Posted on 06/19/2023 5:47:45 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Wray
Barr
Bolton
Milley
What do they all have in common? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?
Okay, I’ll tell you: Ivy League establishment...
Wray (Yale/Yale Law)
Barr (Columbia)
Bolton (Yale/Yale Law)
Milley (Princeton/Columbia)
Trump’s great weakness is that, at heart, he’s an outer-borough guy. He’s the Fordham boy who transferred to Penn. In the world in which he came of age, the Harvard/Yale/Princeton/Columbia people are the superstars. They exist on a plane that’s barely visible to the Queens middle class.
After everything that’s happened, one would hope that Trump has been cured of his admiration of and deference to the Ivy League establishment. If there’s to be 2nd Trump term, he must reject that Ivy crowd in favor of, yes, regular middle-class conservative Americans from the public colleges, the Fordhams, the BYUs, the TCUs, etc.
All that being said, maybe this is the best we can do.
Tell us exactly how Ronnie will get a tough AG and FBI Director through
the Senate with RATs and RINO’s Led by Mitch. Mitch provided a list to Trump
of picks that could be confirmed.
"Trust Sessions" was the mantra I recall.
And if Trump were still President today with Pence and Barr still in their former positions I don't think we'd be too terribly upset with them, either...as none of the other events or comments they have made since that time would have or could have occurred.
Indeed, I’ll point out Trump’s weakness in the hopes of improvement….but if it’s Trump vs Bidet, I’ll take tripping over coffee tables vs drooling over children.
In hindsight, that’s probably true.
“He personally picked that goon tillerson who he knew for decades.”
Donald Trump had never met Rex Tillerson until he appointed him Secretary of State. See link: https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/from-rex-tillerson-to-william-barr-who-would-work-for-donald-trump
They first met on December 6, 2016, about a month after the election. Tillerson was recommended to Trump for Secretary of State by Condolezza Rice and Robert Gates at a meeting with Trump on December 2, 2016. Prior to Tillerson’s name being raised the prime candidates being considered by Trump for Secretary of State had been Rudolph Giuliani, Mitt Romney, David Petreaus, and Bob Corker. https://www.politico.com/story/2016/12/rex-tillerson-donald-trump-secretary-of-state-232581
The fact is Trump failed to begin the process of identifying and vetting candidates for key positions in his administration until he had been elected. The transition teams of most president elects have an administration in waiting identified by Election Day. Trump took the oath of office with many Obama holdovers still in key positions because his transition team, led by Chris Christie, failed to do the job.
Speak for yourself.
Let the record show...Bar was praised to the hilt by a great many people who were supposed to be stalwart conservatives. Mark Levin, Victoria Toensing and her husband, and many many others with conservative credentials.
Prior to Barr being named as AG there was not a word of warning uttered by any well-known conservative person or organization.
Granted there might have been some obscure person or organization with little influence but, no one of any influence uttered a single bad word about the man.
This is the case for the vast majority of President Trump’s appointees.
So, hammering a total outsider for not being a Clairvoyant is completely disingenuous. It wreaks of Ulterior Motives.
Which leaders of today are you referring to?
Wow. He admitted approves of his 100% RINO hires.
That’s B.S. Trump supporters cheered Pence, and especially Sessions. Remember how much Sessions was lauded for being the first Republican to endorse Trump.
He might need a bunch of G. Gordon Liddys.
He trusted people because he was an outsider.
Slim’s definition of trust… “The condition necessary for betrayal to occur.”
He had some great picks, too.
Ben Carson, Rick Perry, Betsy DeVos, Steve Mnuchin.
Some folks were all-in for MAGA.
Trump had an excellent Economic Team.
https://time.com/4440711/donald-trump-economic-advisors/
They were brilliant!
Ans do not forget Wilbur Ross.
I’ll repeat myself. This is about ADMINISTRATION. And it’s a problem in Trump-land. And he keeps tripping over coffee tables that HE PLACED.
We need to be honest. Trump was a great President, helped make America great again, stopped Hillary, and lots of other magnificent things. His SCOTUS picks helped get Roe overturned, and lots of other great things. When Trump is on, he’s on.
But we can get MORE. And we won’t if something isn’t done about Trump’s Achilles - his personnel instincts, which beget an inability to administer policy.
The “But we can get MORE” part is where you lose me. Trump’s personnel problems were only a problem because of what hw was trying to accomplish in Washington. Deep staters like Bush, Clinton, Obama and Biden never have the kinds of personnel problems Trump had. Is that because they’re better at picking personnel? Hardly. When you’re a Uniparty president, you know the bureaucracy isn’t going to stab you in the back, because you’re all playing for the same team.
If by “But we can get MORE”, you mean electing a professional politician like DeSantis (or any of the others, save Vivek, for that matter) you’re really missing the big picture.
I think Trump tried to work within the system during his first term. Towards that end, he hired a number of people with beltway connections who he believed would be loyal to him and use their connections to help him implement his agenda. Considering that most of the deep state was already there when he arrived, it seemed like a reasonable approach at the time.
Even having someone loyal to him heading up a department didn’t automatically mean there would be no undermining of his authority by entrenched underlings who were already there when he arrived. The rot runs deep. And because it’s difficult to fire federal employees, greater emphasis should be made at fixing that, instead of focusing exclusively on who heads the department.
Yes, he picked incredibly bad people. Too many. And there’s absolutely nothing to suggest that he will do better next time around. Heck he can’t even find decent attorneys right now.
——AND LARRY KUDLOW, ONE OF THE BEST HIRES!!
W R O N G !!!!!!!
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