I worked as a Civil Servant with a number of Political Appointees. I worked in an office that was organizationally attached to the office of the Secretary of Veterans Affairs. I worked for many of this Department's leaders, before it was a Cabinet Department and George H.W. Bush's Secretary of Veterans Affairs, and the person who would become George W. Bush's Secretary of Veterans Affairs. Over these years I worked for these Republican Political Appointees very closely. I traveled with them when they were in my Region, which was often. I got to know them quite well. They trusted me to do my job, which was to help them do their job as well as was possible. I knew, going in, that no one is perfect. I knew they would err. Part of my job was to figure out how to explain their errors, which were relatively minor, in ways that kept them from becomming major or politicized. To this day, there are things that I witnessed on the job that I have not told to another living soul. That level of loyalty was not an element of my job description.
In fact, one such error would have ended the career of one of these guys because he had a relationship with someone who did some of the absolute worst things I can think of on the job. They met as a matter of their employment and entered into a close personal relationship. She did the things she did that got her fired, without his knowledge. She called me and threatened to "blow the whistle," on him. I convinced her to let her lawyers defend her to their best abilities, and let go of everything else. All of that took several weeks to play out. Would I have done any of this, if I was as biased as you describe me to be?
I am a big supporter of Israel. This has opened me to criticism from people more to the left than me. I am apalled that the president is dragging the prime minister into his personal, petty political attacks at a time when Netanyahu is fighting for his political life. Because he did so publicly, Netanyahu had to act, which may have cost him support in the upcoming election. That is what a lack of loyalty on one side and exemplary loyalty by the other looks like, in case you wondered.