Trump Likes To Hire People with “Countervailing Viewpoints”

As a follow up to Trump’s famous: “What You’re Seeing and What You’re Reading Is Not What’s Happening,” we have this from The Hill:

Asked about why President Trump has lashed out at his former Cabinet members, calling some “incompetent” and “dumb as a rock,” White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany said it’s because Trump likes to hire people with opposing viewpoints: “He likes the model of having a ‘team of rivals’ like what we saw in President Lincoln’s administration,. I’ve been a part of that. I often see rigorous debate and the president uses his gut and makes the best decision how to move forward.”

If Trump weren’t aggressively demolishing the United States on a daily basis, stuff like this would be funny.  Who on Earth is stupid enough to believe it? Even his supporters know that the last 3.5 years has been a more-or-less continuous process of purging anyone who has even the very slightest of disagreement with the president.

Sometimes I think this woman in on a mission to tell the most outrageous lies possible, just to upset the American public and see how far she and this administration can push this country to Orwell’s 1984, where: “The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”