Posted on 07/16/2023 11:31:42 AM PDT by SoConPubbie
Former President Donald Trump said on this week’s broadcast of “Sunday Morning Futures” that the only mistake he made during his time in office was some of the people he picked to serve in his cabinet.
Anchor Maria Bartiromo asked, “Is there is anything you could look back on in 16 that you think maybe you want to do differently?”
Trump said, “The mistake would be people. I mean, I wouldn’t have put a guy like Bill Barr, and he was weak and pathetic. I wouldn’t have put Jeff Sessions. And there are some people that I wouldn’t have put in. You know, most people were good, but I had some people, we had Esper. I didn’t like him. He was incompetent. I thought we had other people I didn’t like.”
Bartiromo asked, “Why did you put them in the job then?”
Trump said, “You put somebody in, and you think they are good.”
He added, “All of a sudden, I’m the president of the United States, and it’s like a different society. I was New York, and, you know, it was a different thing. So I didn’t know people. I became president. I’m riding down Pennsylvania Avenue with our first lady. I had 250 motorcycles. I had armies. I had everything. I said, do you believe it? We’re president. Take a look. This is wild, right? But I never was involved in that.”
Bartiromo said, “So you didn’t know what to expect.”
Trump said, “Well, I didn’t know the people. I know the people now better than anybody has ever known. The people I know, the good ones, the bad ones, the dumb ones, the smart ones.”
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Despite the despicable and malicious behavior of Obama, Biden and Hillary, which recent POTUS was as successful as Trump? Look at what Trump accomplished for the majority of Americans:
Gas price per gallon was about $2.30;
Inflation about 1.4%, mortgage rates were half of what they are now;
Unemployment was low before Covid and before Blue Governors shut everything down and we were in the midst of a V-shaped recovery until January 22, 2021;
Tax decrease; tax laws promoted small businesses as well as large;
US enjoyed energy independence - No Green Agenda, no war on energy, No Paris Treaty;
No war in Ukraine, no threat of nuclear war, NATO paid its way;
China was quiet and we were winning the trade war;
US companies were bringing home well paying jobs due to well executed tax treatments;
There was peace in the Middle East, aka Abraham Accords; the US Embassy moved to Jerusalem; and Iran was isolated.
Trump got three non-left “I don't know what a woman is” Supreme Court Justices on the bench allowing Roe vs Wade to be overturned.
Trump had an excellent Economic Team:
https://time.com/4440711/donald-trump-economic-advisors/
They were brilliant! And do not forget Wilbur Ross.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabinet_of_Donald_Trump
Funny how Russia was quiet during the Trump Administration. There was no Russian invasion of Ukraine until Biden took over. Why was that?
I hope you remember this:
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-nuclear-summit-obama-medvedev-idUSBRE82P0JI20120326
This was a very memorable and strategic event early into Trump's Administration:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/apr/12/trump-xi-jinping-chocolate-cake-syria-strikes
The above is why Putin behaved himself during the Trump Administration. Putin invaded the Ukraine under Biden just like he did under Obama when he claimed Crimea.
Who the heck can accomplish the above in four years while being impeached twice and investigated by the Obama/Biden Weaponized Agencies?
Trump received 11 million more votes in 2020 over 2016. Never has a sitting President lost when receiving more votes in his reelection bid. Trump increased his vote total by 17+%. Trump can claim victory in 17 of the 18 bellwether counties but still “lost” according to the Dems/MSM?
Do you really believe that Bumbling Biden received 15 million more votes than Hillary? That is an amazing and unbelievable 23% increase in votes for Bumbling Biden than Hillary. The election was stolen.
DeSantis like Trump will lose to the Dem/MSM election fraud machine.
Giuliani has a huge drinking problem!
It was apparent in his post-election ‘vote integrity’ wrangling. I hope he gets that under control before he’s asked to do anything else.
Despite all the criticism of Trump’s New York Style and his choices to head agencies, let’s go down the Trump memory hole:
To begin with there was the Hillary inspired Russia, Russia, Russia Hoax that was known to and thereby approved by the Obama/Biden Administration. Think about that, a prior POTUS purposely set out to obstruct an incoming administration. That has never happened in American history. Then there were the two Impeachments 1 and 2 and finally the Special Prosecutor Investigation. Simply unbelievable!
Was Trump wrong March 2017, when he accused the Obama/Biden Administration of spying him? No he was not, but who believed him?
Despite the despicable and malicious behavior of Obama, Biden and Hillary, which recent POTUS was as successful as Trump? Look at what Trump accomplished for the majority of Americans:
Gas price per gallon was about $2.30;
Inflation about 1.4%, mortgage rates were half of what they are now;
Unemployment was low before Covid and before Blue Governors shut everything down and we were in the midst of a V-shaped recovery until January 22, 2021;
Tax decrease; tax laws promoted small businesses as well as large;
US enjoyed energy independence - No Green Agenda, no war on energy, No Paris Treaty;
No war in Ukraine, no threat of nuclear war, NATO paid its way;
China was quiet and we were winning the trade war;
US companies were bringing home well paying jobs due to well executed tax treatments;
There was peace in the Middle East, aka Abraham Accords; the US Embassy moved to Jerusalem; and Iran was isolated.
