careers in civil service. They had approached the prospect of serving the Trump administration in good faith, only to realize the task before them was undoable. So they resigned, feeling they had essentially been left with no other choice.

The Huffington Post assembled these “Trump quitters” to discuss their decisions and reflect on what led them to it. In attendance were Mike Cox, the ex-climate change advisrr to the Environmental Protection Agency; Ned Price, former CIA agent and National Security Council spokesperson; Sharon McGowan, the former principal deputy chief of the Justice Department’s civil rights division; and Walter Shaub, former head of the Office of Government Ethics.

The resulting conversation was filled with insights into the Trump administration, from its anti-truth stance and its anti-fact outlook to its ineptitude andago, the 17 agencies within the U.S. intelligence community jointly implicated Russia in cyberespionage attacks on the Clinton campaign and DNC. Not only did Trump dismiss those reports, but just days shy of the inauguration following the emergence of the Steele dossier, the president-elect compared those intelligence agencies to Nazis (a term he refuses to use against actual Nazis).

The whole spectacle left a bad taste in the mouth of career CIA analyst Ned Price, who began to have a crisis of confidence in Trump that started before the election, and continued as he disgraced the office of the presidency.

“It actually began for me during the campaign when I heard candidate Trump repeatedly take on the intelligence community in an aggressive, concerted manner,” Price told HuffPo. “It wasn’t just