Personnel Is Policy

As we have noted many times before, in Washington, D.C., personnel is policy. The people appointed to key positions can either advance the president’s goals or sabotage them. Here’s why Trump’s appointments are so critical.

Pete Hegseth – The Defense Department, under secretaries Trump appointed, resisted efforts to send troops to protect the border. They’ll send our sons and daughters all over the world to secure the borders of countries the vast majority of Americans couldn’t name. But they’re not interested in protecting the borders of places named “Arizona,” “New Mexico,” and “Texas.” And as I noted yesterday, Hegseth wrote a book about the urgent need to reform our woke military.

John Ratcliffe – Before Ratcliffe was elected to Congress, he was a federal prosecutor. He knows illegal activity when he sees it, and he will clean up the CIA, which spied on Trump’s campaign. Trump appointed Ratcliffe to a top intelligence position in his first administration, and he did his best to push back against the Deep State’s lies that Hunter Biden’s laptop was “Russian disinformation.”

Tulsi Gabbard – Gabbard served our country in uniform. She knows the costs and sacrifices of war. She was also a victim of the Deep State’s vindictiveness. She was put on a TSA watchlist after criticizing the Biden/Harris administration. As director of National Intelligence, she will get our intelligence community to refocus its attention on America’s foreign enemies, not American citizens with conservative opinions.

Matt Gaetz – His announcement as attorney general took Washington by surprise, and he is already facing resistance. We’ll see how it plays out. But in various committee hearings, he has gone after the Deep State and corruption at the Justice Department more aggressively than most Republicans. (Here, here, and here.) Trump knows that because he saw it.

No matter how congenial everything appeared to be at yesterday’s White House meeting, I have no doubt that the same cabal that cooked up the Russia collusion hoax is doing everything it can right now to do it again.

Don’t forget that Joe Biden was in that infamous January 2017 Oval Office meeting when Barack Obama, Susan Rice, James Comey, and others plotted how to pursue the Russia collusion investigation against the incoming Trump administration. They all knew it was a total sham, but they were determined to undermine Trump any way they could.

And some forces on the right are resisting Trump, too. A right-leaning publication is warning that Gabbard cannot be trusted with top secret information. Why? It’s the same Deep State narrative – she’s a threat because she doesn’t share their globalist worldview.

Donald Trump deserves to have people in key positions who he can trust to enact his agenda. And so do the voters who elected him.