Trump Staff Picks, Co-Conspirators and the Revolving Door of Departures

[Telstra]

The answer is No, No, No .... No, ... i don't know ...



funny but not funny, its terrible :/

 

[gsdx]

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Somebody wake me when he appoints a person of color or LGBT.

If I were you, I wouldn't hold my breath.

 

[Stardreamer]

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Politifact: Want to be a judge? Here are the answers to the questions Trump judicial nominee flunked

Just in case you were wondering what those questions were.

 

[KaraBulut]

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1 - How in hell did he get 'honourable' in front of his name?

He currently sits on the [highly dysfunctional and totally neutered] Federal Election Commission.

 

[KaraBulut]

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Kathleen Hartnett White, nominee for White House senior advisor on environmental policy. Mrs White has a bachelor's and master's degree in humanities and religion and previously served on the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality.

Andrew R. Wheeler is a American lawyer and lobbyist for the coal industry who Trump has nominated for Deputy Administrator of the EPA under Scott Pruitt.

 

[cocksucker4use]

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Making Federal Courts great again, Federal Court Judge nominee Matthew Spencer Petersen's testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee:

Too bad there isn't an opportunity to grill a potential POTUS on qualifications for the job.

 

[KaraBulut]

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Too bad there isn't an opportunity to grill a potential POTUS on qualifications for the job.

There is. The debates and town halls.

Contrast the way that Matt Lauer handled the "military issues" town hall with Clinton vs Trump, though.

And a reminder:

 

[Kulindahr]

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Kathleen Hartnett White, nominee for White House senior advisor on environmental policy. Mrs White has a bachelor's and master's degree in humanities and religion and previously served on the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality.

Andrew R. Wheeler is a American lawyer and lobbyist for the coal industry who Trump has nominated for Deputy Administrator of the EPA under Scott Pruitt.

I seriously think we could get better choices if they just picked random university seniors from engineering courses.

 

[KaraBulut]

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I seriously think we could get better choices if they just picked random university seniors from engineering courses.

They could. But that wouldn't do what they want to do: create a self-fulfilling prophecy that "government is the problem" by hiring people who have little or no qualifications for office and bungle the jobs they are given (many via political patronage).

While everyone is busy screaming about the incompetence and exorbitant spending of the appointees, they are slowly taking apart the pieces of government that are working.

 

[KaraBulut]

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It's probably time to retitle this thread to "Trump Staff Picks, Departures and Replacements".

Trump Staffers Are So Miserable That White House Fears Mass Exodus in 2018[Newsweek]
White House tells aides to decide whether they're staying in 2018[CBS]

The Wall Street Journal in December reported the Trump White House has seen more first-year staff turnovers than any other administration, citing Brookings Institute fellow Kathryn Dunn-Tenpas' figure of a 34-percent turnover rate for senior staff.

Recent departures, resignations and firings:

• Sean Cairncross, a senior adviser to John Kelly
• Rick Dearborn, Deputy Chief of Staff
• Jeremy Katz, Cohn's deputy at the National Economic Council
• Omarosa Manigault-Newman, who was dismissed from her job as communications director at the Office of Public Liaison.
• Shannon McGahn, counselor to Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin
• Daris Meeks, VP's Directory of Domestic Policy
• Mark Paoletta, Chief Counsel to Mike Pence
• Dina Powell, Deputy National Security Adviser

Pence previously lost two key staff members from the VP's office:

• Josh Pitcock, Chief of Staff for Pence
• Marc Lotter, Press Secretary for Pence

 

[gsdx]

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Am I the only one who is sick and tired of so much 'winning'?

 

[KaraBulut]

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Another recipient of a taxpayer-funded patronage job bites the dust....

Trump appointee Carl Higbie resigns as public face of agency that runs AmeriCorps

Trump administration appointee Carl Higbie resigned Thursday as chief of external affairs for the federal government's volunteer service organization after a CNN KFile review of racist, sexist, anti-Muslim and anti-LGBT comments he made on the radio.
"Effective immediately, Carl Higbie has resigned as Chief of External Affairs at CNCS," Samantha Jo Warfield, a spokesperson for CNCS, said in a statement...

