sanctions barring American companies from selling materials to the Islamic Republic. According to\u00a0Bloomberg News<\/a>, Koch \u201cproducts helped build a methanol plant for Zagros Petrochemical Co., a unit of Iran\u2019s state-owned National Iranian Petrochemical Co.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Indeed, the Koch business empire has long been built on the principle that there is money to be made by doing business with anti-American totalitarian regimes. According to Mayer\u2019s 2016 book\u00a0Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right<\/em>, the Kochs\u2019 fortune started when their father Fred received $500,000 from Stalin for helping to build 15 oil refineries in the Soviet Union in the 1930s. Then Fred Koch\u2019s company Winkler-Koch\u00a0completed<\/a>\u00a0a Nazi oil refinery that helped keep the Luftwaffe in the air, until the facility was destroyed by Allied bombs in 1944.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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These days, Koch-funded policy analysts are aligned with John Mearsheimer and others from the \u201crealist\u201d school of foreign policy\u2014people who hold that Israel is the destabilizing force in the Middle East, and thus a nuclear bomb in the hands of Iran\u2019s terror regime will stabilize the region. Trump, on the other hand, has been clear that Iran, preferably through negotiations, cannot be allowed to have the bomb.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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And Iran is far from the only reason that the Kochs have spent millions opposing Trump for nearly a decade. They\u2019re also pro-China, having invested billions in the People\u2019s Republic over the last several years. In 2018, as the Kochs\u2019 U.S. companies announced hundreds of layoffs, Koch subsidiary INVISTA unveiled plans to build a $1 billion manufacturing plant in China\u2014a huge investment facilitated by Trump\u2019s tax cuts, which saved the Kochs as much $1.4 billion. They used the rest of their windfall on advertising buys opposing Trump\u2019s tariffs on Chinese imports.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Despite their successes in infiltrating the Trump administration, the Kochs seem as determined as ever to thwart the president\u2019s policies vis-\u00e0-vis Beijing\u2019s predatory trade practices. At present, two separate groups\u00a0reportedly<\/a>\u00a0funded by Koch\u2014the Pacific Legal Foundation, and the New Civil Liberties Alliance\u2014have sued Trump over his China tariffs. Other Koch-aligned groups have joined the anti-China tariff offensive, like the American Institute for Economic Research (AIER).<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Trump\u2019s tariff regime, AIER\u00a0argued<\/a>\u00a0in April, are a \u201cregressive and harmful\u201d policy that \u201cdo not protect American industries.\u201d Another AIER article hit on the same theme, contending that \u201ctariffs do not protect American industries\u2014they weaken them. They inflate prices, stifle competition, and erode international trade relationships.\u201d In another piece titled \u201cEven Tariff Supporters Say Trump\u2019s Trade War Is a Disaster for Americans,\u201d AIER argued that Trump supporters are \u201cunable to grasp\u201d that the \u201ccosts of tariffs are ultimately borne by American consumers.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Maybe AIER has it right on tariffs. (Even if they\u2019re not, it\u2019s a free country). But Trump won the popular vote by promising to tariff China and other nations using trade imbalances to impoverish American workers, so it\u2019s downright bizarre that the former head of AIER William Ruger was tapped for a top spot at ODNI\u2014even though he, too, has left a public record of attacking Trump on tariffs.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cTariffs are taxes on consumers, workers, and businesses,\u201d Ruger\u00a0tweeted<\/a>\u00a0in June 2018. \u201cGiven what we know about the economics of trade, America First ought to include a robust free trade approach not protectionism,\u201d he wrote in another post that month. \u201cHow is the US going to isolate its largest trading power without harming Americans? What will you tell US farmers about why they can\u2019t sell agricultural products to China? Ditto for other exporters? Or by \u2018isolate\u2019 did you mean \u2018not isolate but try to seem tough on China\u2019?\u201d he asked in a now-deleted post from December 2019.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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In 2018, as then-vice president of research and policy at the Charles Koch Institute, Ruger wrote in\u00a0The New York Times<\/em>: \u201cAmerica\u2019s approach to the world just isn\u2019t working to make us safer and more prosperous. And President Trump isn\u2019t helping. We need a more effective and realistic foreign policy.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Ruger is now the Trump administration\u2019s deputy director of national intelligence for mission integration, responsible for the presidential daily briefing. He replaced another Koch-sponsored foreign policy analyst, Daniel Davis, a senior fellow at Defense Priorities, who was\u00a0removed<\/a>\u00a0from his post, apparently by the president himself, after Trump allies raised alarms.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Sources throughout MAGA reached by Tablet expressed dismay at Ruger\u2019s appointment. \u201cHow is this guy a filter for identifying issues and framing questions for the president,\u201d said one former intelligence official who\u2019s served in numerous administrations. \u201cIt\u2019s insane they brought in Ruger. There seems to be a total disregard for the president\u2019s stated intent to keep out Koch people\u2014people with a shallow understanding of the issues who aren\u2019t objective or right.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Tablet reached out to ODNI for comment on the back-to-back appointments Koch-network figures, but did not receive a response.