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“Go after the State Department folks too. Everybody talks about the civil service domestically, but no one talks about the Foreign Service. Let’s go after the Foreign Service.”
–Paul Teller
Trump Liaison to Congressional Conservatives
William F. Buckley Jr. Council – November 2016
Full talk via vox.com, at 27 min mark: https://soundcloud.com/cnp-786867471/william-f-buckley-jr-council-november-2016
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“Nobody in the Trump Administration wants to come in and feel like their hands are tied ’cause they have like a thousand bureaucrats beneath them all telling them what to do and they’ve been there before and blah, blah, blah.” Well that sure worked out well for them now didn’t it?
This talk is dated November 2016. Predates the leaked dissent memo.