Speaking on 'Sound of Freedom' in December 2013, Higbie, while recounting a time he placed an advertisement to give away free firewood, said "the black race" had "lax" morals. He added that black women think "breeding is a form of government employment."...

Speaking on "Sound of Freedom" in June 2013, Higbie said he didn't like Muslims because he hated their religious ideology.
"Go back to your Muslim shithole and go crap in your hands and bang little boys on Thursday nights," Higbie said. "I just don't like Muslim people. People always rip me a new one for that. Carl, you're racist, you can't, you're sexist. I'm like Jesus Christ. I just don't like Muslim people because their ideology sucks."...

Higbie derided members of the military suffering from severe PTSD as having "a weak mind" and said 75% of those afflicted were either lying or milking it for federal money...

In June 2013 on Sound of Freedom, Higbie called California Sen. Dianne Feinstein a "bitch" whose head he would like to smack into House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi's.
"Nothing gets me going like Ted Cruz, when he went off on the Feinstein Bitch about the Second Amendment and he put her in her place," Higbie said. "That was just fantastic. I can't stand that woman. She's another one. Her and Pelosi. I'd love to just take both their heads and smack them together a couple of times."...

In May 2013 on Sound of Freedom, Higbie said he did not like gay people.
"Rhode Island, land of more liberals, has just OK'ed, gay marriage," Higbie said. "Congratuf'in'lations, you suck, Rhode Island. Why would you do that? Go ahead and twist the knife a little, little bit more. I mean, you are breaking the morals, the moral fiber of our country. You know, I don't like gay people. I just don't."...

 

[gsdx]

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^ Unbelievable. I had to Google the guy and 'Sound of Freedom'.

Any idea how he got the position in the first place? Oh, yeah. Trump picked him. Birds of a feather and all that.

 

[KaraBulut]

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^ Unbelievable. I had to Google the guy and 'Sound of Freedom'.

Any idea how he got the position in the first place? Oh, yeah. Trump picked him. Birds of a feather and all that.

Like Sam Clovis, he was another right wing commentator who supported Trump and got a patronage job that his only qualification for was that he was another right wing commentator who supported Trump.

Apparently, the Trump administration only vets candidates if they're from shithole countries.

 

[gsdx]

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^ As usual then. No consideration of abilities at all. One would think that 'abilities' would be a qualification. It's no wonder the White House is in such turmoil. Nobody knows what they're doing, including the president.

 

[KaraBulut]

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^ As usual then. No consideration of abilities at all. One would think that 'abilities' would be a qualification. It's no wonder the White House is in such turmoil. Nobody knows what they're doing, including the president.

At one point during the decline of the Roman Empire, Caligula nominated his favorite horse Incitatus for a government position.

There's a lot of historical parallels.

 

[gsdx]

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^ I knew that. Does Trump have any pets we should be concerned about?

So, kiss his ass and you've got a job. What a way to form a government.

 

[KaraBulut]

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^ I knew that. Does Trump have any pets we should be concerned about?

Only these:

 

[KaraBulut]

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Meet the 24-year-old Trump campaign worker appointed to help lead the government’s drug policy office [WaPo]

...at 23, Weyeneth, was a political appointee and rising star at the Office of National Drug Control Policy, the White House office responsible for coordinating the federal government’s multibillion dollar anti-drug initiatives and supporting President Trump’s efforts to curb the opioid epidemic. Weyeneth would soon become deputy chief of staff....

Weyeneth’s only professional experience after college and before becoming an appointee was working on Trump’s presidential campaign...

After being contacted by The Post about Weyeneth’s qualifications, and about inconsistencies on his résumés, an administration official said Weyeneth will return to the position he initially held in the agency, as a White House liaison for ONDCP,...

The article also mentions that Mr Weyeneth overstated his qualifications on his resume' and his legal experience consisted of a job at a law firm where he was fired for not showing up for work. Mr Weyeneth ended up in an executive role at ONDCP because there were at least 7 resignations from the leadership of the agency, leaving Mr Weyeneth in the leadership role.

However, it appears that no one ever vetted Mr Weyeneth's qualifications.

 

[gsdx]

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^ Wow. From envelope stuffer to White House staff.