“Quite a few of picks, who came from outside the political world, turned down the offers, withdrew when it was clear the professional politicians were going to do everything to oppose them or they felt that they couldn’t cleanly break away from their private business dealings.”
No, I do not give PDJT a pass for populating his inner circle and cabinet with swamp creatures. Sure, plenty bowed out because they didn’t want to deal with a hostile media and Democrat party. Still, there are plenty who would sacrifice just about everything to save this country.
I guarantee you if the President chose ONLY from the pool of patriots that make up the FreeRepublic family, he would find enouth - more than enough - willing players to go to battle.
That is all he ever had to do. No more, and no less.
And as for those who claim “experience, experience! What about the political experience?!”, to that I say, take a look where that experience got him (and us) so far.
I can’t say that I disagree with you, in some way, but who is he going to pick. He can only pick from the group that wants the job. He had that one guy, from NY, that owned the Rangers or something, that he wanted to run the VA. Guy was a veteran ended up making a fortune. Bowed out citing he couldn’t distance himself from his business.
He picked Mattis. The Old Warhorse that damn near every Marine would perform oral on and he turned out to be more Deep State than anyone expected.
Same thing for Kelly, Tillerson, Sessions. He can pull from the talent pool that is available.
For FBI Director, one thing I’d love to see is him pick a police chief or someone like Sheriff Clarke. Aside from Clarke, most chiefs are politicians and serve the same masters of the Deep State. The big city police chiefs are just as liberal as anyone. And I doubt he’d get some old school law and order Sheriff to make it out of committee. Think about it ... the President meets and talks with some chief and is blown away... fires Wray and nominates the new guy .... first question from Feinstien ...Chief, how large is your department? Senator I’m the chief of police of a 1000 person department. Chief, do you have any experience running a 16000 person agency of the federal government? No mam....NEXT!!!
And all the people in the upper echelons of the government are holdovers from Bush 1, clinton, Bush 2 and the last guy in the White House. Damn near all of them as incompetent and malicious as the next, but they’re there.
I’d love to see him ask someone like Col West to head DHS but he’ll be crucified in a Senate hearing over getting rough with an iraqi.
He had two picks for the Federal Reserve that didn’t make it a week or two before they backed out citing family concerns.
The other side is playing for keeps. This other night, showing up at McConnell’s house, threatening and Twitter taking down HIS account for showing footage of the protesters. Do you think those protesters just happened to show up there? Someone sent them. Someone paid them.