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What Would a Donald Trump Presidency Be Like?
BBC News ^ | 1 hour ago | Anthony Zurcher

Posted on 01/31/2016 9:29:42 PM PST by drewh

If Donald Trump were to win in November, he would be the first man to take the White House without having previously held public office or served at a high level in the military. Because his election would be without precedent, it's difficult to predict what a Trump administration would look like.

He has offered some hints, however.

He's suggested that Congressman Trey Gowdy, head of the committee investigating the 2012 Benghazi consulate attack, could be his attorney general. (That was before Mr Gowdy endorsed Florida Senator Marco Rubio, however.) He's mentioned that 2012 Republican vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin would have a place in his presidential cabinet and billionaire financier Carl Icahn is a possible treasury secretary. He's also said he might tap corporate former chief Jack Welsh and investor Warren Buffett as economic advisers.

Mr Trump has generated political shockwaves with his at-times bellicose campaign style and controversial proposals on US border security and a temporary halt on the entry of all Muslims into the US, but he's started offering a more measured, conciliatory tone.

"When I'm president, I'm a different person," he said recently. "When you are running the country, it's a different dialogue that goes. And we can do that easily."

That's been music to the ears of some Republican insiders, who have suggested that a Trump administration may be open to overtures from the party establishment he has often spurned.

Top priorities: Halting illegal immigration, improving border security, policing trade with China.

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...


TOPICS: Editorial; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: 2016election; trump
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I think he would surround himself with the best people possible...and fire them when need be. These other guys always brought their flunkies from Georgia..Arkansas..Chicago..etc


21 posted on 01/31/2016 10:08:59 PM PST by basalt
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To: drewh

I hope not, but have concerns it would be just like California with the Governator, just of course it would be the Trumpinator instead.


22 posted on 01/31/2016 10:13:36 PM PST by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: TigerClaws

All the Europeans celebrated when Zero won. Then they got to see what a post-American world looks like: Total chaos in the Middle East, invasion of ‘refugees’, Ukraine invasion, nuclear Iran, and a much more dangerous world.


The irony is not lost on everyone.... Given a choice there is a point in time where a democracy will vote for self-destruction putting selfish interests ahead of their country. See Greece.


23 posted on 01/31/2016 10:16:14 PM PST by volunbeer
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To: drewh

I wonder how in the heck he can put all his holdings in a blind trust and they truly are blind. and how he’s not be tempted to touch them.


24 posted on 01/31/2016 10:18:56 PM PST by stylin19a
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To: nickcarraway
He's not going to do that, nick.

Though you can't stand him, even YOU will be happy with President Trump.

25 posted on 01/31/2016 10:19:31 PM PST by nopardons
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To: stylin19a
Because he says that being the president will be the ONLY job he is going to concentrate on.

His three eldest kids will run all of the companies and he trusts them.

26 posted on 01/31/2016 10:20:55 PM PST by nopardons
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To: RC one
I think the problem with people that have made carreers of government service is that they aren't intimately familiar with the consequences of poor decisions, poor judgments, poor outcomes, and busted budgets. Failure is an option in government. Coming in over budget is an option in the government. In the private sector, things are run differently-better. I am hoping that Trump brings that mentality to the White House because it has been absent for some time now.

Agreed. That is why I want an executive in the executive office.
27 posted on 01/31/2016 10:21:36 PM PST by PA Engineer (Liberate America from the Occupation Media. #2ndAmendmentMatters)
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To: nickcarraway

Switch parties?

It seems as though he’s building his own from the remains of the old ones.


28 posted on 01/31/2016 10:23:49 PM PST by datura (Proud Infidel)
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To: drewh

How many people would Trump call Nasty!


29 posted on 01/31/2016 10:59:57 PM PST by longhorn too
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To: drewh

I hope to hell we don’t find out!


30 posted on 01/31/2016 11:01:01 PM PST by longhorn too
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To: editor-surveyor

Well, hopefully we get to find out.


31 posted on 01/31/2016 11:08:54 PM PST by HANG THE EXPENSE (Life's tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
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To: drewh
The exercise of unlimited power to do "great things."

Just ask him.

32 posted on 01/31/2016 11:31:09 PM PST by Carry_Okie (The tree of liberty needs a rope.)
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To: RC one
-- Failure is an option in government. --

Failure is the mission! The system is Byzantine to facilitate accountability avoidance for the failure. Politicians' rhetoric is mostly pushing the blame marble away.

33 posted on 01/31/2016 11:38:41 PM PST by Cboldt
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To: Carry_Okie

To make an omelet you have to break a few eggs.


34 posted on 01/31/2016 11:53:18 PM PST by ichabod1 (Spriiingtime for islam, and tyranny. Winter for US and frieeends. . .)
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To: ichabod1
To make an omelet you have to break a few eggs.

Yeah, there's nothing quite like a dictator to break the bonds of the Constitution. Look at what what Sulla did for Rome!!

Oh, wait... didn't his dictatorship mark the end of the Republic, and wasn't he followed by Caesar taking power as the first emperor?

35 posted on 02/01/2016 12:05:45 AM PST by Carry_Okie (The tree of liberty needs a rope.)
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To: drewh

I think it will be like Reagan’s 3rd term.


36 posted on 02/01/2016 12:06:43 AM PST by r_barton (We the People of the United States...)
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To: Georgia Girl 2

Throw the first State Dinner for Bibi! That would blow a lot of minds.


37 posted on 02/01/2016 12:15:16 AM PST by GnuThere
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To: drewh

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-gop/3391244/posts


38 posted on 02/01/2016 12:18:31 AM PST by patriot08 (4th geneneration Texan (girl type))
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To: drewh

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-gop/3391244/posts

post 8


39 posted on 02/01/2016 12:39:40 AM PST by patriot08 (4th geneneration Texan (girl type))
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To: drewh

Lots of rebuilding and remodeling.
And being in the concrete business i might have to have my travel bag ready for when the border wall starts going up.

I suspect there will be a lot of moving vans heading to Washington DC as well, lots of new jobs of qualified people, not ones put there as a favor.


40 posted on 02/01/2016 1:13:24 AM PST by Daniel Ramsey
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