Rick Wilson got a message from trump team member?

[Laura PourMeADrink]

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A very, VERY senior member of the Trump administration — whom Rick Wilson agreed not to identify — sent a message directly to Wilson. Rick shared the message with the audience of the show, never revealing the identity of the sender. The message was as follows: “I regret serving in his administration more than anything I’ve ever done in my life. Keep going. You’re patriots. Don’t quit.”

After reading the message to the Breakdown audience, Wilson ended the brief segment with a few choice words of his own: “And if you knew who that was, your f*cking eyes would pop out.”

[GPV]

1. John Kelly?

[gab13by13]

3. It would have to be a devout Trumper.

[Maru Kitteh]

102. Not a Trumper - a TRUMP. As in Ivanka

That's what I believe.

[spooky3]

53. He's already spoken out. So Rick should /would not be saying

Our eyes would pop out.

[thesquanderer]

60. I'm going with Mick Mulvaney. n/t

[Laura PourMeADrink]

100. Makes sense, but can't see it being jaw dropping?

[Ponietz]

2. Two bits on Jeff Sessions

[Hugh_Lebowski]

6. That's a pretty sensible guess I gotta say

It wouldn't be THAT eye-popping but it definitely worked out poorly for that guy. Same is true for Bolton.

Kellyanne is not unthinkable here, nor is Kayleigh, nor is Spicer.

The most mind-blowing would be Stephen Miller.

[Butterflylady]

37. Not miller, he loves hurting people.

He is trumps little nazi.

[Ponietz]

83. "I regret serving in his administration..."

This suggests:
—someone appointed, not elected, like fly guy
—someone who walked away and can maintain they took the high road after their eyes were opened.

I’d consider a side bet on Elaine Chao, though.

[Renew Deal]

88. I don't think that would be eye popping

It could be someone like Pompeo

[Tetrachloride]

4. Does it matter who

Not to me

damage happened over and over

karma is happening worldwide

[Skittles]

5. whoever it is is a fucking COWARD

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FUCK these enablers, FUCK THEM ALL

[Quakerfriend]

20. +1 !!

[Lochloosa]

24. +2

[Ferrets are Cool]

28. This

[dem4decades]

41. Yep, secretly saying that does nothing.

[AllyCat]

39. Right? Secret messages to someone's show?

Show yourself coward! Do something to put these horrors behind bars!

[tanyev]

46. Yep. Even if you supported Trump because you thought he could be "managed",

it was pretty obvious within weeks how his presidency was going to go. The person who contacted Wilson probably stuck around for quite a while, saw many horrible things and did very little to try and stop it.

[spooky3]

55. Agree. Should have spoken out then resigned a long time ago. Nt

[niyad]

71. Exactly.

[Oneironaut]

108. Yep. They're an absolutely craven scumbag.

You can’t enable Trump’s criminality, and then do this, “You’re doing a good thing - keep it up!” That is, without being a total piece of shit.

[lamp_shade]

7. epshteyn perhaps?

[canetoad]

29. I get the impression

That Epshteyn is still a believer. My bet is John Kelly but I think we all knew that already.

[Brainfodder]

74. Speaks volumes that there are half dozen suspects+?

John Kelly hit my brain immediately on this one and I hadn't heard his name or thought about him in ages.

Accurate shocker though if it was Michael Flynn?

[Maraya1969]

90. I haven't seen the name Pence and that would be my guess

I think he is crackpot, self serving and power hungry but Pence seems to have some tiny bit of empathy and I do not see how he felt about the child separation policy at the border with the subsequent kidnapping of thousands of migrant children.

Whoever it is must be someone who has some conscience.

[Irish_Dem]

8. Very, VERY senior member and our eyes would pop out?

Could it be Jared or Ivanka?

[mtngirl47]

9. Jared and Ivanka don't know how to "serve"

They were in the administration to grift

[Irish_Dem]

10. True. They wouldn't even think to say the word "serve."

[Bernardo de La Paz]

12. They didn't "serve". They worked for the tRump-Kuchner mob

I don't think they would have used the phrase 'served in his administration'.

