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Why Trump Failed to Drain the Swamp
YouTube ^ | 4/1/21 | Patrick Rooney

Posted on 04/01/2021 5:16:34 PM PDT by rebuildus

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To: Levy78

Just how do you get good cabinet secretaries through a Senate republican majority that contains Lisa Murkowski, John McCain, Jeff Flake, Bob Corker, Susan Collins, etc.

Trump did the best he could, and had to play ball here and there.

And he sometimes used pincer movements to get people confirmed.

It’s all history now.


21 posted on 04/01/2021 5:59:45 PM PDT by cotton1706
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To: JerseyDvl
He telegraphed his punches and they were more than ready for him. The next fighter would be wise to employ stealthier tactics.

But when he does (Q), you people cry like little girls and end up attacking his 'stealth program'.

The fact is, if you sleepies had followed along with the Q op, you would understand much more about the 'stealth program' and the silent war Trump (and we) have been engaged in for years with the deep state.

Its troubling that you people only see what you want to see and is made publically available.

And think of this....

The silent war continues.


22 posted on 04/01/2021 6:00:35 PM PDT by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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To: Levy78

What does that tell ya when nearly every person around Trump would eventually try to stab him in the back, while others were trying to criminally undermine, compromise and overthrow a legitimately elected president of the United States? All this happened, it was for real.

And it tells me the swamp is as big as the Great Lakes and 4 miles deep. Nobody had any idea the size and scope of this widespread deep seated corruption prior to the Trump era. Most knew it was getting bad, but few ever imagined anything like this.


23 posted on 04/01/2021 6:01:48 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: bagster

Well said.

For the sleepies, as you dub them, they may only have to wait perhaps weeks for results.

Think of those that started what you and I know of now: they’ve had to wait years. In an organized way, it started 57 1/2 years ago - must have seemed SO daunting back then.


24 posted on 04/01/2021 6:05:39 PM PDT by C210N (You can trust government or you can understand history. But you CANNOT do both.)
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To: LuxAerterna

Don’t forget Barr and Durham...


25 posted on 04/01/2021 6:06:42 PM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit..)
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To: rebuildus

it’s pronounced RINOs...


26 posted on 04/01/2021 6:06:51 PM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there is no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. P144:1)
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To: dragnet2
, but few ever imagined anything like this.

But, a few did. And, acted on it.

27 posted on 04/01/2021 6:07:02 PM PDT by C210N (You can trust government or you can understand history. But you CANNOT do both.)
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To: Shark24

Obama destroyed this nation in 8 short years he infiltrated and corrupted EVERY department of the government EVERY DAMN ONE!! I believed for most of my life that Carter and Johnson were the worst presidents ever, there is NO ONE that could compare to the damage done by Obama!! OMG I absolutely LOATH this man!! He is NOW in charge again BANK ON IT!!!


28 posted on 04/01/2021 6:08:38 PM PDT by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
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To: dragnet2
One of the few that did know - John Connelly:

Everything Is A Rich Man's Trick (Full Movie)

29 posted on 04/01/2021 6:09:17 PM PDT by C210N (You can trust government or you can understand history. But you CANNOT do both.)
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To: C210N

BS... If in 2014 during Obama, we were told a super Patriot would be elected following Obama and that the FBI, CIA, NSA, DOJ et al, would all be involved in criminal attempts to undermine, compromise and over-throw candidate Trump and then President Trump, no one would buy it!

No sale!


30 posted on 04/01/2021 6:14:36 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: C210N

Movie? I don’t need no stinking movie.


31 posted on 04/01/2021 6:15:52 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: rebuildus

Trump failed because four years is not enough to reverse twenty eight years of Bush-Clinton-Bush-Obama.


32 posted on 04/01/2021 6:16:19 PM PDT by yuleeyahoo (The nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master and deserves one. Hamilton)
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To: rebuildus

After reading everyone’s responses, above, I think there are many contributors to this problem. Everyone’s rationale makes sense.

I heard someone on the radio the other day named Tom Rose; apparently he worked for the Trump administration in some capacity. He said that when they got there, they were treated like “Christmas help” that the whole swamp treated them as temporary employees and that the swamp did nothing but obstruct, and couldn’t wait to get rid of the Trumpers. They were shown no respect.

In retrospect, that sure makes sense. And with the help of the compliant media, they sure got their wish of ridding DC of Trump and his people.


33 posted on 04/01/2021 6:18:31 PM PDT by Joann37
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To: dragnet2

The swamp is that big and that deep because Bush/Cheney put the swamp on steroids to buy support to invade Iraq. Invading Iraq was worth any price because we were going to fix the Middle East.


34 posted on 04/01/2021 6:18:44 PM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: yuleeyahoo

The Swamp goes back to the National Defense Act of 1947, Trump had no chance of ever draining anything.

Read Col. Fletcher Prouty’s book, “The Secret Team” and you will learn how really entrenched everything is and why Eisenhower was right.


35 posted on 04/01/2021 6:20:44 PM PDT by Captain Peter Blood (https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/3804407/posts?q=1&;page)
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To: ArcadeQuarters

Bingo. Whatever swamp water he drained, he replaced with his own brand.


36 posted on 04/01/2021 6:21:33 PM PDT by joesbucks
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To: dragnet2
BS... If in 2014 during Obama, we were told a super Patriot would be elected following Obama and that the FBI, CIA, NSA, DOJ et al, would all be involved in criminal attempts to undermine, compromise and over-throw candidate Trump and then President Trump, no one would buy it!

Which illustrates the level of deep state indoctrination we were all under (with very few exceptions), myself included.

Trump had to overcome that indoctrination and wake up the people before the power of the people could be awakened to support his efforts. This was the purpose of the Q operation.

The truth of the deep state was revealed through Q, but some resisted.

Many here on FR resisted, and even pushed back against the GREAT AWAKENING effort, to the detriment of Trump, America, and the silent war.

Those people should be ashamed, but they will not be. Instead, they will get on threads like this one and complain that Trump didn't do the right thing, that he was incompetent, and they will expound on what he should or should not have done and what they, in their genius, would have done.

Its enough to piss off the Pope.


37 posted on 04/01/2021 6:22:16 PM PDT by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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To: AndyJackson

Goes past that. These so called conservatives Republicans supported Daddy Bush, who was head spook for the CIA. Then they supported his kid, an open borders globalist. Yep.

Trump had everyone against him from all these former ruling class insiders. One big con job. Trump blew them out of the water in 2016, and they were not going to allow that to happen in 2020.


38 posted on 04/01/2021 6:24:05 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: yuleeyahoo
Trump failed because four years is not enough to reverse twenty eight years of Bush-Clinton-Bush-Obama.

Think bigger.

The deep state has been entrenching itself for hundreds, maybe thousands of years, and not only in America.

This is a many headed beast.


39 posted on 04/01/2021 6:24:15 PM PDT by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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To: zeestephen

He did not have a decent Chief of Staff until final year. He did not know how to vet and put together a Cabinet. He did not use his executive power to fire people (except for James Comey, 4 months too late), unlike Clinton and Obama who cleared-out executive agencies on day one, and his campaign neglected to put together ‘binders’ of people ready to go to work on day one so he was stuck with hold-overs. He should have had Newt as Congressional liaison or Chief of Staff running with legislation in first hundred days. His Court picks, lower and upper were worked out before hand and while not perfect, the best that is available.

It is easy to be Monday Morning Quarterback though. Prayers to the best President in 30 years.


40 posted on 04/01/2021 6:24:32 PM PDT by HapaxLegamenon (You can numb you got the plate OK thanks)
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