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no_hypocrisy

(53,633 posts)
Fri Oct 31, 2025, 05:13 AM Yesterday

The 'Shadow President' Dismantling The Government/WNYC/Fresh Air

In a New Yorker article co-published with ProPublica, reporter Andy Kroll describes Russell Vought, director of the Office of Management and Budget, as a "shadow president" with oversized influence. “I don't think you can take in the full sweep of what this administration has done in less than a year and not come away with thinking that chaos is a goal, and certainly an outcome that serves Vought and his team’s larger agenda of putting cracks in the federal government, shaking the stability of this typically rock-solid steady institution that is the federal bureaucracy,” Kroll says.

https://www.wnyc.org/story/the-shadow-president-dismantling-the-government

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The 'Shadow President' Dismantling The Government/WNYC/Fresh Air (Original Post) no_hypocrisy Yesterday OP
Vought shoves in the knife; then Miller twists it. nt Buns_of_Fire Yesterday #1
And Trump spreads it around like shit. ananda Yesterday #6
It's ALL JustAnotherGen Yesterday #2
The two of them are Trump's brain because there isn't much left of his real one. Lonestarblue Yesterday #3
Vought is... GiqueCee Yesterday #5
It's a deal between three devils Martin Eden Yesterday #4

JustAnotherGen

(37,327 posts)
2. It's ALL
Fri Oct 31, 2025, 06:57 AM
Yesterday

Vought and Miller. They both need to be sent to Gitmo. They are unAmerican and i want these two taint warts gone.

Lonestarblue

(13,063 posts)
3. The two of them are Trump's brain because there isn't much left of his real one.
Fri Oct 31, 2025, 07:32 AM
Yesterday

Unfortunately, neither of them is a decent human being or has an ounce of honesty and integrity.

GiqueCee

(2,966 posts)
5. Vought is...
Fri Oct 31, 2025, 08:04 AM
Yesterday

... Trump's Rasputin.
Remember what happened to Rasputin, Russell? Ya might want to Google it. And know this: You will NOT succeed in your despicable treachery, and you will go down. Hard.

Martin Eden

(15,088 posts)
4. It's a deal between three devils
Fri Oct 31, 2025, 08:03 AM
Yesterday

Vought gets to dismantle the government built by The People and their representatives.

Miller gets to sink his fangs into brown people he hates.

Emperor Trump gets to parade around naked in his new clothes.

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