[Irish_Dem]

15. Yes they think that people who serve are fools and suckers.

[ecstatic]

54. Honestly those are the only possibilities that would surprise me

They lined their pockets very well during our 4 year nightmare. Several patents and at least 2 billion dollars... If they were truly feeling regret, they could start the path to redemption by returning the money and signing those patents over to the American people. 🙄

[Ms. Toad]

96. Pretty sure neither one of them got any patents.

If you mean trademarks, unless the US wants to start marketing whatever they are marketing they are worthless. Trademarks are simply source identifiers (including but not limited to brand names).

[PatSeg]

56. Or Mike Pence?

Doesn't get more senior than that.

[BadgerMom]

69. My thought.

In the past week he’s just beginning to feel the growth of a spine. It’s slow, for sure, but maybe sending a message without his name attached to a dissident Republican show after failing to testify to a Congressional committee or to stand up for himself or his family-maybe this is courage to him.

[PatSeg]

79. Yes, I think that is as courageous as

Pence can get. Who knows, maybe he prayed on it and God told him to grow a spine and speak up! Maybe he has to do it in baby steps until he can become comfortable with bravery and honesty.

[hatrack]

87. "Spine"? Not sure sure - maybe the beginnings of a notochord.

[PJMcK]

76. My bet, too (n/t)

[MiHale]

11. Meadows...

[Bernardo de La Paz]

13. That's my guess too. . . nt

[Irish_Dem]

14. Meadows or Pence?

[Bernardo de La Paz]

17. I considered Pence too, but he was a weak VP, despite being "in charge" of pandemic response

I don't have much to go on, but I don't think Pence actually did much, actually made many crucial decisions in the pandemic response. Didn't Kuchner have an outsized role in that?

[calimary]

33. Pence. He's growing more outspoken by the day.

“Very VERY senior” member?

Couldn’t be anybody else. And EVERYBODY’S eyes would pop out if that’s who it is.

Besides, this particular “Mr. Morality” has a conscience - one he buried WAY deep while he was “in bed” with trump. And what he knows he enabled has been bothering him bigtime ever since then.

[Hugh_Lebowski]

43. I dunno if Meadows risks telling Rick Wilson something like that on condition of anonymity

I mean whoever came out with this had to at least be considering the possibility that Wilson would betray them/give their name out anyway.

I don't know if Meadows risks that at this particular stage, even if it were what he now thinks. I'm sure he's very lawyered up and I doubt any lawyer would advise him telling Rick Wilson something like that.

Pence seems like a more logical choice esp. now that I see this person was purportedly in the admin from 2016-2020. That's not many people.

[Lonestarblue]

16. Or maybe Pence because he wants to be president so badly but is now deemed a traitor by the

MAGA cult.

[Irish_Dem]

18. Yes Pence is trying to re-hab his image now.

So if fits that he would call talk shows.

[thesquanderer]

66. If it's Pence, it would be self-serving at least as much as "patriotic."

While he has to be careful in criticizing Trump publicly, his slim-to-none chance of being the republican nominee increases a bit if Trump is somehow cut off at the knees, so his support of Wilson's efforts would make sense.

Though I'm not sure I see Pence listening to a Rick Wilson podcast. Or even knowing how to.

[Irish_Dem]

78. All of the GOPers who are criticizing Trump now are self serving.

But yes more so if they are running for office.

Pence has a PR team who tells him what to say and where to say it.
He didn't think up any of this.

So it does make sense the call came from Pence.

[GoCubsGo]

27. That's my guess, as well. However,

I imagine the vast majority of them are having massive regrets right now.

[MLAA]

63. That's my guess.

What a coward.

[speak easy]

19. Barr

or Bolton.

[allegorical oracle]

25. Don't think that either of them would've requested anonymity. nt

[speak easy]

31. No, it's Pence.

I just listened to Rick: "Very, very, very senior member of the Trump Administration, 2016 - 2020"

[Hugh_Lebowski]

42. Considering basically nobody else was part of his admin 2016-2020

That seems like a pretty good guess.

I'll laugh though if it was actually Jared. Dude got crazy good benefits by being part of the regime.

[speak easy]

62. I doubt Jared ever regretted his 2 billion dollars.

[PatSeg]

57. That was my impression as well

I think it is Mike Pence.

