A White House aide has confessed on video that the Deep State “is real,” and that bureaucrats inside the Health and Human Services Department (HHS) will block the initiatives of incoming Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
When the new secretary wants something done, the bureaucrats simply won’t do it.
Their tools will be inertia and outright lying, said Byron Cohen, a White House advisor on pandemic policy. The bureaucracy, he said, will “crush” RFK Jr.
Like many other lovelorn but loose-lipped soy boys high in the Democratic Party, Cohen spilled the beans to an undercover lady reporter from the O’Keefe Media Group (OMG).
Not a Trump Fan
Cohen made clear that RFK Jr. is headed for trouble when he tries to make America healthy again as HHS chieftain, a position that will give him broad authority over the bloated federal health bureaucracy.
Cohen allowed that “it’s pretty cool” working at the White House, and explained that he’s a Harvard-educated egghead with an expertise in public health.
But the job won’t be so “cool” with Donald Trump in charge.
“I can’t really think of anyone who I would less rather have be president than Trump, but that’s what the American people wanted, I guess.”
To his credit, Cohen did say he would stay in his job to ensure a “successful transition,” whatever that means to Cohen. But, he said, he won’t stay in his position if new White House officials don’t take his advice.
That assumes, of course, that he will be invited.
Cohen explained political appointees to the OMG reporter, and then segued into the bureaucracy’s plan to undermine Kennedy.
Beware RFK
“RFK Jr. is a very bad pick for HHS,” Cohen said. Asked whether the bureaucrats “can micromanage RFK,” Cohen said he’s “hoping someone just puts him in a closet.”
He continued:
I honestly think … there’s a good chance that the bureaucracy just crushes him. …
And so, it’s not just a matter of, like, ordering people to do things you want to do. Because they have ways that they can slow things down or block you without you realizing it. Like, people joke about the Deep State but, like, to some degree it’s real. … [T]he bureaucracy will do what is in the bureaucracy’s interest.