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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I guess this means they’re corporations unto themselves, these names in CAPS.
Relax dude, the Slimes has always been the enemy of conservatives. I think Freepers can handle MSM garbage stories just fine. Have for many years.
Decisive Leadership from Trump immediately clearing out low performers is precisely how the productive sector builds winning teams.
winning
we are going to get so tired of winning
Show me any value in it, or in positing it. If you can’t that it doesn’t belong here.
And you worry about you relaxing...dude
we are going to get so tired of winning
My favorite quote!
Drain the Swamp.
wow, doubling down on anonymous thick fantasy slime
[Rogers’ Benghazi report was a disgrace and Hillary white wash.]
Is this the moron that said in so many words that it was a political hit against Hillary by the GOP?
Trump tweets denial that his transition is in turmoil:
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/donald-trump-tweet-denial-that-his-transition-team-is-in-turmoil/
NYT is a lying piece of shite (as usual).
Might as well ban the Wash Post, CNN, NBC, PBS, The LA Times, Chicago Tribune, ABC, CBS, National Review, Weekly Standard, the Blaze, Boston Globe, the Miami Herald, Seattle Times, Time, Newsweek, US News and World Report, Bloomberg, etc etc. They all hate Trump, Dude.
Bwhahahahahahahaha! Their promise to their readership to report the truth didn’t last a flipping week! Hahahahahahahahahaha!
What good are any of those you cited? In the slightest? Why do you even look at them?
I have a great life, am well informed, happy and I never look at them. They offer nothing of any value that I can see.
I’m interested, why do you like to read/wacth them?
OMG... the horror!!!
The MSM is the Country’s greatest threat.
Parent companies include: Disney, Comcast, Time Warner. Patronize at your peril.
Yes. Please do
No, that was Kevin McCarthy who is still a Congressman. He was the first pick when Boehner retired but his stupid statement ended his potential for the Speaker position. That’s how we got Ryan. Rogers is a retired FBI agent who was a great Congressman until the end and he caved to the Hillary camp. I think that he’s a lawyer and became some sort of consultant so I guess he needed to keep Dem friends in the real world.
I think the media also declared Trump didn’t have much of a campaign structure, what he did have was in ‘disarray’, and there was no ground game. So .... how’d that work out for now “President-Elect” Trump?
The enemedia, and the NYT is certainly a member of that ‘club’, has ZERO, ZIP, ZILCH, NADA credibility. Oh, did I mention the media presstitutes have no credibility?
I seldom read them. Usually glance at the headlines.
But doing a quick skim of articles you have recently posted, they include from Time, HuffPo, ABC News, Baltimore Sun, The WaPo, and Bloomberg.
Yes, the battle lines have been drawn for a long time.
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