# Trump friends had plan to discredit his "enemies' in government **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [May 13, 2021, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-friends-had-plan-to-discredit-his-enemies-in-government/942035 "2021-05-13T19:39:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Bijou\_Drains](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bijou_drains/32/2814_2.png) [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2021, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-friends-had-plan-to-discredit-his-enemies-in-government/942035/1 "2021-05-13T19:39:08Z")
Including his own national security advisor. H R McMaster [https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/13/us/politics/mcmaster-fbi-trump-project-veritas.html?smid=tw-share](https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/13/us/politics/mcmaster-fbi-trump-project-veritas.html?smid=tw-share) ---
**Author:** ![Bijou\_Drains](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bijou_drains/32/2814_2.png) [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2021, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-friends-had-plan-to-discredit-his-enemies-in-government/942035/2 "2021-05-14T14:30:21Z")
Nobody has a comment on this? ---
**Author:** ![Lightnin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightnin/32/180_2.png) [@Lightnin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightnin)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2021, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-friends-had-plan-to-discredit-his-enemies-in-government/942035/3 "2021-05-14T14:32:58Z")
I imagine nobody is in the least bit surprised. Trump’s got a tsunami of litigation headed his way, toss this on the pile. ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2021, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-friends-had-plan-to-discredit-his-enemies-in-government/942035/4 "2021-05-14T15:40:05Z")
The results of this plan and whatever attempts were made to actually carry it out seem pretty thin. From that perspective, yay. I always said (in my head) that our government institutions are too robust to fall prey to this kind of effort in the short term. Of course it’s awful and disgusting for a President or any government official to engage in these kinds of behaviors, or to encourage them in their supporters. It is not news that right-wing backers of the disgraced former president are awful and disgusting people. ---
**Author:** ![Bijou\_Drains](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bijou_drains/32/2814_2.png) [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2021, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-friends-had-plan-to-discredit-his-enemies-in-government/942035/5 "2021-05-14T16:44:40Z")
somewhere Tricky Dick is smiling ---
**Author:** ![RitterSport](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rittersport/32/6326_2.png) [@RitterSport](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RitterSport)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2021, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-friends-had-plan-to-discredit-his-enemies-in-government/942035/6 "2021-05-14T18:19:57Z")
I, for one, am surprised, nay shocked!, that Trump and his supporters had authoritarian tendencies and used authoritarian methods. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2021, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-friends-had-plan-to-discredit-his-enemies-in-government/942035/7 "2021-05-14T18:27:21Z")
> [@Bijou\_Drains](#): > > Including his own national security advisor. H R McMaster It worked. McMaster was totally discredited by being named to a major role in the Trump administration.