YES! WTF is wrong with Trump and his appointments? If you’re a duplicitous POS, you can be sure of a nomination! Sessions, Tillerson, etc., the list is endless. And with each “appointment,” he looses a lot of time having to find out that he’s been had by the person! He’d have a better chance of success throwing darts at a phone book!
I’m with you my friend. I think I asked this question before and got Jarred Kushner’s name as the one who suggests these people.....I wonder if that’s true.....
I think he keeps hoping to bridge the gap with the RINOs and the RATs, but that is a fool’s mission! Donald Trump is an anathema to the whole of the government who long for everything to “go back to the way that it was before he showed up.” In the scheme of things, they think that they can “wait out” this President. They succeed to some extent, each time he appoints one of their “recommended” people, because it is just another element in “running out the clock!” OTOH, right now, the really big prize, is winning re-election. Once he’s passed that hurdle, I think all the stops will come out. So then it becomes critically important to have appointees who will do exactly as they are told and be loyal to a fault. The one that really concerns me is Wray. He’s a deep state POS in a very important position.
No one here appreciates the process of naming/vetting someone for any position, let alone all.
First, you have a limited pool of qualified people (i.e., qualified by apparent education, previous experience in a job they are being considered for, etc). When Trump went outside that pool to fill the SecState position with Tillerson, it didn’t work. I DO think business people can do most of these jobs; Rex was just a dud.
Trump doesn’t know 3,000 of these people, probably didn’t know 500 of them. So he relies on all sorts of people for suggestions-—DoD people for defense, labor people for labor, and so on. Steve Bannon asked me early if I wanted the Library of Congress position, and I said no. I’m not qualified as an administrator, and I hate D.C. But I’m sure there were thousands of offers like this.
Next, once Trump does get a name, like Andy Pudzker, the vetting starts an innocuous stuff from childhood surfaces. So he loses a bunch there. We only know of the few public ones.
Third, keep in mind that the MOST likely to survive the vetting is someone who has already held gubment jobs, i.e., the swamp, like this Macaleen guy. At that point, Trump has to ask, “Is this guy permanent swamp who will work against me, or is he a swamper who tries to do a ‘good enough’ job that he can stay in the swamp?” I think the list is about 50/50 of the names he gets.
Fourth, if it’s a position that has to have the approval of the senate, there is no way a hard-core Trumper gets through without a major fight. So, back up to #3: if the person has been in gubment at all, and is known to be a Trump-type person before 2016, that person has made enemies of people like Mininon and, earlier, McTurd. In short, a senate confirmation is anything but assured. One way-—in theory-—to overcome this was by naming a woman or black. But of course today a female or black candidate who is an R has no advantage at all.
Finally, at some point Trump sees many of these people as a very narrow tool for achieving a single goal. This was the case with McMaster, whose strength was ground war in the ME. Once ISIS was gone, McMaster-—known geopolitically to be Islamofriendly-—was out.
Finally, you have the complete paradoxes. EVERYONE thought Sessions would be phenomenally loyal; he had a great record in AL of breaking the Klan with indictments and jail; he had no “apparent” connection to the swamp. I’ve spoken with both Bannon and Richard Baris about Sessions, and while there are a lot of theories ranging from “he was threatened with serious moral stuff” to “He was afraid of Mulehead”, no one actually knows what happened with Sessions.
In short, it looks easy: “Just pick people who agree with you.” But imagine most of us were handed a major airline to run: how many would know 3,000 reliable people who could actually do all the jobs who would buy into the airline’s vision? It’s not that easy.