EMPLOYERS, REPUBLICAN DONORS and anyone who contributed to or supported the ARMED WHITE DOMESTIC TERRORIST COUP needs to be put on alert!
YOU ENABLED TREASON, SEDITION, INSURRECTION and will pay for what you supported.
By LARA SELIGMAN, 01/08/2021
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They have been snubbed by potential employers, told they would be a “liability” and in one instance were even compared to the "Hitler Youth."
This is the job market many experienced national security officials who work for President Donald Trump are facing just days before a new president takes office and they will be out of work. Across the administration, national security officials have been struggling to find new employment, and conversations with seven former and current officials reveal that they have been tainted by their time working for Trump.
The problem became worse on Wednesday, after pro-Trump rioters stormed the U.S. Capitol, prompting several senior officials to resign in protest amid wide condemnation of Trump by Democrats and Republicans. “I’ve had conversations with people who’ve worked on the national security teams, many who are career intelligence officers, who are concerned about what happens next,” said Olivia Troye, a former Homeland Security and White House official who left in August and has been an outspoken critic of Trump’s response to the pandemic. “People who are hiring see everything that’s happened and have to question your morals and ethics — especially in terms of what continues to happen today — on why you chose to work for that environment," she said.
As lawmakers call for President Trump's removal from office after Wednesday's violent attempted coup, Trump is surrounding himself with an increasingly small circle of advisers.
Officials working in national security are particularly vulnerable to this challenge. Many are tied to controversial Trump policies and scandals, be it child separation at the border or the politicization of the military on display when top Pentagon leaders stood with Trump for a photo op after authorities forcefully cleared Lafayette Square of protesters. In some cases, the resistance that officials are meeting from would-be employers is extreme. One senior defense official, who has been looking for a new job for two years without luck, recalled a conversation in which they were told that they were considered part of the "Hitler Youth.”
“That attitude is not helpful,” the person said. The senior defense official broadly described a sense of “Trump administration animus” from potential outside employers, which is frustrating for officials who don't consider themselves "hardcore MAGA folks.”
During her own job search this summer, Troye was told directly by one potential employer that they could not offer her a job because she was a “liability.” “I can’t tell you how hurtful it was to hear that,” said Troye, noting that the incident was a reality check.
National security jobs are more difficult to get than most, as applicants need a security clearance and a specialized set of skills.
A career civilian rather than a political nominee, Troye said she took the White House job to “make a difference,” and fought against policies she thought were wrong. Yet the incident with the employer “showed me firsthand the repercussions of trying to navigate in that space,” she said.
Elizabeth Neumann, another former civil servant and Homeland Security official who worked on counterterrorism, said she did not directly face challenges in finding a new job after she resigned in April. But that was primarily because she immediately spoke out against Trump’s policies. Still, she recounted several instances during her job hunt in which she heard through her network that certain companies would never consider hiring her because she worked in the Trump administration.
While junior-level employees working on noncontroversial issues might not have problems finding new employment, anyone associated with controversial Trump policies, such as immigration, were blacklisted, Neumann said. “There is absolutely an effect of a number of organizations out there trying to blacklist anybody that worked on child separation," for example, Neumann said.
. . . . many Trump appointees who are now struggling to find jobs — everyone from junior staffers to Cabinet secretaries — are facing questions for not leaving sooner. Many of these officials are the same people who privately bemoaned Trump’s instability, but were “all too willing to enable it,” said another former senior official.
“They are finding that staying silent had a cost: to their consciences and to their careers,” the person said. “People knew Trump would be toxic, yet they hedged anyway in hopes that they might get four more years of job stability"....
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