FBI? DOJ?
I’d start with whistleblowers. They’ve been brave and unselfish enough to be credible with me, anyway.
Stop worrying about it.
Trump is a master at staff section. It’s his strong suit. He’ll pick smart, loyal people. They’ll be beautiful picks. All winners. The greatest staffing in history.
Just trust Trump.
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My choice is Ted Cruz for AG.
The real question is will Republicans retake the Senate and control the confirmation process? Will McConnell be more assertive in supporting President Trump's nominees, or will McConnell and Lindsey Graham undermine Trump's picks and insist on their own (like last time)?
I had previously suggested Cruz for AG until 2026. In 2026, I suggested Cruz run for governor of Texas when Abbott is term-limited out, and then Ron DeSantis (who is former JAG) be appointed to replace Cruz at AG when DeSantis' term expires in Florida.
Now I wonder if DeSantis should give up his last two years in Florida and let Trump appoint him to run the FBI under Cruz. Then, in 2026 Trump can nominate DeSantis as AG. Or, both stay in their respective jobs throughout. DeSantis can run in 2028 from the AG or FBI Director incumbency.
I don't think anyone in the House should be nominated because the margins are too thin to support it. We also need control of the purse strings.
3) How does he prevent leaks?
He can't. He will just have to live with it, but be smarter about what he says about it to the press. No more "interviews" with people like Bob Woodward, who are really looking for ammunition to attack him.
4) Who does he appoint VP who will carry on his agenda in the event deep state goes Kennedy on Trump?
I once suggested Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas. Abbott is strong on the border, is handicapped, and has a strong Lt. Governor to finish his term in 2005. The problem is that he doesn't need Texas to win.
-PJ
1. Trump will not select his running mate. The GOP leadership will do that, as it did in 2016.
2. Dozens of cabinet-level and other senior executive branch appointees require Senate confirmation. Trump won’t be selecting those people, either.
1) Lie detectors for all applicants. Take no one recommended by anyone in Washington DC. Look to the states for your pool of candidates.
2) NONE. He can’t count on Congressional Republicans for anything.
3) Cut the heads off those who leak and mount them on a pike. Figuratively speaking. Find them, arrest them and prosecute them to the fullest extent of the law. Trust no one.
4) Ken Paxton.
If you truly think that Trump will do anything different in the second term, then he did in the first, you’re sadly mistaken. He may pick some good people, but he’ll turn them against him,and then disloyal diss them.
1 and 3 are problems any (R) president will face. 2 is less of a concern to me since I don’t want an (R) president in lockstep with senate RINO’s. No real view on 4 since I’m a reformed former JFK conspiracy theorist.
All good questions, but I wouldn’t spend much time on it. Dems have the steal down. We will have a permanent Dem majority come the election in 24 and the full disassembly of America starts on the day whatever puppet the dems installed takes office.
If not Trump, it will be Nikky Haley, who will have NO PROBLEM finding Deep State traitors to fill her administration, and the Brahmin takeover of America (they already run Silicon Valley) will be complete.
As best as I can see, your problem is not with Trump, but with the party. Any time a POTUS steps into the harness, he, and some day she, faces this problem. Our representatives that go to those halls are in it for themselves and the people that put them there, the voters. So you’ve got at least a couple of hundred different needs in the purse strings and bills. And with the element of levels of commitment in the party it would be almost impossible to get a clean one way or another. And of course the POTUS has his idea of his commitment.
To be honest I feel one of the reasons Trump was so successful in his first term was that he was not part of the politicial scene so he had no real threats from the swamp. And what they did go after was outside of the political arena. Many positions held under the POTUS’s control are civilian slots. So why not put civilians in them rather than the, so call, experts that are provided to him.
I laughed at a part of the movie Dave when he brought his personal accountant into the white house to correct a need for money and the accountant recommended the erasing of programs that didn’t make sense or were not needed. I’m not laughing anymore. Sooo, why not fill the positions he can with people he trusts from his knowledge and not the people provided by those that have an agenda? A perfect place to start would be the DOJ and/or NSA. Then it would become apparent that skit rolls down hill or laterally. If they want to keep their jobs, then they have to work with people that actually have a position and want to work it. But that is why you hire the POTUS to make those decisions. Trump has been successful by doing exactly this process. I would like to see him make us successful.
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I’m glad you still have faith in voting.
All of the Executive Branch appointments which are relevant to your concerns require Senate confirmation.
The bottom line is that the GOP had no intention of allowing Trump to exercise the powers of the Presidency in 2017 and nothing has changed - if anything, matters are worse.
Start with Giuliani as AG and order him to clean house. As a victim of the American gestapo, he would be only too willing to get after it. Kari Lake would make a great VP, another victim of the swamp. Gen Michael Flynn as SecDef, another victim ready to raise hell. Go for it.
He would first need a dependable group of US attorneys and investigators.
Then he would probably need to find a clean group of US Marshalls to go in and arrest officials at:
DOJ
FBI
CIA
Present and former members of Congress and the Senate,
The DC circuit judges
Fani Willis, Raffensperger et alia in GA
Adams, James, Energon in NY
Anyone who participated in the whole "Russia collusion," phony impeachments and false prosecutions brought against him.
Last, to make sure he can do this he first needs to clear out DOD: starting with the Joint Chiefs working his down through the ranks, sacking all the opportunists, liars and regime butt kissers.
If he wants to go big he starts by cleaning the military, arresting the others and putting them before military tribunals for treason and having them all shot.
Marjory Taylor Green for Vice President . . . imo.
Same applies to Meatball.....
There is some right here in FR who could excel in his administration.
FWIW, he was a tight end for the University of Iowa and played in the 1991 Rose Bowl
For this reason, Trump needs to triage the most important elements- the problem is that just about the whole government is infected-and the critical departments of Justice, Treasury and Defense are the ones requiring the most attention. And then there's the State Department- which has always been a weak link for conservative philosophy, but is now run by war-mongering NeoCons.
The real dilemma is that the people needed to reform those departments probably could not get past Senate confirmation. If Trump wins in '24, the GOP goes into full war mode, McConnell in the lead. Even if Trump doesn't break though the logjam, it's still worth it, and critical for the long-term health of the country.
He can’t do much of anything but hold the presidency and make sure another ballbuster will be elected. This is a generational fight. The democrats have been flooding the departments and bureaucracy with marxist tyrants for 100 years. It’s going to take just as long to clean it out, if possible, or a revolution to pull them out and destroy every unconstitutional bureaucratic office and bureaucrat. WHICH, in my view, is why the immigration issue is the biggest problem. Nothing else matters when the democrats are importing a literal army of American hating violent third world to breed, vote, and fight.