[allegorical oracle]

70. Why would Pence ask Wilson not to give out his name? Pence is on CNN right now

being very public about how he doesn't believe someone who acted the way tfg did shouldn't be re-elected.

[speak easy]

72. Contacting an anti-GOP group would sink his campaign,

and the donations therein.

[PJMcK]

77. Agreed

Both Barr and Bolton have been outspoken and critical of Trump.

My money is on Pence.

Or maybe Meadows who has been remarkably invisible. Why is that?

[tavernier]

21. I can see Giuliani saying that during a lucid moment

I think he might regret going from tbe nation’s mayor to the driver of the clown car.

[Wonder Why]

48. That's a pretty big assumption - that he has lucid moments any more. :-)

[tavernier]

75. Ok, you win.

[ExWhoDoesntCare]

97. Was he part of the Admin all four years, though?

I don't remember that he was, and he grosses me out too much to pollute my computer with a search for his name.

[marble falls]

22. Why not pop our eyes out?

[allegorical oracle]

23. Someone who has a double-crossing mentality but is afraid of djt's brown shirts...

Giuliani?

[YDogg]

26. Rex Tillerson.

[FakeNoose]

93. He was gone after the first year

I'm SURE Rex Tillerson does regret ever being in the same state as Chump, no question.

Whoever sent this message to Rick Wilson was in the Chump administration for the entire 4 years. How many people could that be? Almost everyone quit or got fired, except Mike Pence and only a handful of others.

[YDogg]

107. Good point ...

... I had forgotten how long (not so long) Tillerson was with the misadministration.

[RVN VET71]

30. Melania?

Sure, she wasn't technically a "senior member" of the administration. But she was responsible for changing the rose garden into a concrete slab and, of course, for some very Tim Burtonesque White House Christmas decor -- and in so-doing, made a very public image of Trump's soul.

And we know she hated the morbidly obese, incontinent loud mouth even more than he hates people of color.

So she had motive (hatred) and opportunity (because she has plenty of time on her hands) -- and quite possibly a friend or servant who could show her how the "message" thing works.

[speak easy]

32. Pence

Rick : "Very, very, very senior member of the Trump Administration, 2016 - 2020"

[tanyev]

34. Reince Priebus?

He's been pretty quiet lately.

[gordianot]

35. Someone who was privy to the coup and is threatened by Trumps's rants.

They are probably about to testify against him and do not have a deal with Jack Smith. That qualifies them as enablers turned sniveling cowards. It could be from a cast of hundreds.

[C_U_L8R]

36. Whoever it is.

If they have any integrity to even their own feelings, they ought to be testifying and turning over every bit of evidence they can.

[Tarzanrock]

38. Probably one of the Generals

Probably one of the "Generals" and likely either John Kelly, James Mattis, or H.R. McMaster.

[JI7]

81. None of those would "make eyes pop out"

And they have already been critical or had differences .

[bucolic_frolic]

40. Someone considered, in the public eye, as ABSOLUTELY loyal to Trump

And regrets indicate to me that they think it will impact their career going forward, and someone that served in a position in the administration for years, not months. Someone 40-55 years of age in my opinion.

Hmmm.

[SouthernDem4ever]

44. So sick of these cowards that won't take a stand publicly

[FalloutShelter]

49. Me too! Eff them to the tenth power.

Still hiding in the shadows pretending to be a patriot.

[Random Boomer]

45. Yawn

An anonymous enabler wringing their hands now... Too little, too late.

[WiVoter]

47. I'm Sure It's A Long List

But whoever it is is definitely a coward.

[ecstatic]

50. Rick should have ignored the text

If s/he's still too much of a coward to come forward, it means they'll fall in line again should the worst happen and tfgi gets reinstalled. So, fuck whoever sent that. They enabled and supported the coup attempt.

That said, if someone has the time or interest they could check the Twitter accounts of the senior members and see who writes like that. But I don't care. They're all traitors but the sane ones (if any) would certainly regret working for tfg.

