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 ...
Nope. It isn’t smart to have people in high places whose loyalty lies elsewhere.
Well another way of looking at this is that Trump is fulfilling his promise to the voters that he would drain the swamp! Good grief. Trump told everyone over and over again that he was going to drain the swamp and yet the corrupt DNC media are now all feigning shock and putting out fake news that this purges is now somehow a complete surprise.
Absolutely fake news by a corrupt journ-o-list.
Stopped reading right there.
Would that be Moochie?
Plentywood, MT is a great place to live. Just 15 miles from the Canadian border.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plentywood,_Montana
I’ve seen nothing from anything non hyper partisan to suggest that.
You forget we’ve allied with the Soviets on a common cause in the past. In fact the Soviets got the shit end of the stick in some ways.
Putin represents a power to be reckoned with and we need to play catch up first before we can play hardball. Putin probably has every secret document of importance sent in the last 8 years. We are in big trouble.
We’ll be seeing the true state of the Union in the next year and we are far worse of than you realize.
Glad I was one of the 17%!
What fn scandal?
And how do you know this was Putin’s preferred outcome?
There were only two viable candidates and Hillary was so far out of the question for so many reasoms this is all we had left.
Earlier they were criticizing him for his "victory lap" public appearances. Liberals always want it both ways.
“Their entire bureaucracy is fighting a Republican President from day 1.”
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Amen! That is exactly what doomed republican Gov. Ernie Fletcher a few years back here in Kentucky. I suggested through email to current republican Gov. Matt Bevin that he do exactly what you suggest. I hope he has and I hope Trump does the same at the federal level.
What a crock of horse hockey! Brits, don’t you believe it! The observer is not fit to wrap up garbage.
I mean the Telegraph, not the Observer.
How about Scobey, MT? Face it, to someone from the Washington DC area it would be back of beyond! In the middle of January it would be punishing.
And the national guard guy was asked to stay through the inauguration but he declined, and he’s going around lying about it.
This headline needs a barf alert!
men and check yer ass
Trump will have my goodwill. As for Obama, I never watched his inauguration and I was deeply worried about his Marxism. Nothing has changed except that PBO is leaving the WH on Friday. Halleluia.
Apparently the goodwill of the deplorable class is not counted.
“Would that be Moochie?”
and Lewis
This article is full of so much fake news. They intertwine them together to build an alternate reality. “Scandal ridden”? Cmon.
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