John A. Gentry

that I mentioned are as strong or stronger.

So you recall I mentioned two basic motives, political, ideological, and then an interest-based one.

So there are a lot of people who benefit from DEI policies who will not want to see them reversed.

Well, if Trump is a viable candidate, and at this stage of game, the polls are showing that he's going to be competitive, if in fact he becomes the Republican nominee in July of 2024,

My guess is that we'll begin to see leaks and a new generation of activism.

And as I said, the activism started in 2016 because people worried about what Trump might do.

And then, of course, he turned out to be not much of a tangible threat at all.

Well, it's pretty clear now that some of the advisors of the Trump campaign are well aware of President Trump's deficiencies.

And I mean, I use that, that's not a term that I think is not being used.

So he was, again, not really paying attention in the,

management of the personnel of the federal government.

People who were close to him, I'm told, are now well aware of that.

They're talking about that publicly, so this is not all inside information, although I know a little bit that's not public, but clearly it's public statements are the

The campaign recognizes that there were deficiencies here.

So the activists, or excuse me, the former activists, the people who were worried that there might be a reversal, who worried in 2016 there might be a reversal, have more reason to be concerned this year.

Because some of Trump's advisors made it pretty clear they're gonna change things if they have a chance.

So my guess is new generation of formers, largely, maybe some of the old timers, but the leakers will come back.

So we had a big surge in leaks in 2016, 21.

None of them were, were,

caught and publicly punished.