[straps]

Ever stop to realize most of the failures were because The Donald depended on GOP leaders to suggest people for positions. After all heis not from DC so he depended on people like Rence to staff smaller offices like this dump. BTW who is the idiot who allowed the WAPO into the building? Another traitor rears there heads...

[Badboo]

Pulease. . .Trump, in the primaries fully ran against the GOPe. He talked about how he could change the dynamic. Go back and listen to the things he said about Ryan, etc. he knew full well what was awaiting him on the Hill. And he knew full well some of his biggest adversaries were Republicans. You have to ignore all of this and his own understanding as an outsider to give him a pass. No go.

What he didn't do was prepare. He didn't call on the decades of work at Heritage, Cato, Reason, and even Brookings that personnel is policy. Work that went back to the Reagan years.

He either was ignorant, overconfident, or stupidly thought campaign staff could successfully transition to presidential staff and qualified selectors. They don’t.

Aside from a few good picks, he blew it and has paid for it. Worse he failed to go through the plum and prune books and clear out the Obama holdovers. These Sch. C appointments are not subject to confirmation and he left them in. In presidential personnel management this is a crime. Reagan cleared out the Carter people, Bush cleared out the Reagan people, Clinton cleared out the Bush people, Bush jr. cleared out the Clinton people, Obama cleared out the Bush jr people. Only Trump let Obamas staff stay. Unfricking believable.

How do I know this? Because I was there. Cleared and appointed twice by Reagan. Fired by Bush because I was for Reagan, and saw how Clinton and Obama created armies of progs burrowed in the bureaucracy.

Long before he took his office I said Trump would fail in appointments and he did.