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 ...
Unprecedented? Really? Good grief.
Political appointees work for the President who is the current President.
When the President who appointed them leaves office, they likewise leave unless specifically asked to stay by the incoming President.
Nothing sinister about the process. Just common sense.
To those of us in the conservative side of politics get accustomed to a continuing barrage of propaganda from the leftist media.
The leftist media will create massive propaganda against Trump. By comparison recall the “non-reporting” of valid negative news about Obama by the leftist media.
Perhaps there is a historian among the FR who could comment on whether the media has ever been so corrupt.
Obama cleaned house when he usurped the Presidency.
The only idiot who kept the previous President’s people was W.
Burn it down!
Don't you remember all that Barack the Magic Negro chit, and the grade school kids singing Barack obama, mmmm, mmmm, mmmm!
Didn't take long to get over it, but it was pretty sickening at the start.
Who, in power, gives these smarmy LITTLE BOYS a by-line?
Are there ANY adults left in American?
“Trump takes office as one of the most unpopular and scandal-ridden incoming presidents in history. “
LOL!!
>>They lie!<<
Fake news.
On a roll finding all the anti trump articles today, huh?
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Well, he hasn’t done it yet, but it’s what he needs to do. It’s the smart thing.
“Oh please. What horseshit. The only scandals are entirely media created.”
Mr. Goebbles said it best. If one repeats the lie often enough, and it’s big enough, it becomes the truth.
(The scumbags in the media will never stop it.)
IMHO
This is total BS.....I worked for the Federal Government for 36 years and every time the administration changes, all political appointees are gone at noon the day of the swearing in of the new President......the media wonders why they have no audience anymore? Just keep with the lying!
The left just doesn’t get it. The narratives they’re pushing, are what drove the Democrat party into decline, and what prompted Americans to elect Donald Trump in the first place.
The longer they keep this up, the more people will be driven into Trump’s camp.
Scandal ridden? What scandals have occurred during the transition?
Scandal ridden and he hasn’t even been sworn in yet.
He demonstrates that daily.
...Trump takes office as one of the most unpopular and scandal-ridden incoming presidents in history....
Created firmly in the mentally ill minds of losing Democrats.
Lies, innuendo, and deceit directed at Americans.
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