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Posted on 11/15/2016 9:15:18 PM PST by upchuck
President-elect Donald J. Trump’s transition was in disarray on Tuesday, marked by firings, infighting...
One week after Mr. Trump scored an upset victory that took him by surprise, his team was improvising the most basic traditions of assuming power. That included working without official State Department briefing materials in his first conversations with foreign leaders.
Two officials who had been handling national security for the transition, former Representative Mike Rogers of Michigan and Matthew Freedman, a lobbyist who consults with corporations and foreign governments, were fired. Both were part of what officials described as a purge orchestrated by Jared Kushner, Mr. Trump’s son-in-law and close adviser.
The dismissals followed the abrupt firing on Friday of Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey, who was replaced as chief of the transition by Vice President-elect Mike Pence. Mr. Kushner, a transition official said, was systematically dismissing people like Mr. Rogers who had ties with Mr. Christie. As a federal prosecutor, Mr. Christie had sent Mr. Kushner’s father to jail.
Prominent American allies were in the meantime scrambling to figure out how and when to contact Mr. Trump. At times, they have been patched through to him in his luxury office tower with little warning, according to a Western diplomat who spoke on the condition of anonymity to detail private conversations...
Eliot A. Cohen, a former State Department official who had criticized Mr. Trump during the campaign but said after his election that he would keep an open mind about advising him, said Tuesday on Twitter that he had changed his opinion. After speaking to the transition team, he wrote, he had “changed my recommendation: stay away.”
He added: “They’re angry, arrogant, screaming ‘you LOST!’ Will be ugly.”
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It took three journalist to cough up this hair ball?
Jared’s purging people?
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First they’re “hypocrites”, now they’re “in disarray”. Guess Sulzberger lied about that “rededicat(ion)” to reporting the news “honestly”.
Julie, Mark and Maggie take a dump in public.
Doubt it.
But we know Killary was surprised and bitterly disappointed. Too bad, so sad.
They are amateurs: amateurs to political doublespeak, backroom deals, lobbying, and dc corruption in general.
This is why I will bet everything I own on Trump and his administrations success. I will even go a step further and put BOTH kidneys, my liver, heart and lungs on top.
First seven paragraphs and nothing in the piece supports the headline that the transition is in “disarray”.
Classic propaganda techniques on display.
Eliot A. Cohen, is a “Never Trumper”. Guy must have a tin ear, thinking he had any shot at advising Pres. Trump.
Is this their new venture into honest reporting? Ha! I see they’re still up to their old tricks.
No offense but I’m reporting/alerting on you post. You are using an unreliable source.
Please do not use the NY Slimes here.
So now the NYT is reduced to concern trolling on the front page. Sad!
fake news— alert the fake news censor bot!
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PLEASE BAN THE NY SLIMES FROM THIS SITE—THEY ARE PROVEN LIARS, TRIED TO STEAL THE ELECTION AND ARE KNOWN ENEMIES OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.
PLEASE BAN THE NY SLIMES FROM THIS SITE—THEY ARE PROVEN LIARS, TRIED TO STEAL THE ELECTION AND ARE KNOWN ENEMIES OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.
PLEASE BAN THE NY SLIMES FROM THIS SITE—THEY ARE PROVEN LIARS, TRIED TO STEAL THE ELECTION AND ARE KNOWN ENEMIES OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.
Smart move to get rid of Rogers and lobbyists. Rogers’ Benghazi report was a disgrace and Hillary white wash. Glad he’s gone.
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Actually, regarding the transition, the only thing in "disarray" is the mayhem, chaos, fear and loathing, of thousands of complicit bureaucRATs, freaking out and running for their lives.
It appears that he has a distaste for having useless self-serving idiots on his payroll.
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