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Given the glacial pace at which White House jobs are being filled, it\u2019s easy to see how a relative neophyte like Gor would come to rely on a longstanding network like the one funded by the Koch brothers to fill jobs in a hurry with people who have at least worked in D.C. think tanks and are familiar enough with normative policy discourse in their areas of expertise. The problem with the Koch network, though, is that it\u2019s not a source of experts; it\u2019s something more like what they accuse \u201cneocons\u201d of being, namely a cult of true believers whose preferred policy agenda\u2014which stresses libertarian free trade and open borders ideas, while seeking to avoid conflict with China and Iran\u2014would appear to have little to do with the American interest as defined by Donald Trump. Once in office, Koch loyalists seem to stay loyal to their prior agenda.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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It\u2019s possible therefore that the Trump administration doesn\u2019t have a vetting problem, but an insubordination one. Either way, it\u2019s one that Gor has allowed to fester.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Aside from the Pentagon, the Koch network\u2019s problem with loyalty to Trump\u2019s agenda is particularly visible in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. Gabbard, the former Democratic congresswoman from Hawaii who jumped parties two years after her unsuccessful 2020 run for president, once sat on the board of a Koch-funded think tank at the Catholic University of America. But more significant is her past record of opposition to Trump\u2019s foreign policy, especially on Iran. For instance, in July 2019 she criticized Trump for withdrawing from the Iran nuclear deal. Obama\u2019s agreement with the mullahs, she said, \u201cprevented war. And that\u2019s the danger of what the Trump administration is doing right now, pushing us closer and closer to war with Iran by ripping up that deal.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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In fact, the substance of her 2020 run for the Democratic Party\u2019s nomination was all about attacking Trump on Iran\u2014and defending Obama\u2019s key foreign policy initiative\u2014as she showed in an extensive series of tweets in the spring and summer of 2019:<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cYour Iran strategy has been ill-advised and short-sighted. Change course now. Return to the Iran nuclear agreement before it\u2019s too late. Put aside your pride and political calculations for the good of our country. Do the right thing.\u201d\u00a0June 20, 2019<\/a><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cNetanyahu and Saudi Arabia want to drag the United States into war with Iran, and Trump is submitting to their wishes. The cost in money and lives will be catastrophic.\u201d\u00a0April 09, 2019<\/a><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cTrump\u2019s shortsighted foreign policy is bringing us to the brink of war with Iran and allowing Iran to accelerate nuclear program\u2014just to please Saudis and Netanyahu. This is not America first.\u201d\u00a0June 13, 2019<\/a><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cIran war is HIGHLY likely unless Trump swallows his pride & returns to the Iran nuclear agreement he tore up. But I fear he won\u2019t put the interests of our country & those who\u2019ll be killed in such a war ahead of his own pride & personal political interests.\u201d\u00a0June 14, 2019<\/a><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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After Trump had IRGC commander Qassem Soleimani liquidated in January 2020, Gabbard\u00a0said<\/a>, \u201cThis was very clearly an act of war by this president without any kind of authorization or declaration of war from Congress, clearly violating the Constitution.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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During her confirmation process, GOP lawmakers expressed confidence that Gabbard was now fully behind the president\u2019s policies. But Capitol Hill sources tell Tablet that Gabbard\u2019s picks are again raising serious concerns.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cIt\u2019s shocking,\u201d one Hill source told Tablet. \u201cThe president couldn\u2019t have been any clearer in his message regarding Koch hires. The Kochs have opposed him every step of the way. This should be a non-starter.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Another source inside the Trump camp tells Tablet that Gabbard and others \u201care openly defying the president.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Tablet emailed the White House spokesperson for comment on how public opponents of the president\u2019s policies from the Koch network continue to be appointed to sensitive positions. They did not respond.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Trump famously demands loyalty and at the same time has a long record of forgiving those who\u2019ve crossed him. For instance, he forgave JD Vance for calling him an idiot and speculating that he might be America\u2019s Hitler; he then made him his running mate. What worries Trump aides and supporters is that if there is no cost for defying the president, others will see it as a green light to advance their own causes under Trump\u2019s banner, undermining the president\u2019s agenda and leaving Trump to take the blame.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Trump\u2019s first term ended with him impeached twice, banished from social media and cut off from his followers, then subjected to a lawfare campaign designed to imprison him for life. Thousands of his supporters were rounded up in an FBI dragnet that tore apart families and communities. Several January 6 defendants took their own lives rather than face the prospect of prison time, poverty, shame, and further alienation from family and friends. Trump earned more than 70 million votes because he won the trust of an electorate that had been plunged into despair by an invasion at our borders, rigged elections, vaccine mandates, surging crime rates, and a political class that treated his supporters like domestic terrorists in waiting. In large part, he won that trust by being very clear about what he would do once in office.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The president ultimately owes his loyalty to the people who elected him\u2014not to Gabbard or anyone else in his so-called big-tent coalition. If the White House doesn\u2019t turn it around soon, sources say, Trump\u2019s second term could end even worse than the first.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Adam Lehrer<\/strong> is Tablet\u2019s deputy online editor.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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