Great President but he did a terrible job vetting those around him. It appears he was completely surrounded by traitors and spies.
His one mistake was trusting Establishment Republicans.......................
In Trump’s defense: he was new to politics...he was new to Washington...he was new to government.
Trump wad coming from a business prospective. When you bring someone in, they are fighting with you to make the business a success. In government, that is not the case. You can only trust a few. Almost everyone has their own agenda and will backstab you. I have seen that with my own eyes even on the local level.. I am sure anyone who has worked in both sectors can agree.
It seems almost impossible to have qualified people who aren’t DS in DC.
This is such an unfair, unwarranted claim by too many supposed conservatives here. (1) The FBI is supposed to do background checks on administration appointees. (2) If there is nothing in the background check that warrants concern, all you have left to go on is the person's claims about their points of view. (3) If the person lies to you about what's in their heart and mind, how can you possibly know the hidden truth about them?
Trump or any President is not capable of personally vetting all his appointments. I don’t really know how that could be done. Maybe they could hire private investigators to do something like what’s done for top secret clearances, where they question people who have known them over the years. Maybe the next conservative President, if there is one, will actually have to do that.
The chicanery and duplicity now being revealed would have been unimaginable under Ronald Reagan, but then, it was a time of more honorable men and women. Bush 41 and Bush 43 knowingly and almost openly tolerated this sort of urban guerrilla warfare within their own administrations, and Bill Clinton raised it to an art from, using these talents to his own advantage. Likewise with the “humble” Bronco Bama, who cultivated this kind of dissent and encouraged it at every turn, setting Americans against each other.
The ill effects of this growth of the counter-culture anti-American attitudes came to full blossom during the Trump Administration, and manifested as the “Trump Derangement Syndrome”, spilling into the streets and supposedly “neutral” academic circles. When it came time to choose his personal Cabinet, the pool was already badly contaminated with these “sleeper” agents of dissent and disarray, and only after they once had gotten into positions of power within the Administration, were they revealed for the charlatan characters they became. Nothing benign about it at all.
Do you not understand that every president relies on others to do this :vetting: .... he relies on the recommendations and counsel of others? He is not head of a damn HR department.
It amazes me that at every turn the scope and depth of the swamp reveals itself --- proudly --- and the target of their evil is held to account.
Though he didn’t know who they were exactly, Ben Franklin knew his staff at Versailles included spies and traitors. Somehow he kept his calm at all times and accomplished his goals with the French in spite of them. Trump may have believed he could do the same.
I don't know of any other President of our time who could have withstood the politics of personal destruction the insubordination of members of his own cabinet and two bogus impeachment attempts and not be distracted from the job at hand as POTUS.
China did not own Trump. Sad to say, the same cannot be said for many of our dirtbag politicians whether Democrat or Republican - including the current occupier of the Oval Office.
Trump made the mistake of assuming that fellow members of his own party would at least be loyal and trustworthy - not necessarily because they "liked" him - but because they loved our country whose citizens freely ELECTED Trump.
If his business history is any indicator, Donald Trump seems to be a man who learns from his mistakes and is capable of taking effective corrective action.....a man who never gives up.