Posted on 03/05/2017 8:33:35 AM PST by NCjim
A former party chairman is probably better suited for this particular role than almost anyone else.
There may be other reasons why Priebus isn't the right guy for the job, but this isn't one of them. His work in 2016 -- when the RNC managed to successfully straddle a fine line between a presidential candidate who was running as an outsider and candidates in close swing-state Senate races who had to keep a distance from Trump -- may go down as one of the greatest political juggling acts of modern times.
no he wouldn’t. He’s about money too. Giuliani would have.
The issue isn't necessarily whether or not Sessions is going to be an actual material witness in a case, but whether an extensive, far reaching evidence-gathering operation is going to end up collecting evidence that doesn't implicate him but compromises him in terms of legal ethics.
This isn't about the Russians anymore -- and it never really was. This is about potential criminality involving the Obama administration's surveillance of the Trump campaign. If the Obama administration was eavesdropping on Trump's phone and e-mail communications and Sessions already knows that he was making phone calls and exchanging e-mails that were intercepted on the Trump end, then Sessions can't possible serve in a prosecutorial role here. Before Sessions even made his recusal announcement on Thursday he probably had a pretty good idea about the extent of his communications that were intercepted.
Priebus and Ryan and the GOPe are not Trump’s friends. They may have somehow thought they could manage him and unquestionably his calling card would have been based on getting Congress to pass Trump’s agenda, due to his relationship with Ryan. But that’s not happened—they aren’t even talking about tax cuts now until the 2018 budget and all of Trump’s appointees have been slow-walked in the Senate, too.
Priebus has filled the place with GOPe operatives, like the director of communications—who has been a business partner of Karl Rove’s!
EXACTLY! And while we’re at it, the firing of Gen. Flynn was a grave mistake. The President is learning fast, hopefully.
I also heard, by the way, that Jared and Ivanka also shared a piece of his wrath. This staff had better be ready to fight for America, or “good-bye”.
The GOPe would have preferred to deal with George W. Bush Jr. -- a.k.a. Hillary Clinton.
If Trump was angry at those two, I'm sure it had nothing to do with politics. Maybe one of the young kids crapped on the floor of the Oval Office, and Kellyanne Conway stepped in it before she knelt on the couch for that photo a few days ago.
How powerful do you think that Preibus is? Enough voters wanted Trump. End of story. Weasels like Preibus have no principles aside from their own advancement, so he glommed on to Trump.
No. Trump demands excellence, and these two are liberal conciliators, NOT what was needed at the time of the Sessions fake news fiasco.
He reportedly redirected RNC resources in critical districts to local candidates and of course had threatened to pull back from RNC support when the going got tough.
I’m not going to convince you that he’s a dangerous weasel—but he is.
The conventional wisdom was that Clinton was going to clean Trump's clock because the Clinton campaign had a much more extensive and powerful ground game than the Trump campaign. It was true that the Trump campaign's ground game was pitiful at best, but what nobody took into account was that in all of those swing states the Republican National Committee took over the Trump campaign operations and used their own staff and resources to get the job done. That was all Priebus' doing -- which is why I believe he was the first person other than a family member that Trump called to the stage when he was making his acceptance speech on Election Night.
If this is true, then they should both be fired.
If they're still employed in the White House on Monday, then either Trump is a moron or this whole story is a pile of nonsense.
P.S. -- I've never trusted either one of them in terms of their politics, but that simply means I've assumed all along that neither one of them was really working in a responsible position with high expectations.
Boob bait sourcing. No thanks.
I didn’t state that I thought that Preibus wanted Trump to lose. Many other GOP’ers did, incl. Mitch and Paul.
Trump needs to recess appoint Rudy as the Deputy AG and have him focus on nothing but taking down Obama, Hillary, Soros and all other co-conspirators like Schumer, Pelosi, McCain, and so on.
You actually believe Trump would behave that way?
It doesn;t seem logical. The recusal seems to be a tactic that is sticking needles in the Democrats.
What it did was put it to the Dems to open their empty box for all to see the nothing that it contains. Yo notice that the Obamanite that would now be in charge of the “investigation” is mostly making himself scarce.
From what I read (forgot where) Session’s somewhat bragged that the POTUS didn’t want him to recuse himself but he felt he needed to.
Sounds legit to me. I guess we shall see!
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