A White House official slammed Donald Trump‘s strikes on Iran as ‘pointless’ and only serving the ‘deep state,’ as Trump and Pete Hegseth have been fiercely defending them.
Andrew Kloster is a general counsel for the Office of Personnel Management which manages the civil service for the administration.
Kloster – who worked for Trump during his first term and most recently served in the same role for Matt Gaetz – posted a string of criticisms of the U.S. giving ‘handouts’ to Israel and suggesting fears of Iran getting a nuclear weapon were far-fetched.
An X user posted that ‘Iran’s nuclear sites being crushed seems a long-term benefit for the US.’
He responded from his now locked account: ‘I just think it was kind of pointless.’
The lawyer also retweeted Vish Burra, the former spokesperson for George Santos, who wrote: ‘Can we please ignore this god-forsaken region of Earth and their tribal squabbles?’
Kloster – who’s social media bio once included ‘Suicide bomber in the Butlerian jihad’ in a reference to the ‘Dune’ novels – eventually deleted the posts, including one writing: ‘I apologize and will never again doubt the power of the deep state.’
It’s not the first time Kloster has set off controversy, as the liberal Project on Government Oversight claimed he called himself ‘a raging misogynist.’
Andrew Kloster (pictured) is a general counsel for the Office of Personnel Management which manages the civil service for the administration
Kloster slammed Donald Trump’s (pictured) strikes on Iran as ‘pointless’ and only serving the ‘deep state
He did tweet in 2023: ‘I’m 100% women respecter precisely because I’m a raging misogynist. I’m so kind you’ll want to kill yourself and die, which is the goal.’
Kloster has almost made comments regarding consent – calling it ‘probably modern society’s most pernicious fetish’ – and race – joking that ‘Slaves owe us reparations.’
The New York Post reported that Kloster is believed to be an ally of Sergio Gor, the head of the Presidential Personnel Office who was said to be against Elon Musk.
DailyMail.com reached out to the Office of Personnel and Management for comment. A White House spokesperson declined comment.
On Tuesday, a leaked intelligence assessment claiming Donald Trump‘s strikes on Iran did not destroy Tehran’s nuclear program was deemed ‘flat-out wrong’ by the White House.
The report, conducted by the Defense Intelligence Agency and leaked by CNN, claims Saturday’s airstrike on three Iranian nuclear sites only set the country’s program back by months instead of completely destroying it.
Trump claimed the strikes ‘completely and totally obliterated’, a statement echoed by White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt who dismissed the assessment as a ‘clear attempt to demean President Trump’.
‘Everyone knows what happens when you drop fourteen 30,000 pound bombs perfectly on their targets: total obliteration,’ Leavitt said.
The lawyer also retweeted Vish Burra, the former spokesperson for George Santos , who wrote: ‘Can we please ignore this god-forsaken region of Earth and their tribal squabbles?’
Kloster – who worked for Trump during his first term and most recently served in the same role for Matt Gaetz – posted a string of criticisms of the U.S. giving ‘handouts’ to Israel and suggesting fears of Iran getting a nuclear weapon were far-fetched
Kloster – who’s social media bio once included ‘Suicide bomber in the Butlerian jihad’ in a reference to the ‘Dune’ novels – eventually deleted the posts, including one writing: ‘I apologize and will never again doubt the power of the deep state
Trump then went on a late night, all-caps rant against the ‘failing’ New York Times and CNN over what he called their ‘fake’ coverage of the impact of the Iran bombing.
The president made the post to his Truth Social account from the Netherlands, where he is attending a NATO summit, at what would have been near 4am local time.
He wrote: ‘FAKE NEWS CNN, TOGETHER WITH THE FAILING NEW YORK TIMES, HAVE TEAMED UP IN AN ATTEMPT TO DEMEAN ONE OF THE MOST SUCCESSFUL MILITARY STRIKES IN HISTORY. THE NUCLEAR SITES IN IRAN ARE COMPLETELY DESTROYED! BOTH THE TIMES AND CNN ARE GETTING SLAMMED BY THE PUBLIC!’
Both CNN and the Times reported that the weekend strikes against nuclear facilities in Tehran only set back Iran’s nuclear program a couple months.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, however, claimed the US military strike on Iran‘s nuclear facilities ‘buried them under a mountain of rubble,’ as the White House defends a leaked report claiming Donald Trump‘s attack did little damage.
‘Our massive bombs hit exactly the right spot at each target and worked perfectly. The impact of those bombs is buried under a mountain of rubble in Iran,’ Hegseth said.
‘So anyone who says the bombs were not devastating is just trying to undermine the President and the successful mission.’
A leaked report from the Defense Intelligence Agency claims Saturday’s airstrike on three Iranian nuclear sites only set the country’s program back by months instead of completely destroying it.
Sources said the US attack did not destroy Iran’s stockpile of enriched uranium and that the enriched uranium was moved out of the sites before the strikes.
Trump claimed the strikes ‘completely and totally obliterated,’ a statement echoed by White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt, who dismissed the assessment as a ‘clear attempt to demean President Trump.’
‘Everyone knows what happens when you drop fourteen 30,000-pound bombs perfectly on their targets: total obliteration,’ Leavitt said.
Trump faced calls for his impeachment on a sole charge of abuse of power over his launch of military strikes on Iran without first seeking authorization from Congress – but the House today overwhelmingly voted to block the resolution.
The president also appeared to be showing frustration with both Israel and Iran on Monday.
The president went on a foul-mouthed tirade saying that both Israel and Iran violated the ceasefire deal that he announced Monday evening.
‘We basically have two countries that have been fighting so long and so hard that they don’t know what the f*** they’re doing,’ Trump said before boarding Marine One en route to the NATO Summit early Tuesday morning.
The president said Monday evening that he had brokered a ceasefire between Iran and Israel after ordering his own strike on three Iranian nuclear sites over the weekend.
Earlier Monday, Iran had retaliated by sending missiles toward the U.S.’s largest military base in the Middle East, located just outside of Doha in Qatar, which didn’t prompt a response from Trump.
Instead he announced the ceasefire.
On Tuesday morning Trump was fired up after Israel decided to launch another massive assault on Iran just as the deal was to take hold.
‘Israel, as soon as we made the deal, they came out and they dropped a load of bombs, the likes of which I’ve never seen before, the biggest load that we’ve seen,’ an incredulous said.
‘I’m not happy with Israel,’ he added. ‘I’m not happy with Iran either. But I’m really unhappy if Israel’s going out this morning because of one rocket that didn’t land, that was shot, perhaps by mistake, that didn’t land. I’m not happy about that.’
