23 attorneys general meet daily to subvert Trump
Twenty-three state attorneys general hold daily meetings to plot their resistance against President Donald Trump’s agenda, Politico reported Thursday.
The Democrat AGs began plotting against Trump a year before he retook the White House and are now trying to execute their plan. Every day at 4 PM ET, the attorneys general hold a video call where they discuss efforts to subvert Trump’s agenda.
“They share updates on the seven cases they have moving through federal courts and argue about whether to treat Elon Musk as a lawful arm of the government or an uncredentialed interloper to it,” Politico reported. “They plot where to respond next, leveraging timezone differences to expand the workday.”
According to the report, the AGs “see themselves as the last backstop between the people and the president” and as responsible for sabotaging the agenda chosen by the American people. Nevertheless, they claim to be protecting rather than violating the Constitution.
“Right now in the United States, the Democratic AGs are the only group of people who are united and working to prevent some of these unconstitutional actions from continuing,” Hawaii Attorney General Anne Lopez boasted.
The report also noted that the AGs are making it their “full-time job” to resist Trump and hope to secure more taxpayer funds to continue the fight.
“There’s no question our resources are being taxed, I’ve asked our Legislature for more,” said Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser.
Resistance from the federal government
In addition to the AGs, Trump faces resistance from within his own administration.
A January survey found that a significant number of federal employees plan to resist the Trump administration and even refuse lawful orders.
The poll surveyed three groups of people: the Elite 1%, defined as those with postgraduate degrees who live in densely populated areas and earn more than $150,000 a year; Main Street Americans, who comprise 70%-75% of the population; and Federal Government Managers, defined as federal employees who earn at least $75,000 a year and live in the National Capital Region encompassing Washington, DC.
While most respondents in the first two categories — including many Democrats — told pollsters they plan to support the Trump administration, Federal Government Managers were more divided. Forty-four percent of federal employees said they will support Trump while 42% said they plan to resist his efforts to govern. The latter included 73% of Democrat employees, 40% of whom said they will “strongly resist” the new administration.
More concerningly, 64% of Democrat government employees said they would ignore a lawful order from President Trump if they think it’s bad policy, while only 17% said they would obey it.
“This survey confirms that bureaucrats in the administrative state are planning to oppose Trump from within, whether that means by refusing lawful orders or by engaging in political activism against Trump outside of work hours,” wrote Tyler O’Neill for The Daily Signal. “This deep state phenomenon undermined the first Trump administration, and the president has pledged to fight it aggressively in the new one.”
