40 out of 44 members of Trump’s former cupboard refused to endorse him for president in 2024.
Since July 2023, the declare that “40 of 44” members of Trump’s former cupboard refused to endorse his 2024 bid for the presidency has unfold throughout a number of social media platforms, including X and Facebook. A preferred iteration of the declare circulates within the type of a meme that includes former Trump administration headshots:
“The remainder of the nation most likely must see that for the flashing pink flag that it’s,” this and comparable iterations of the declare learn.
For a number of causes, this declare is fake. The numbers come from a July 2023 report from NBC Information that was made upfront of the 2024 GOP major contest. Because the outlet reported, its reporters tried to achieve as many former Trump administration officers as doable, and solely 4 affirmatively acknowledged they supported his run at the moment:
NBC Information reached out to 44 of the handfuls of people that served in Trump’s Cupboard over his time period in workplace. Most declined to remark or ignored the requests. A complete of 4 have stated publicly they help his run for re-election.
A number of have been coy about the place they stand, stopping wanting endorsing Trump with the GOP major race underway. Then there are those that outright oppose his bid for the GOP nomination or are adamant that they do not need him again in energy.
Describing a pool of 40 folks primarily composed of those that “declined to remark” or “ignored” a request to remark earlier than the GOP primaries as those that actively “refused” to endorse his candidacy is a distortion of an out-of-date determine. Of the 44 people NBC contacted, these 4 affirmatively endorsed him in July 2023:
These backing Trump’s bid for one more time period embody former appearing Legal professional Common Matthew Whitaker; Mark Meadows, his ultimate chief of employees; former finances chief Russell Vought; and former appearing director of nationwide intelligence Richard Grenell, who in June tweeted “Trump 2024” above a tweet from Trump’s essential GOP rival, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.
Several of the individuals who made no assertion within the July 2023 NBC Information report did publicly endorse Trump previous to the November 2024 presidential election. In August 2024, the Washington Put up tracked the positions of 42 former members of Trump’s cupboard. They concluded greater than half (24 of 42) supported his run for President at the moment:
In complete, The Put up reached out to all 42 members of Trump’s Cupboard, asking every of them whether or not they supported his presidential bid. Twenty responded. Twenty-two did not, however we had been in a position to decide via public statements that 9 of them backed Trump’s candidacy and two did not.
Because the Put up reported, the record of former cupboard members supporting the president is considerably bigger than 4, and contains a number of folks wrongly included in viral photographs shared alongside the meme. That record contains former Housing and City Growth Secretary Ben Carson, former Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, former Power Secretary Rick Perry, former Attorneys Common Invoice Barr and Jeff Periods, and former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.
As a result of the absence of an endorsement will not be a refusal to endorse, and since greater than half of Trump’s former cupboard did, in reality, finally help Trump’s common election run for president in 2024, the declare is fake.
