Posted on 01/14/2017 5:00:58 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Donald Trump has embarked on an unprecedented purge of government officials appointed by President Barack Obama in a bid to wipe the slate clean ahead of his inauguration.
Scores of presidential appointees, from ambassadors in far flung capitols to two nuclear security chiefs to the head of Washington's National Guard, will be leaving their posts on Friday at noon, having received unexpected orders to do so, just as Trump takes office as one of the most unpopular and scandal-ridden incoming presidents in history.
While his recent predecessors were swept toward inauguration day on a tide of goodwill, Mr Trump has jolted from scandal to intrigue and back again, lashing out at his critics on Twitter and rarely appearing in public.
Just 44 per cent of Americans approve of how he has handled his transition to the presidency, compared to 83 per cent for Barack Obama, 61 per cent for George W Bush and 68 per cent for Bill Clinton, according to Gallup.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
trump need to purge all obama ppl in the justice department
Good grief where does these “newspapers” find these “journOlists”?
Articles nowadays are nothing more than a few facts swamped with political bias. Trump has been treated like crap. He’s appointed competent people, not “Affirmative Action” types who don’t know squat. Holder? The NASA clown (”outreach to Muslims”) Jeh Baby?
GMAFB
GALLUP???!? You mean the guys who didn't get within 10 points of the end results of the election???!?
Fake news media motto:
It is true because we print it.
I hope Trump does the same, fire every DOJ attorney and employee as legally possible. The next step is to open a DOJ office in the far northeastern corner of Montana (the empty flat corner) and transfer to there every single DOJ employee that was hired during the Obama administration.
THis is why I don’t believe what they say about Putin.
Trump takes office as one of the most unpopular and scandal-ridden incoming presidents in history.puke fest
“Right turn..clyde.”
Clyde reminds me of someone.....sort of familiar.
LOL
They ALL fire all the US attorneys except for dumbass Bush.
That’s why I so badly want to see him pick a target, like CNN, and kill it dead, cut it out, no access, no interviews. Everybody gets information except CNN - they have to report off what the others report. See how long they last.
Fake News, Inc. To be ridiculed and scorned.
It’s fake news.
The Progressives project too much and we’re on to them. We now know they coined the term to disparage conservative sources and hide their misdeeds, but that’s not working anymore. It’s simply been turned back on them and ruining themselves.
When a democrat reaches across the aisle, he has a hammer in his hand.
When a republican reaches across the aisle, it is usually because he wants to be bitch-slapped - and the democrats oblige.
Don’t think Trump comes from THAT school of business!
London Telegraph = Fake News?
David Lawler and your rag continue your history-revising liberal hacking
no credibility
I hope Trump makes the personnel cuts real deep and wide.
99.95% of Trump voters approve of cleaning house.
For snowflake, non-believers..F em.
https://twitter.com/davidlawler10?lang=en
It is one anti-Trump screed after another. He posts pictures of that lying racist ("Tea Party folks called me N_gger and spat on me!") John Lewis and Bath House Barry hugging each other, and attacks Trump for standing up to Lewis. He is ticked Trump called out CNN for trying to destroy him. And on, and on, and on.
Did they get this tripe from the Asspress?
George H. W. Bush purged the Reagan conservatives from his bureaucracies.
This is not unprecedented.
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