Former US Envoy to Syria Boasts of How He Lied to Trump to Defy His Troop Withdrawal Orders

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DefenseOne reported Thursday that Jim Jeffrey, President Trump’s former special envoy for Syria, who got that job despite the fact that in 2016 he was a signer of “the now-infamous ‘Never Trump’ letter condemning then-presidential candidate Donald Trump as a danger to America,” has boasted that he circumvented Trump’s orders to withdraw American troops from Syria by lying to the President.

Jeffrey, according to DefenseOne, “acknowledges that his team routinely misled senior leaders about troop levels in Syria.” Jeffrey explained: “We were always playing shell games to not make clear to our leadership how many troops we had there,” and said that “the actual number of troops in northeast Syria is ‘a lot more than’ the roughly two hundred troops Trump initially agreed to leave there in 2019.”

Jeffrey decided to thwart the will of the Commander-In-Chief of the United States Armed Forces because, he said, the order to withdraw from Syria was “the most controversial thing in my fifty years in government.” Jeffrey, along with former Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, who resigned because of the order, appear to be indefatigably committed to the idea that Trump has publicly and repeatedly opposed: that the United States has a moral duty to act as the world’s policeman and commit our blood and treasure to ensuring that other countries have good governments, even as our own infrastructure crumbles, and even if this involves our getting embroiled in military adventures that have no conceivable national interest, goal, or end point.

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But at least Mattis chose the honorable option by resigning. Jeffrey covered himself in dishonor by staying on the job and deciding to set U.S. policy himself, despite never having been elected President and being entirely unaccountable to the American electorate.

Jeffrey even boasted about his defiance: “What Syria withdrawal? There was never a Syria withdrawal. When the situation in northeast Syria had been fairly stable after we defeated ISIS, [Trump] was inclined to pull out. In each case, we then decided to come up with five better arguments for why we needed to stay. And we succeeded both times. That’s the story.”

Who elected this clown? Who gave him the authority to determine United States policy toward Syria? Rating America’s Presidents discusses how Trump has been obstructed at every turn by a coterie of unelected, unaccountable bureaucrats who have arrogated power to themselves and represent the political, military, and media establishment. This oligarchy has decided to ignore the will of the people and rule the United States as its personal fiefdom, with a steady erosion of our constitutional freedoms.

In the 2020 presidential election, it appears at this point that they have beaten back the challenge to their hegemony that Trump represented. But at very least, now the existence of this sinister oligarchy is widely known. Most Americans assumed that when Trump became president, he would be able to implement his own agenda insofar as he could secure the cooperation of Congress, as other presidents had done. But now it is abundantly established that Jim Jeffrey was only one of an entrenched gang of bureaucrats at all levels who were determined to thwart his every move.

Although the media dismissed talk of a “deep state” as a conspiracy theory, the New York Times admitted its existence on September 5, 2018, when it published an anonymous op-ed that proclaimed, “I work for the president but like-minded colleagues and I have vowed to thwart parts of his agenda and his worst inclinations.” The author was revealed in October 2020 to be a low-level staffer, Miles Taylor, who never met Trump. The Times elaborated on these foes of Trump within his own administration in October 2019: “President Trump is right: The deep state is alive and well. But it is not the sinister, antidemocratic cabal of his fever dreams. It is, rather, a collection of patriotic public servants—career diplomats, scientists, intelligence officers and others—who, from within the bowels of this corrupt and corrupting administration, have somehow remembered that their duty is to protect the interests, not of a particular leader, but of the American people.”

While this sounded high-minded, there is no doubt whatsoever that the New York Times would have taken the opposite position if the federal bureaucracy had dared interfere with the Obama agenda. Even Jim Jeffrey might have been angry. But the Washington establishment has decided that insubordination in the Trump administration was only fitting and proper. The array of globalist, socialist, internationalist forces opposing Trump’s challenges to their hegemony would allow that establishment to take no other position.

Robert Spencer is the director of Jihad Watch and a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. He is author of 21 books, including the New York Times bestsellers The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades) and The Truth About Muhammad. His latest book is Rating America’s Presidents: An America-First Look at Who Is Best, Who Is Overrated, and Who Was An Absolute Disaster. Follow him on Twitter here. Like him on Facebook here.

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felix1999
felix1999
3 years ago

This is organized DECEIT on a MASSIVE SCALE within our own government. No Trump doesn’t have ESP and FEW on his side. It’s been that way for nearly FOUR YEARS! Trump’s biggest disadvantage was not having a political entourage on his side follow him into the WH. ALL other Presidents in modern time have had this because they are politicians. Trump was an outsider upsetting the corrupt apple cart and they wanted no parts of him or his agenda.

Presidents aren’t supposed to be dictators even though Obama was with no GOPe pushback. If Biden gets in, you will see what a real in the open tyrannical dictator looks like governing us and put Obama to shame. Trump will do what he can legally to get his rightfully earned second term. Another run in 2024 will be too late.

felix1999
felix1999
3 years ago

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felix1999
felix1999
3 years ago

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Bill
Bill
3 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

We are being attacked from without and within.

Bill
Bill
3 years ago

So was he lying then, or lying about this revelation?
So am I lying now, when I say I’d like to kick this guy’s a ss?
What’s his address, anyhow? I’m lying when I say I want to know, BTW…….

Bill
Bill
3 years ago
Reply to  Bill

Or am I?

patd
patd
3 years ago

The POS just admitted to treason and it’s time to start administering the justice to all of those that are guilty!!!!

tn_tea _ partyer_420
tn_tea _ partyer_420
3 years ago

This is one of the many reasons civil war is inevitable.

Dorrie_
Dorrie_
3 years ago

If that were to commence, how would Patriots know who to aim at. Nobody is wearing a uniform, remember. So do you just go into a business you THINK is liberal and shoot it up? Explain please.

Thanks

tn_tea _ partyer_420
tn_tea _ partyer_420
3 years ago
Reply to  Dorrie_

Democrats, ya’ll are evil and corrupt.

Dorrie_
Dorrie_
3 years ago

Sorry, moron, I’m NOT a Democrat! YOU seem quite evil and corrupt, however!! Go shoot up a store and see what it does for you. *eye roll*

Does it HURT to be as STUPID as you are??
Asking for a friend.

France-HP-a-ciel-ouvert
France-HP-a-ciel-ouvert
3 years ago

These sub-animalistic creatures have the balls to publicly admit that High Treason is to them what breathing is to us.
Something has to be done, and it must end with 0 communists left on Earth. 0.

Dorrie_
Dorrie_
3 years ago

Yes, start with George Soros!

ed
ed
3 years ago

Part of me says Gitmo….part of me says firing squad…..

Steve
Steve
3 years ago

So he put the lives of Americans in harms way cause he did not like Trump. Do you people get it yet? They HATE us.

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