Donald Trump shook things up in ways McCarthy and McConnell would have never dreamed of.
Trump remains the alternative to conventional Republicans but of course he needs to reach further outside the Established Order when he makes choices about who is around him and in the House and Senate.
People act like Trump was free to appoint anyone he pleased. He was carefully boxed in early by Pence and McConnell and Ryan and at best had 30% of the power that a President normally has.
His one moment was firing Comey. After that Mueller was installed and he was told BY THE GOP that anymore firings would result in his removal from office. He knew Pence would also go along with it.
His choices were all made from a list approved by McConnell.
McConnell also refused to go into recess for the entire four years to prevent any recess appointments.
The DOJ and it’s subordinate bureau the FBI, the CIA, DOD and State all slow walked or openly refused to execute his orders.
The FBI and CIA and DOD all had spies inside the white house watching his every move.
All of this was against a backdrop of street terrorists stalking and menacing anyone who was in his administration. Most of the non-partisan business advisory counsel quit in the face of the leftist terrorism. This dried up the pool of “wall street killers” he always wanted to fill his administration with.
So let us quit pretending he could appoint whoever he pleased.
The people here and in the rest of the world - have discovered power ‘elites’ - men like Hunter and the Big Guy are trash. Private school, corrupt money - trash.
Our ‘elites’ don’t ‘get it’ - we have ‘hunters’ and ‘Big Guys’ in our worlds too. We know the types - no matter how much they pay for their suits of shoes...under the finery they’[re Michael Avenatti