Report: One leftist Trump-hater wanted attorney general group to ‘infiltrate’ president’s transition team
One leftist Trump-hater who was part of a “bipartisan” organization of states’ attorneys general wanted, at the time, for the organization to “infiltrate” the president’s 2016 transition team.
A new report at the Federalist explains it was Karen White, then executive director of the Attorney General Alliance, who expressed her sentiments in an email exchange White had with “several unidentified individuals and Chris Coppin,” then legal director for an AG’s organization.
White insisted she has “ZERO relationship with the Trump transition team other than the news that JB Van Hollen is somehow involved there.”
The report said Van Hollen was Wisconsin’s Republican attorney general from 2007-2015 and moved on to the Democracy Defense Project, a far left organization.
“After referencing Van Hollen, White expressed hope that ‘we could all attempt an infiltration of the Trump transition team and try to pass former North Carolina Chief Deputy JB Kelly off’ as Van Hollen, whom she described as a ‘current Trump insider,'” the report explained.
The report said it was unclear what White thought could be accomplished through an “infiltration.”
It also remained unclear what would be accomplished by passing off former North Carolina Chief Deputy JB Kelly as Van Hollen.
Now a private attorney, Kelly previously served as general counsel to then-North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper, who later was governor and now is continuing in politics, the report said.
Kelly told the Federalist no one, not White nor anyone else with the AGs’ organization, discussed with him or approached him about any “infiltration.”
Van Hollen did not respond to The Federalist’s request for comment.
The report also pointed out White repeatedly has expressed opposition to Trump, expressing anger at comments he made.
In fact, she objected to associating with anyone who associated with him.
She said, in one exchange, “If the man does get elected president, no one will ever have to worry about me wanting to be in any meeting, ever, anywhere, with anyone associated with him.”
GOP members of the AGs group later have been working with the Trump administration on the White House effort to end the “birthright citizenship” granted to the children of illegal aliens born in the U.S.
White House documentation shows that never was the original intent of the constitutional amendment, even though it has been the practice for a good number of years.
Such “birthright citizenship” is a problem for the U.S. because birth tourism participants enter the U.S. illegally and give birth, and those “citizen” babies then act as anchors inside the U.S. for entire families.