Never-Trumpers have been working against the President since before he took office.
Now it’s being revealed just how far they were willing to go.
And an email exposed this RINO plot to infiltrate and undermine Trump's Presidency.
Leader Of AG Group Suggested "Infiltrating" Trump's 2016 Transition Team
Karen White runs the Attorney General Alliance, a group that claims it brings together state AGs from both parties to "foster collaboration" on legal issues.
Twenty-four Republican attorneys general currently belong to the organization White has led for 25 years.
Records obtained by The Federalist exposed what White really thinks about Trump and the conservatives who work with him.
In October 2016 emails, White proposed launching an "infiltration" of Trump's transition team.
She suggested trying to pass off a former North Carolina deputy attorney general as a "Trump insider" to gain access to the incoming administration.
White wrote that the scheme would "up the average IQ of the Trump transition team" if successful.
She made clear she wanted nothing to do with anyone connected to Trump.
"If the man does get elected president, no one will ever have to worry about me wanting to be in any meeting, ever, anywhere, with anyone associated with him," White wrote.
She called herself "one very p-ssed off female who happens to have been highly offended by Trump's 'hot mic' remarks."
Republicans Fund Organization Run By Trump-Hater
Many of the Republican state AGs involved with the organization in 2016 have since left office.
But Republican AGs today continue signing onto major legal actions supporting Trump's agenda.
Iowa and 24 other Republican state AGs recently filed an amicus brief backing Trump's effort to end birthright citizenship.
Those same attorneys general fund an organization run by someone who wanted to infiltrate Trump's team and refuses to meet with anyone "associated" with the president.
The AGA pulls in millions from state AG offices while White wines and dines members at lavish overseas junkets.
CNN documented AGA trips to Rome, South Africa, Qatar, Morocco, France, and Spain funded by corporate donors.
Alaska's attorney general traveled business class to Rome in April 2025 and stayed at the five-star Waldorf Astoria, all courtesy of corporate-funded AGA travel allowances of $26,000 per trip.
Christopher Toth, former executive director of a competing AG organization, resigned in 2022 and accused the AGA of being "a vessel for lobbying and a threat to the ethics of state attorneys general."
Toth warned donors "essentially buy programming" at AGA events where companies being sued by state AGs get special access.
Trump Critics Want Republicans To Cut Ties With Group
American Accountability Foundation President Tom Jones ripped into the AGA after the infiltration emails surfaced.
Jones called the organization "a junket-fueled grant scheme run by a well-known never-Trumper" and urged the Trump administration to investigate.
"The AGA consistently flaunts how infiltrated it is by leaders who hate the president and the agenda the American people voted for," Jones said.
He recommended the administration "take a hard look" at taxpayer money flowing to an organization led by someone who plotted against Trump.
White's proposed infiltration mirrors tactics political operatives have used since the 1970s to undermine their opponents.
The first documented case appeared in The New York Times in 1971, describing a Republican volunteer who infiltrated Edmund Muskie's presidential campaign.
White runs an organization that Republican attorneys general depend on and fund with taxpayer dollars.
Those AGs work alongside Trump to defend his executive orders, fight illegal immigration, and push back against woke corporations.
They do that while paying dues to a group led by someone who thinks meeting with anyone "associated" with Trump is beneath her.
White declined to comment on the emails.
The former North Carolina official she wanted to pass off as a Trump insider said nobody from the AGA ever approached him about infiltrating the transition team.
Republican attorneys general now have to decide if they want to keep funding an organization run by someone who actively worked against Trump taking office.
Sources:
- Shawn Fleetwood, "Docs: Director Of 'Bipartisan' Attorneys General Group Proposed An 'Infiltration' Of Trump's 2016 Transition Team," The Federalist, February 10, 2026.
- "State attorneys general group accused of trading access to corporate donors," Axios, June 19, 2022.
- "Opposition research," Wikipedia, December 14, 2025.
- Kyung Lah, "US attorneys general fly free to luxury hotel in Rome thanks to group funded by corporate interests," CNN, May 15, 2025.
