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To: Starboard
Its ironic that a person so well known for saying “you’re fired” is so reluctant to do that as president. Just saying.

It sure is.

I might add that staffing has been an unusually big problem for Trump. Obama recycled Clinton apparatchiks. Bush... well he didn't do much.

Clinton is the only one I can remember who came in with his own nearly complete crew from Arkansas. No one had ever heard of many of the people he appointed to power positions. But, a lot of them stuck around for a generation.

Trump not only didn't bring a lot of people with him (Javanka don't/doesn't count), he also inherited had an amazingly recalcitrant Deep State.

I think he made a number of bad picks, but his business and personal judgement may have been of limited usefulness in political selection. He may have had to rely on other people. So Rosenstein gave us Meuller; Christie (a purported conservative) gave us Christopher Wray, who I get a very bad swamp-vibe from.

History will have a field day looking back on this through competing hagiographies.

30 posted on 02/13/2019 12:39:19 PM PST by Pearls Before Swine ( "It's always a party when you're eating the seed corn.")
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To: Pearls Before Swine

Trump was an outsider so its understandable that he didn’t have a large army of experienced people he could bring in to help him run the government. Staffing has certainly been a challenge for him.

And the Democrats compounded that problem by going after everyone who supported Trump. By now there are probably not many people who are willing to work in the administration and put themselves and their families on the firing line.

To Democrats politics is blood sport. Too bad the Republicans are incapable of seeing that reality.


38 posted on 02/14/2019 10:53:46 AM PST by Starboard
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