Trumps personnel mistakes from Priebus on are really legendary. He has created so much needless drama for the forward motion of his agenda.
Unfortunately the blow back from these mistakes will still play out for a while, including the free pass he gave the witch.
Trump will never blame himself for these mistakes but he violated the basic management rule of choosing your key staff very carefully and the political rule of don’t hire your campaign staff for government...keep them on the campaign side.
It’s fascinating to see the same posters relentlessly blaming Trump for what others have done. The Bannon hire was wildly popular with Trump’s base. Why? Because bc Bannon was perceived/had presented himself as an arch-conservative.
Then Bannon conceived a consuming hatred for Kushner, and things went precipitously downhill. No doubt this is all Trump’s fault; he Jedi-mind-tricked Bannon into launching an anti-Kushner vendetta, and the rest is history.
I think it’s unfortunate we didn’t see more pro-Trump people in the Administration. People who would have supported Trump:
~Rudy Giuliani
~Newt Gingrich
~Chris Christie
(Chris and Newt were strong personalities who do have a tendency to go establishment at times, but in the end, I think they would support Trump.)
~Mike Huckabee
~Sheriff Clarke
~Herman Cain
~Rick Santorum (shared Trump’s thoughts on immigration and trade)
~Katrina Pierson
~Kayleigh Mcenany (who is at the RNC but could have easily worked for Trump)
~Paris Dennard
~Larry Kudlow
~Tony Schaeffer
~John Bolton
These are people who would have been loyal and worked for him supporting his agenda. Many of these are people I assumed would be in the Administration. If a lot of these people came in, they would have been seasoned in politics but willing to fight the establishment and for Trump and would have helped him in his goals. I also think they would have been, if in the Cabinet, locks to make sure that Trump doesn’t get impeached.