It was his first rodeo in politics. His advisers should have been better at communicating that to him. Unfortunately most of them were also deep staters.
Verify BEFORE trust should have been the mantra.
It was his first rodeo in politics. His advisers should have been better at communicating that to him. Unfortunately most of them were also deep staters.
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I think this is hitting the nail on the head. I heard an explanation, within his first year, I think, that he was NOT a politician and, as most politicians do, he did not have a rolodex of names he could call on to fill the many positions that needed filling. Trump relied on folks like Reince (for starters) & others who did have a rolodex, to make suggestions. Trump had a LOT on his plate ... just imagine coming in to the WH with businessman experience (why he has survived & the country is doing well) but no political/government experience (why it’s been a bumpy, dangerous 3 years). Also, the level of pure venomous, unanimous hatred by the Dems as a party & those holding office (Congress) is something I don’t think many, if any (maybe Lincoln) Presidents have faced before.
Now that impeachment is temporarily (they’ll try it again) off his back, he has some freedom & he needs to do what he can ... ruthless needs to be the modus operandi. If he’s re-elected & the R’s hold either the Senate or can take back the House, then look out ... I think there will be some Aegean Stables level cleanout. If we lose both the House & Senate, Trump will be kicked out of office for sure.
Good explanation and seems plausable and reasonable.
“His advisers should have been better at communicating that to him. Unfortunately most of them were also deep staters.”
I said from the start President Trump should hire Freepers for all positions. There are many skilled people here who would have been just as capable job-wise as those traitors but would have been loyal to the President.
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
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.
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.
——Why did he need to wait 3 years?——
Because it didn’t matter.
He had his own advisers and those fired one were just ignored in the meantime
It was not a rodeo matter, it was an executive matter. President Trump knows more about hiring and firing and keeping advisers close than any recent president. The only President even close was General Dwight Eisenhower
>>It was his first rodeo in politics. His advisers should have been better at communicating that to him. Unfortunately most of them were also deep staters.
This MAY have worked as an excuse by the time he took office or, at worst, 6 months into his term, but by the time he was replacing the staff he hired himself (Spicer and others), he couldn’t be bothered to look into replacing these people and many more like them?
Sorry, you can make all the excuses for him you want, but this one falls squarely on Trump. He has no one to blame but himself and should have figured all this out in the Spring of 2017. Hundreds of thousands of us were screaming for this then and since.
That and to eliminate federal agencies which he hasn’t done.