[spanone]

51. 👍🏼...K&R...👍🏼

[jaxexpat]

52. At this point, anything former members of Trumps inner circle (was there ever such a thing?).......

anonymously volunteer is largely pre-fall cushioning and politics of a most self-serving nature. Rick Wilson's stature as an honest broker of historical truths is not increased by this. "F*cking eyes would pop out" indeed! What could be the possible use for maintaining this fellow's anonymity unless they're both afraid of Trump? OR, and most likely, the role of "mystery" source will best extend their short shelf-life click-bait value. Clicks are the coin of the realm, you know.

[KewlKat]

58. What about Kelly Ann Conway? She was with him

The whole time.

[speak easy]

64. It cost Kelly her marriage.

[SpamWyzer]

59. I am willing to guess...

based on Wilson's "...eyes pop out" comment and based on what happened in a parking lot yesterday to the ex-VP45...the call he received came from Mike Pence.

[musclecar6]

61. As

Others have said, I’m guessing Pence. We know obviously Kelly has no use for that deplorable person, along with many many others, if they told the truth.

[Pacifist Patriot]

65. I'll believe it when the coward says it publicly.

[yardwork]

67. I assume it's Pence. But whoever it is, too cowardly to come out and say it.

[Meadowoak]

86. Yep, that'd be Pence

[Beastly Boy]

68. Bill Barr makes most sense to me.

He had a decent reputation coming in. He had it completely ruined going out. His legacy, which he values most, is cemented, but not in a way he wanted or expected. A lot to regret and no one left to care when he bitches about it.

[Meadowoak]

73. Lindsey Graham?

[JI7]

82. It says a member of the administration

[usonian]

80. I hate to say anything good about Mike Pence, but

name me ANYONE who defied the orange turd in a meaningful way. The others obeyed until they saw the hammer coming for themselves, and fled.

Completely gutless and without moral compass. Actions count.

[MyMission]

84. Perhaps Pompeo?

Many here suggested pence, but he was vp, an honor and responsibility he took seriously, so I don't think he'd regret that.

Pompeo, I haven't seen or heard anything about him in a while. He had aspirations that got squashed by his association with tfg.

Just a thought.

[JI7]

91. Pompeo makes more sense. He was going to run for President

but I think decided not to and hasn't said anything.

Most of those being named are already publicly critical of Trump including Pence even though he is tryng to make excuses. There wouldn't be any need for them to contact Wilson to say this.

[roamer65]

85. I'd bet on Pence.

[Renew Deal]

89. Pompeo

Is my guess

[AnotherMother4Peace]

92. Ivanka is my first guess. Pence is my second. nt

[FakeNoose]

94. I believe Ivanka sincerely regrets working in the White House

... however I don't think she's ever been on friendly terms with Rick Wilson. I don't believe she'd ever send a message like that to him or anyone else, even though she truly feels that way.

This has to be Mike Pence ...

[Laura PourMeADrink]

99. How? She adored her father. May know he's wayward and

going down fast, but truly can't see her throwing him under bus? Convince me?

[AnotherMother4Peace]

105. Well it's a hunch based on what some consider a conspiracy theory: I think trump

had something to do with Ivana's (Ivanka's mother) fall-down-the-stairs death. This is why:
He holds a grudge and boasts about the revenge he gets. Trump blamed her for his fucked up hair transplant procedure. Ivana recommended someone to him. He assaulted and raped her, which she testified to in her divorce deposition, which pissed trump off all the more. I believe he found his time for revenge. I believe Ivanka and her siblings know this.

And I guess her NDA was soon going to expire (according to another du'er).

[Laura PourMeADrink]

106. Very interesting theory. Wouldn't put anything past them. Just

to me, too much of a leap for her to encourage someone who could implicate her in shady behavior. Or implicate the father of her kids. But it would make my eyes pop out!

[Poiuyt]

95. Ivanka or Jared

No one else would make my eyes pop out

[Maru Kitteh]

101. Ivanka. Exactly what I thought as well. nt

[Laura PourMeADrink]

98. Was thinking it was someone Rick Wilson knew

And trusted.. no way ( former advisor) no way could it be Rudy.

[Mz Pip]

103. Meadows or Jared

Both have been very quiet.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

104. Jared would definitely be jaw dropping. But cant

See him as a patriot ( saying carry on )