I wonder if Trump, if elected of course, could make his primary labor a process of draining the swamp and making lifetime examples of out all these corrupt folks. Examples— Bill, Hillary, Obama, Koskinen, Lerner,and on and on.
Yep...Indictments, convictions and long sentences are surely deserved by these criminals.
In my view Trump will clean house in the Justice Department which would be a huge step forward. If they would then review these cases and indict for any crimes ignored in this administration many of them would be indicted.
That may be too much to hope for but it seems to me it’s a possibility.
The last time I saw a number mentioned was at least 12 years ago, so it has most likely increased since then. But 12 years ago about 3300 jobs in Washington were direct political appointees. These were people who the president owed favors to. One of the jobs was managing the office that controls the two or three full time employees who monitor the no-man’s land (which, as I recall is 50 feet wide) separating the US from Canada. Nobody is allowed to fence it or build a structure. The management job, as I recall, paid something like $225k and the manager under any president had NEVER been to his office. It was just a political gimme.
I would not be surprised to find out that the number is 10,000 jobs now. The Clinton White House had something like 3,300 employees most of which didn’t really have anything to do. (For contrast, FDR fought all of WWII with around 500 with no cell phones, faxes or computers.)