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National Park Service ‘Alt Rangers’ Fight Trump Within The Agency

Published

3 years ago

Jun 9, 2017

Rogue agents within the National Park Service have joined the anti-President Trump “Resist” movement to fight the White House from inside the federal government.

The self-proclaimed “Alt Rangers” oppose the president and also Trump administration Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke.

The Alt US NPS Twitter account proclaims: “Alt US National Park Service- Unofficial #Resistance movement. Climate change is scientific & exists. No drilling in National Parks.”

The group, claims to be comprised of 204 National Park Service employees plus National Park Service, EPA, and USDA employees and state-level workers. The group slams Zinke on the Trump administration’s support for coal.

Yes, if you zoom in on the folder, there is a tab near the top marked "COAL"… As if we didn't know what priorities were being pushed. Sad https://t.co/AyCb0Ilg4D

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— Alt US NPS (@ALTUSNPS) June 8, 2017

“Today our Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke defended the Trump administration’s budget cut request for the Interior Department. The budget cut is for $1.6 billion or 13 percent of our overall budget for the Interior Department,” the Alt National Park Service stated on Facebook Thursday night.

“Zinke has personally determined that many programs done within the Interior Department are unnecessary or a low priority. Among the purposed unnecessary or low priority programs are discretionary grants to help reclaim abandoned mine sites, National Heritage areas, and National Wildlife Refuges. These purposed cuts will also eliminate about 9,000 employees,” the group continued.

A source confirms to Big League Politics that a “Resist” sign was written on the chalkboard when he/she recently visited the Women’s Rights National Historical Park (screenshot below):

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The National Park Service released photos in March disputing President Trump’s crowd estimate for his inauguration festivities. A source told Big League Politics that the photos appeared due to a former Park Service employee that still had access to the agency’s Twitter account.

The Alt Rangers did not return a request for comment for this report by press time.

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Mike Pompeo Said to be Considering Senate Run, Secretary of State Replacement Sought

Pompeo may be vacating his position as Secretary of State.

Published

2 months ago

Dec 28, 2019

Richard Moorhead

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo may be preparing to resign his position to run for an open U.S Senate seat in Kansas, with Trump administration figures already researching possibilities for a potential replacement.

Trump administration officials are said to be eyeing current National Security Advisor Robert O’Brien in the event of a State Department vacancy. O’Brien has clicked with Trump far more cohesively than previous foreign policy advisors, such as fish-out-of-water neocon John Bolton and career military officer H.R McMaster.

Pompeo has always been a lukewarm executor of President Trump’s America First foreign policy platform, at times aligning with the President, yet also bowing to the conventional globalist wisdom prevalent throughout the federal department. The cabinet member began his service in the administration as Director of the CIA, an unaccountable secret agency known for extralegal attempts to interfere in American politics against the Trump campaign.

It appears Pompeo is being nudged to run for the Kansas Senate seat as a spoiler by the Republican establishment with the hopes of dashing former Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach’s campaign. Kobach is a staunch immigration patriot who currently holds a wide lead in statewide polling, but it appears Pompeo would stand a solid chance of besting him in a Republican primary.

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Pompeo’s switch from Secretary of State to Senatorial candidate doesn’t come across as the most glaring promotion. It’s possible that Mitch McConnell and bigwig Republican Senators are desperate enough to block Kris Kobach’s Senate bid that they’d manage to recruit Pompeo into taking a demotion for the cause.

He’s generally dismissed questions pertaining to a potential Kansas Senate bid, but the creation of a new personal Twitter account has made some believe he’s gearing up for a political campaign.

Pompeo’s departure could open up avenues to push the State Department in an America First direction, even if it damages Kobach’s Senate prospects. Pompeo has consistently agitated for military intervention against the Syrian government and generally fought for the United States to work for Saudi Arabian interests.