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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Add the Arizona anti(Republic)an to that list. They took a hard left turn years ago.
The MSM Mafia at it again.
The “amateurs” kicked the MSM all over the playing field on election night.
The Trump folks are getting their sea legs. I expect them to start slowly and improve over time.
The NYT, on the other hand, starts by scraping the bottom of the barrel and drops deep into the earth’s core from there.
Second best move by Trump!! First was selecting Pence...second is getting rid of Christie and his pals!! Mike Rogers did a HORRIBLE job!!!
Gee - he starts weeding the not so super folks early in the process instead of letting them get settled in a job he considers them unsuitable for and he’s “in disarray”.....The want him to put a blanket of un-vetted folks in so they might get lucky be his having a few traitors in the mix....
Good one! :) Wonder how much Soros is paying them?
“That included working without official State Department briefing materials in his first conversations with foreign leaders.”
How dare he talk to Putin and make plans without our approval and input! And we don’t know what he discussed!
Heh heh. I’m astonished by the arrogance of this and #Dinnergate. Welcome to leadership boys!
The vetting has begun and Trump and his team are not afraid to fire people. Christie’s baggage is too great and his people are compromised.
He’s purging the moles.
Searching searching searching for the next lie to tell. All deserve the Wile E. Coyote Trump Frustration Award. It will be presented on January 20th at a Democrat Club HQ to be named later.
Again, the failing new york times is making up stories, rather than accurately reporting the news.
Clear your browser history frequently, including cookies, and you can read as many of the Slimes articles that you can stomach.
Another false story not worth the bandwidth
That is the State Departments fault for not being there at both campaigns throughout the night! Of course, world leaders would begin calling as soon as it was known he won and that means before even the sad main stream news reported it. They chose for those calls to be go through without them.
Psyops, much?
Says who? Oh the NYT! Yeah, ok, whatever...yawn
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