[nhbob1]

Fire him immediately. An empty position would be far more preferable than one occupied by an enemy.

[9YearLurker]

Should have had the hook months ago.

But Trump erred in his early hiring strategy. I thought he was going to start a shakeup last week? By listening to Jivanka, he has put so many GOPe and Democrat heads in his administration that need to roll that it is embarrassing.

But better to have done with it and move on than to limp along as is.

[Teacher317]

I don't mind a critic. Having an administration of pure sycophants would be dangerous and short-sighted. I want several excellent minds giving our President excellent advice from several perspectives, and hopefully the best choices will be made from among them. I don't want a King Donald ruling over a bunch of empty-headed drones.

But "Trump-critic" can also be a euphemism for an inflexible and disobedient obstacle to implementing policy ideas that have survived the crucible of inspection and debate from those excellent advisors, and preventing us from moving forward and away from the Obama-debacles.

[Colonel Kangaroo]

By hook or by crook, the deep state aims to have their way.

[grania]

It's way past time that these positions were filled. I don't understand why President Trump didn't have people lined up to appoint to positions. He had two months between election and inauguration.

I'm 100% with President Trump. It does seem the leaking has stopped, so maybe they finally cleaned out the swampthings from the WH inner circle. But key Ambassadorships and State Department positions? Obama's traitors have to be removed, yesterday.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

MAGA can’t happen unless ths swamp is drained.

[HarleyLady27]

Hook, a former Bush administration official, served as a foreign policy adviser for Mitt Romney’s 2012 presidential campaign and co-founded the John Hay Initiative. This is a neoconservative group that organized a letter of over 100 Republican foreign policy experts that refused to back Trump’s foreign policy. Hook himself didn't’t sign the letter.
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What the HECK is going on here???

Sounds like we need to take up the blow horns and get our voices heard!!!

A never trumper, and in with Rex...Rex I had better thoughts of you, what are you doing? YOUR suppose to cover President Trump's back, like all of us, get your brain cleared and FIRE THIS JERK!!!

Come on people...we need to get this out in the open, NO TO HOOK!!!

[shalom aleichem]

Rinse Prebus is a complete moron - this was HIS job to clean house.

[Whenifhow]

Also...

Yet Another Trump Critic Becomes A Senior State Department Official
http://dailycaller.com/2017/06/05/yet-another-trump-critic-becomes-a-senior-state-department-official/
A spokesman for Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was no fan of Donald Trump during the presidential primary.
R.C. Hammond is senior adviser for public affairs at the Department of State and previously worked as a press secretary for Newt Gingrich’s 2012 presidential campaign.

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Hammond is the second key State Department official with a known anti-Trump past. Brian Hook, the director of policy planning, told Politico in 2016, “Even if you say you support him as the nominee, you go down the list of [Trump’s] positions and you see you disagree on every one.”
Negative comments about Trump reportedly kept Elliot Abrams from becoming deputy secretary of state. Hammond did not respond to an inquiry asking whether he still feels the same way about Trump. His Twitter feed is now supportive of the president.