Trump Advisers: He Was 'Triggered' by Talk of White Supremacy

[Nevilledog]

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-advisers-he-was-triggered-by-talk-of-white-supremacy

Two former top Homeland Security officials in the Trump administration have told The Daily Beast that there was an unwritten policy to not utter phrases like “domestic terrorism” and “white supremacy” around the president, for fear that he would take such conversations as implicit criticism of him.

The directives, said Elizabeth Neumann, previously assistant secretary at the Department of Homeland Security for counterterrorism and threat prevention, were never formalized. But both she and Miles Taylor, the former chief of staff at DHS, say that they were explicitly told by White House brass not to use such phrases or terms around Trump.

“Following the El Paso mass-shooting last year, the White House was looking to find a way to show that they were handling the situation,” Neumann, who worked on countering extremism and domestic terror, recalled. “I was advised by senior officials in the White House at the time that I should couch this in terms of countering violence, rather than countering domestic terrorism or white supremacy, when discussing it at the White House or in front of the president… The subtext was clear, that by using those words, we would be distracting the president from the core issue.”

Neumann’s recollections are just the latest in a string of critical revelations she’s offered after becoming the latest former senior Trump official to publicly endorse Joe Biden and trash the sitting president. She served in the Trump administration for almost all of the president’s first term in office, and says she voted for him in 2016.

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[SergeStorms]

1. We have a complete moron in the Oval Office.

Everyone is walking around on egg shells so they don't upset his assholiness. Trump is a fucking idiot, and it shows, but 35% of Americans just love the Idiot in Chief.

[denem]

11. Less than 30% love trump

President - approval


https://static.foxnews.com/foxnews.com/content/uploads/2020/08/Fox_August-9-12-2020_Complete_National_Topline_August-13-Release.pdf

[Permanut]

13. Extra credit for "assholiness". nt

[underpants]

2. Note to Biden staff

Actually reading the whole thing now.

[gratuitous]

6. My thought exactly

I don't mean to be telling the Biden campaign how to do their jobs, but keeping a handy compendium of Trump's trigger words might be a useful tool in case Trump persuades himself that he should take on the boss in a debate because he's such a master debater. Drop a few triggers on Trump and step back while he discombobulates.

[Salviati]

3. What a godamn snowflake

It's amazing how profoundly insecure he is, and astounding that it really isn't insecure enough given the gap between his ability and his responsibilities.

[Freethinker65]

4. You know who else was triggered by talk of white supremacy and Trump's rhetoric?

The 17 yo murderer from Antioch, IL

[C_U_L8R]

5. So when someone just says 'racist', Trump naturally assumes it's about him.

How revealing.

[agingdem]

7. I live in El Paso..

domestic terrorism "triggered" by the orange dung heap's spewing hate for my grandchildren...

[underpants]

8. This is firsthand testimony of what we already know - zero reverence and in over his head

This is like Michael Scott level nonsense.

The only plus is that he is clearly reluctant to use force. I don’t think it’s from any ideological standpoint because his only ideology is himself. If he does nothing he can’t screw up anything for Putin and he knows he can’t understand what Putin knows. Sure he could be briefed, read, and learn.....okay that was a joke.

He knows he screwed up on Charlottesville too. He knows what his pandering is doing.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

9. "find a way to show they were handling the situation"; rather than actually doing something good! nt

[CaptYossarian]

10. If the sheet fits...

[dalton99a]

14. +1

[Lonestarblue]

12. Trump is a child who throws a tantrum when denied what he wants.

And he never wants the truth, just fantasies that make him feel like a big, important strongman when in reality he is a weak little bully who runs to hide in his bunker when protesters raise their voices in chants against him. What a miserable excuse for a human being.

[MagickMuffin]

15. So, Elizabeth Neumann Top Homeland Security official VOTED for him in 2016

Did she just decide the interference from Russia wasn't that big of a deal?

Hillary Clinton with all her years of experience was not the best person for the job. Instead Elizabeth Neumann voted for a complete incompetent less qualified person with no experience to run our government.

I guess I'm glad she isn't hiding the fact she voted for him. But I'd say please don't give her job back, she lacks the necessary skills to be in that high a level of government.