Trump got three non-left “I don’t know what a woman is” Supreme Court Justices on the bench allowing Roe vs Wade to be overturned.
Trump had an excellent Economic Team:
https://time.com/4440711/donald-trump-economic-advisors/
They were brilliant! And do not forget Wilbur Ross.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabinet_of_Donald_Trump
Funny how Russia was quiet during the Trump Administration. There was no Russian invasion of Ukraine until Biden took over. Why was that?
I hope you remember this:
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-nuclear-summit-obama-medvedev-idUSBRE82P0JI20120326
This was a very memorable and strategic event early into Trump’s Administration:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/apr/12/trump-xi-jinping-chocolate-cake-syria-strikes
The above is why Putin behaved himself during the Trump Administration. Putin invaded the Ukraine under Biden just like he did under Obama when he claimed Crimea.
Who the heck can accomplish the above in four years while being impeached twice and investigated by the Obama/Biden Weaponized Agencies?
Trump received 11 million more votes in 2020 over 2016. Never has a sitting President lost when receiving more votes in his reelection bid. Trump increased his vote total by 17+%. Trump can claim victory in 17 of the 18 bellwether counties but still “lost” according to the Dems/MSM?
Do you really believe that Bumbling Biden received 15 million more votes than Hillary? That is an amazing and unbelievable 23% increase in votes for Bumbling Biden than Hillary. The election was stolen.
DeSantis like Trump will lose to the Dem/MSM election fraud machine.
source for that?
Other than DOD
I was under the impression it is generally nearly impossible to fire a Federal employee do to union rules under normal circumstances as they are most all union.
Reagan had no problem firing the Air traffic controllers.
Most all those guys were union, but that was an exceptional situation.
I’m sticking to my point, if elected Trump can and should do a scorched Earth policy and clean house.
President Trump was a very successful President despite massive and unfair opposition. He made personnel mistakes. I don’t think anyone appreciated how bad things were when he came into office.
The Democrats stole the 2020 election. Election theft violates the Republican principle, the rule of law, and the Democrat principle of majority rule.
Republicans, and this includes Trump, are not doing enough to prevent a stolen election in 2024. Democrats are stupid and evil, but they do keep their eye on the ball. They are protecting and enhancing their ability to steal elections. Republicans remain asleep.
You are describing lion behavior-lions kill rivals in a takeover, not gorillas-I’ve never heard/read of gorillas taking over a troop by killing-there is one dominant male in a gorilla troop and other males are subordinates-more like a wolf pack. Pres Trump should go gorilla-or wolf-if the others don’t want to stay in their place, then he could go lion...
I’m voting for Trump, but did he mention Fauci (whom I think is responsible for the death of millions including my brother) or his warp-speed so-called vaccine among his mistakes?
DJT assumed there really was an opposition party somewhere in DC-and that some of his cabinet picks would represent that opposition.
He had no idea the breadth and depth of the UniParty back then—
If the democrat voter fraud of 2020 is not addressed and totally prevented by legal means in 2024, no republican is going to “get to 270” or win any swing states-ever, ever again-Jesus would not be able to win with that level of cheating, much less anyone else...
Agree with that.
You make sense.
Union rules and Civil service rules are two different things!
Civil service rules also make it hard to fire, union rules make it harder still. The exception are the following; who have “excepted service” civil service status, basically anyone who has a TS\etc. clearance - sensitive areas. Exception to the ‘sensitives areas’ requirement - teachers and administrators at DOD schools, both in the U.S. and overseas, are also excepted, as are all patent examiners. Read about in more detail with the link below.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excepted_service
It used to be the served at the pleasure of the executive i.e. President. Meaning they could be fired PDQ. That changed in 1990 with the Civil Service Due Process Amendments Act of 1990.
It could successfully argued (And it was!) that the air traffic controllers strike endangered public safety. It did! Hence the more ease in firing, the thing most people don’t know about that they were subsequently rehired! It would be hard to argue “public endangerment “ for say “Fish & Wildlife Service”.
Ten minutes of Internet search will give you those unionization figures.
I would say Pence and Barr were his worst selections. Their inactions denied him reelection.
It came out in the news today that Tim Scott has more money saved in his campaign bank than Trump does right now. I’m sure you’ll scoff, but it just shows Trump isn’t truly dominant, and the primary hasn’t even really started yet.
So true; let’s hope that voting early and using mail-in ballots will save the day. That way the lines won’t be so long on election day; this discourages many who then decide not to vote.
Scott says the 2020 returns are accurate.
Oh. Ya. Trump’s gonna get trounced by Tim Scott and his owner/donor bush RINO money. No.
Not only was Sessions a disaster, but he cost the party his AL Senate seat for three years.
Pence seemed just fine until a few days before Jan. 6, 2021. We were snookered.
I don’t know if Sessions was deceitful or just incompetent in the attorney general position.
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