2017 'hit lists' show that team Trump has long eyed political opponents

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Just months into his presidency, a small circle of senior White House advisers met with Donald Trump about a carefully curated list containing the names of dozens of perceived political opponents, particularly leakers, working inside the government

A detailed account of the meeting was revealed for the first time to CNN by two former senior administration officials, who said that the April 2017 gathering included then senior strategist Steve Bannon and former national security adviser H.R. McMaster. After being shown the list, the President told McMaster to deal with it, according to one of the officials.

Higgins says that over the course of several months, the group worked off other similar lists that were circulating and created new versions that contained roughly four dozen people who they felt were politically opposed to Trump, including Obama appointees, those detailed to the White House and"Never Trumpers." The list shrank or expanded in the following months depending on normal staff rotation, Higgins said.

 

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Remember Bannon’s Strategy: 3 Verticals/Buckets of Focus: 1. National Security & Sovereignty 2. Economic Nationalism 3. Deconstruction of the Administrative State

Moi

Political opponents and those leakers have nothing in common They are just traitors

How would you know this CNN? Liars.

Perfect. Oust them ALL!

Wow slow day there at cnn. This is the best anti trump story you could create today. Cmon get some new material.

This WH has been plagued with leakers. Should have cleared the leakers out years ago.

stillyourpresident

Sounds a lot like Nixon's 'Enemies List'

WTF banana republic are we living in

And from now until the end of time... it will be a laundry list of all the atrocities the Cheeto in Chief did. History knows no political parties

Your health is as you feel!

In many cases, leaking this information is a federal crime. It's an ethical lapse in the very least. It was a good initiative and likely fairly common in administrations.

BEWARE: America trump's shadow govt. is going after anyone that speaks truth to trump.

Like a good mob boss, taking steps to settle all family disputes.

Let’s fire cnn and it’s affiliation with Comcast . We want news not opinions based on a scripted biased narrative . fireCnnnow stop the bias in news we want fair news not racist news

CNN SUCKS.

Bc TRUMP IS A TRAITOR AND A WANNA BE DICTATOR

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