Posted on 09/07/2018 12:41:37 AM PDT by blueplum
{snip}Trump’s advisers say he is impatient with bureaucracy and wants to see action or results immediately, which sometimes puts him in conflict with his staff or the processes they manage. Graham said such staff efforts to manage Trump are routine in politics. {snip}Rep. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.), another Trump confidant, agreed: “Listen, that happens every day on Capitol Hill. Even some within my own staff think that one idea I have is great and another one is not so great.”
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Four authors, four, and none of them saw one of the most obvious contradictions in Woodard's book, and in their reporting:
"When he was White House chief of staff, Reince Priebus had a favored strategy, according to his colleagues — tell the president that he would execute an order, or a firing — but not until “next week.” By then, Trump often would have forgotten."
Twelve paragraphs later:
“He would be like, ‘Do this, do that, slap a tariff on this country or that country, let’s blow everything up, let’s go to war,’ ” a former White House official said. “Then we would come back the next week and Trump would say, ‘What happened with X?’ And he would get mad that no one had done it. And it was a never-ending cycle.”
either Trump is forgetful and absent-minded, or he's sharp as a carpet tack and knows exactly, a week later, who he asked to do what. Can't have it both ways.
And, here's another example of the buzzkillers working against the Administration, also being a pattern we've seen lately just about every time Trump acts on foreign policy, although not always from the Justice Dept, but absolutely designed to hobble diplomacy:
"Thursday offered fresh evidence of the divergent courses set by the president and the Justice Department. In the morning, Trump tweeted praise for North Korea’s leader: “Kim Jong Un of North Korea proclaims ‘unwavering faith in President Trump.’ Thank you to Chairman Kim. We will get it done together!” Hours later, the Justice Department announced criminal charges against Park Jin Hyok for allegedly being part of a North Korean government hacking team...
If a reader knows the background behind every Trump diplomatic move, the reader understands that he has cleverly negotiated in the very classic sense of the word, and managed to achieve win-win situations each time. The authors, parroting Woodard, tries to paint each instance cited in the worst possible light, the elitists who know so much better how to run the world. Which, in the last instance, apparently includes ticking off North Korea in the middle of nuclear disarmament negotiations, endangering tens of thousands of soldiers and millions of civilians and putting the US directly in harms' way, rather than see Trump succeed.
Trump is supposed to regret that he signed the omnibus bill funding liberal/progressives’long term agenda.
Every time I read an article in the Washington Post, I find something false somewhere. I’m not saying the whole article is baloney, but if I find something that I KNOW is false, then how can I trust the parts that I don’t know (the new information) is true.
That thing about North Korea is apples and oranges. I guess because they announced charges in the Sony hack from years ago that Trump can’t work with Kim to denuclearize today? I wouldn’t be shocked if they announced these charges today to take away from the good news that Kim still wants to denuclearize that just came out.
I started about five years ago to pull out a marker and just start marking things which were ‘pure speculation’ and not proven facts. Once you get five of those markings on a 500-word article....you might as well toss the article because it’s not reliable. It’s the same way with Time and Newsweek...both have become just mouth-pieces.
It’s like dealing with CNN. They might have a two-line item which is somewhat factual. But they stand there and spend fifteen minutes on that two-line fact, with expert #1 and expert #2....it’s almost like a root-canal job and you need pain-killer to make it through that episode.
I performed this excercise with my daughter using stories from CNN, WaPo and Fox and now she can deconstruct a “news” story in a few minutes. They publish mostly opinon, cojecture based on opinion and very little factual content to support it.
On many pieces, we could not discern the five Ws.
What’s going on here is akin to push polling.
Push polling - citing fake polls, with the intent and agenda to make the actual situation go your way.
Push Trumping - citing fake actions of aides, with the intent and agenda to get actual aides to do your bidding.
Now we know why Trump didn’t get any word about Bernstein wanting an interview. Maybe he needs to hire some drill sergeants to get the WH troops into line and on point.
What a load of horse Shiite.
I’m in sales and I may push the envelope and occasionally my bosses but, I do it respectfully even though I am the top salesman in my company.
