Posted on 02/10/2020 7:39:24 AM PST by caww
Why did he wait 3 years? Because Paul Ryan and the house held the constant threat of impeachment over him if he went in with wholesale firings. And in the beginning of the administration the Senate obstructed his appointments. Remember Mitchell refusing to let the Senate go into recess deliberately to prevent Trump from making recess appointments?
Trump isn’t stupid. He knew exactly The narrow swimlane the Republican Party allowed him to be in and did the best he could
“Everyone’s an expert and not one would qualify as a pimple on a President’s ass.”
I knew that many commenters were far smarter than Trump, but I was surprised that it’s almost 100%.
He did indeed have a Rolodex of names he could have called. But the unprecedented Democrat terrorism made almost all of them refuse to get involved in the administration. The attacks in restaurants, the guaranteed over the top colonoscopy about their life, instant crimibal investigations into who they were.
Democrat extremism supported by Republicans who expected him to be proven as a Russian spy made it impossible for him to get the staff he wanted. There is no telling the damage Paul Ryan and Mitchell did to the country while they shrunk back from the Democrat lie.
My take is Trump is a businessman, thinks like a CEO. When they take a company over they don’t fire all the rank and file, they just make the big changes up top and expect the rest of the employees to fall in line and buy into the new direction.
Trump expected that in government as well, I believe. He didn’t expect there to be outright insubordination.
Trump scores big on mole hunting bags 70 in first round.
(2) Mike Flynn was targeted for destruction from Day 1, and Trump was boxed in by Senate GOP traitors into hiring Deep State scumbag McMaster, and could not lay a finger on the NSC.
From my distant view, I’ve always had respect for Priebus. He allowed the GOP nomination to play out in a fair way. I imagine the GOP establishment is very similar to the Democrat establishment, but had he behaved like Clinton crony Wasserman-Schultz, he would have rigged the process. Democrats are still today suffering from those decisions made in 2016.
Trump probably felt he could trust Priebus, and perhaps he could, but the corruption and opposition with the Intelligence Community, FBI, etc.. probably was beyond anyone’s comprehension in those early days, so I agree with you on point #2.
Thank you for posting that.
Good for Trump... dump the turncoats...
Scaramucci
Wasn’t he compliments of Ivanka and Jared?
40 second mark: https://youtu.be/TW3Gh5qpceM
In a previous life, I scored in the top 1% in a CIA exam and, years later, in a State Department exam and was invited to DC for the full interview thing.
I can't say anything about the CIA exam because I signed a confidentiality statement. But the State Department interview didn't require it.
I can say that the interview day was not particularly rigorous and we had ample time to interact with other examinees and review the resumes of the examiners. In general, the examiners selected candidates which were like them (same colleges, viewpoints and background in media, government bureaucracy or the Peace Corps) and rejected those which were not (different colleges, viewpoints and background in the military or actual business). I suspect the CIA was somewhat similar but, of course, can't prove it because I didn't have access to the same information as in the State Department interviews.
Things would probably work better if all new government hires were confined to people who had experience outside of government with a military exception favoring those who had worked in frontline situations over those joining the military to get government work.
Yes, Trump has no qualms about firing people, so I am certain he must have felt it was politically precarious to do so.
Americans think they elect their leaders. They elect “some.” But their true leaders are permanent bureaucrats who have sat in Washington DC for their entire lives.
Fortunately, Trump is and was smart enough to know that he needed Mitch McConnell on his side to get Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh in place, as well as many other conservative judges throughout the courts. Trump plays to win in the end.
Big Bump! About Time.
I don’t blame him one bit.
Should have happened his first month in office.
Misunderstood what you wrote. Some how I mentally added an “ended” to your dependent clause. Sorry.
Not a whiff of scandal. /s
there's no way we need so many over paid government “workers” in DC either.....the government needs to be downsized and decentralized...
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