Trump can't keep the help, can't find good help

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  1. Sandy Shanks

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    Why is it Trump cannot keep good help? Why is it he has a hard time finding good help? Why is it he is forced to cannibalize his staff for replacements?

    Maybe it has something to do with his policies. He trashed a working agreement with Iran that permanently barred the mullahs from making a nuke. He unilaterally declared Jerusalem the capital of Israel, thereby removing the U.S. as a power broker in the Mideast. He removed the U.S. from the Paris Climate Accords and thinks global warming is a Chinese hoax. At a summit in Helsinki, Trump rejected American intelligence and believed Putin because the Russian dictator sounded sincere. In December, Trump offered surrender terms to Russia and her ally, Iran, in Syria by ordering the immediate withdrawal of all U.S. troops from the country.

    On the domestic front, the Great Negotiator has yet to finalize a trade agreement with anyone. His high tariffs threaten the powerful American economy as well as the global trading network. In December, Trump ordered an immediate government shutdown because he wanted $5.7B for a 230-mile barrier for a 2,000 mile border. The shutdown became the longest in American history and with harmful results for millions of Americans.

    Trump is the least popular President in modern American history.

    Currently, he initiated a Constitutional crisis that is creating chaos within his own party. A Democratic resolution from the House to terminate Trump's imaginary national emergency is likely to pass in the GOP-controlled Senate. In supporting Trump, Republicans in Congress must agree to weaken a fundamental power of Congress -- control of the purse strings of our government. They must also support a horrible precedent that further erodes the power of Congress. If a President does not get his way, he can declare a national emergency and get it that way.

    As a consequence Trump cannot keep the help and has difficulty finding replacements. His chief of staff came over from the DHS. Then he quit. His replacement came over from the OMB and is an acting COS. His economic advisor came over from Fox News. His national security advisor came over from Fox News. His state department spokesperson came over from Fox News, then became his nominee for U.N. ambassador, but she quite before she got started. His U.N. ambassador quit months ago. Trump has not named her replacement. His SecDef quit in December because of his surrender to Russia. Trump has not named his replacement.

    Trump's Director of National Intelligence, Dan Coats, told a Senate committee the truth about North Korea, ISIS, and Russia. Trump did not like the truth being told, and a close friend of his, Chris Ruddy, tells us Coats may be on the chopping block.

    Andrew McCabe served as the acting director of the FBI. McCabe, working with Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, stated that during the days after Comey was fired, “the highest levels of American law enforcement were trying to figure out what to do with the President,” even exploring the possibility of invoking the 25th Amendment to have Trump removed from office.

    Under the circumstances, that might not be a bad idea.

    Oh, incidentally, Rosenstein is quitting, too.
     
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    It's a problem with electing someone who ran a privately held company and someone who has never held public office. He think he still running a personal fiefdom where people cow-tow to his every whim. That's not what's going to happen with people who have spent years becoming specialists in their field. People like that don't want to work for dick-heads like Trump. They don't have to. So you end up with a bunch of poorly informed sycophants who can't help
    Trump navigate the public sector and he fires them - and ends up chasing away anyone with a brain who sees the chaos.
     
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    IF, I was living close to DC I would gladly work for President Trump.
     
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    How many years of experience do you have in the public sector?
     
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    Wait, you have to be a career wanker to work in DC?
     
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    Not going to hire a burger-flipper for the Secretary of Defense - are you?
     
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    Just Congress.
     
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    I've never voted for a burger-flipper for Congress. You seem to have very low standards.
     
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    AOC comes to mind.
     
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    So why did you vote for her?
     
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    Or you know it just could be that the lesson of Manafort et al is not lost on the rest of the swamp rats. Go to work for Trump and you run a good chance of being hounded until your dying day by a runaway special councilor with no limits on his authority to make your life a living hell over literally anything or nothing at all. DOJ is fixing to get the rats cleaned out of the wood work. The fact that Rosenstein is getting out ahead of the broom shouldn't surprise anyone.
     
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    Enlighten us Sandy, who could Trump appoint that would make you happy?
     
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    They way the liberals are attacking people that work for Trump it's obvious that some would have a legitimate fear for their or their families lives if they take the job.

    You never know when a liberal may follow you and your family to a restaurant or theater and start shooting you.

    Can't say I blame them for not wanting that risk in their lives.
     
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    You hired a reality tv star as POTUS.
     
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    Reagan had someone ACTUALLY shoot at him and his aides ... yet he didn't have half the staff turnover that Trump has. Going to call BS on your post.
    Trump has had a record number of people leave his staff, many for ethics violation concerns. People don't want to work for a guy who might end up getting them thrown in jail.
     
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    Reagan didn't have liberals telling people to follow his staff around and harass them either.

    Trump does.
     
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    Maybe all these had a good side and your bias prevents you from seeing them.
    A working agreement with Iran does not keep them their terrorist activities.. Declared Jerusalem the capital when that is where the capitol is located. Removed us from the Paris climate accord when we would be the ones who are actually required to do something while the real polluters were not held to the same standard. Don't have a clue what you are talking about regards to Putin. There are plus and minuses to withdrawal from Syria. I would like to see us out of the Mideast, period. We are just wasting lives and resources It is questionable whether we have much influence on Syria since they are more closely allied with Russia than us to start with
    I know some of those laid off. It was more of an inconvenience than any thing lasting. I could go on and on about the rest of your BS.

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    Got it. You think that Reagan had it easy because his aides were only shot while Trump's aides have to endure ridicule in restaurants.


    O-key-doke-y. That's the craziest ****ing victim card I've ever seen played. Congratulations.
     
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    So much for the thinking that a businessman can run the government better than an experienced politician who has a military career. Hiring a businessman to run the government is like the army hiring an auto mechanic to run a division instead of an experienced general. It doesn't work for the army. Why should it work for the highest office in the land?
     
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    :roflol:I am sure you would. Are you qualified or are you like a Fox News commentator being chosen to be the U.S. ambassador to the U.N.? That is Trump's hiring practice of late -- that is, if he can hire anyone new. That's been the problem with one lone exception, William Barr.
     
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    Actually here is a video of a liberal setting a Trump supporter on fire.

    So yes, there is a huge difference.

    Reagan's shooter was doing it to impress Jodie Foster, the liberals attacking Trumps people are doing it out of hate.

     
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    Maybe people don't want their lives, and their families' lives, destroyed by the leftist mobs.
     
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    Libs would love to elect a socialiat bartender to be president someday
     
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    Those who serve in the Trump administration have real skills that they can fall back on in the private sector.

    It wasn't true with the Obama administration. If you found yourself no longer part of the Obama administration your only other choice was getting a job at Fake News CNN or MSNBC or going on welfare.
     
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    He could always appoint someone competent, like say James Mattis for Secretary of Defense. I wonder how that would turn out...
     

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