I still answer to them and it is not my intention to undermine them, Rob them if their dignity or pride.
I may get away with a few things because of my production but, I don’t push my luck and really, I am working in the best interest of everyone.
If I worked for the president I would be executing his plans period, in the same manner I currently do.
Push hard, be friendly and do more than I am asked or expected.
Except sales reports but, no one likes them ...
Agreed. I used to do polling mostly for republicans but also for occasional democrats who wanted to hire me to provide honest answers. As democrats moved further away from positions I considered acceptable, I screened better, accepted fewer contracts from them, and raised my prices. In many cases, I charged them triple rates, and they paid because it's donor money, other people's money, which they treat just like they treat tax dollars. Still, if I took the job, I delivered the best possible results I could: Ask the correct questions, communicate the answers clearly, and deliver on time. No exceptions.
Trump is being gaslighted. The NYTs wrote the op-ed. There is no high government official. They want the administration at each other’s throats & torn apart.
The “Loadstar” nonsense was an obvious ploy to point fingers at Pence.
“Except sales reports but, no one likes them ...”
Or monthly sales meetings going over the previous month. Waste of time.
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It took 4 ...FOUR....people to write this drivel!!
My company had been bought by Bernie Schwartz of Loral. A bunch of obnoxious New York Lawyers showed up and acted like, well, New York lawyers. The property, eighty acres at a prime location in Sarasota, Florida, was worth more than they paid for the company. I was working out with a county clerk. He was incensed. A bunch of New York lawyers had showed up and wanted permits for water and sewer, chop, chop. He told me they were never going to get those permits. He put the applications in his middle desk drawer and promised they’d stay there. Loral ended up dumping the land several years later for a fraction of its value.
In thirty years at large companies I can’t count the number of times lower level people sabotaged the CEO’s vision by simply not doing something. They did this even though it negatively impacted the company and may, in cases, have resulted in layoffs. They didn’t care. Their bit of small power over the big CEO was much more important to them than their coworkers jobs.
That’s the “deep state” in miniature.
Yeah, the entire mode of the Washington comPost and CNN, etc. is akin to Walter Duranty or Jayson Blair or take-your-pick of any idelogue with barrels of ink. That mode is to publish daily over and over new “insights” that amount to their political pov.
Duranty did it to purposely cover for the Soviet Union’s failures....Blair did it to advance a social agenda.
They are trying to wreck his poll numbers in an attempt to gain a Democrat congress and then move on to impeachment.
Trump is being gaslighted. The NYTs wrote the op-ed. There is no high government official. They want the administration at each other’s throats & torn apart.
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I agree. There is nothing in the article that hasn’t been said before and the Slimes can hide behind the First Amendment. Trump will never find the writer because he/she works at the Slimes.
Trump is being gaslighted. The NYTs wrote the op-ed. There is no high government official. They want the administration at each other’s throats & torn apart.
The “Loadstar” nonsense was an obvious ploy to point fingers at Pence.
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100 percent agree.
Trump should ignore it, get it moving unless someone can offer him proof other wise.
These loons on the left always thing they’re so intellectually superior. I could see Woodward with Bernstein concocting a letter like that and providing the NYT cover by telling them “this is from my source in the book” so they can pretend it isn’t fake.
Clearly it’s a fraud.
Only thing to do when your stuck with a bunch of turds is FLUSH THEM Mr. President and be very selective in hiring their replacements.
Trump appointed Supervisors should be conducting this orchestra, dragging your feet? your fired!
I still answer to them and it is not my intention to undermine them, Rob them if their dignity or pride.
Every bureaucrat in Washington DC hates Trump and voted for Hillary. Their immediate supervisors hate Trump and voted for Hillary. Their supervisors' supervisors hate Trump and voted for Hillary. It's like this all the way to the top, to President Trump's inner circle (and even here, half these people probably voted for Hillary).
Because of this, incompetence is tolerated, even encouraged. Undermine the President? That's what they're being paid to do!
The swamp is deep. Draining it was never going to be easy.
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