“They were so quick to disband AID, the group that supposedly instigates color revolutions. But they’ve done a very foolish thing. You just released a bunch of well-trained individuals into your population. If you kept our offices going and had us play solitaire in the office, it might have been safer to keep your regime.”

– a “currently employed federal official,” who spoke to NOTUS on condition of anonymity for an article the website ran Monday on fired USAID and other federal workers plotting an insurrection against the Trump administration.