Multiple officials in President Donald Trump’s administration have expressed little concern that their working for Trump will affect their ability to find work in the future, Politico reports.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., tweeted last week asking: “Is anyone archiving these Trump sycophants for when they try to downplay or deny their complicity in the future? I foresee decent probability of many deleted Tweets, writings, photos in the future.”
However, multiple people working in the Trump administration, who remained anonymous, told Politico that they don’t think their time in the White House will negatively affect them.
"The Democrats will face significant backlash for this and as per usual, they’ve gone way too far,” said one former senior administration official. “Making a list of your political enemies and promising that they will get payback and people will go after them because they worked for a different political party is literally fascism.”
“For somebody like me, I'm writing a book, I'm going to write a sequel,” said one Trump adviser. “I get paid handsomely to give speeches. I have my corporate consulting. Maybe that’s not everyone else. But I can’t imagine I’m alone in that way … Even the younger staffers — people still want people who worked in the White House. You have breathed rarefied air.”
Another official said: “I think there’s a sense of relief that because the election was so close and win or lose, it clearly was not a repudiation of the president, so I think that gives people a lot of comfort.”
A third official added, “The general thinking is that people are actually feeling hopeful about the trajectory of the GOP because it was so close, so even if the president loses, it shows that there are a lot of people like us, or at least who support what we did. So I think people are feeling better about job possibilities.”
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