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Lint Head

(15,064 posts) Thu Mar 9, 2017, 12:34 AM Mar 2017

Trump Has Quietly Installed Hundreds of Officials Across the Government

While President Trump has not moved to fill many jobs that require Senate confirmation, he has quietly installed hundreds of officials to serve as his eyes and ears at every major federal agency, from the Pentagon to the Department of Interior.

https://www.propublica.org/article/meet-hundreds-of-officials-trump-has-quietly-installed-across-government

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Trump Has Quietly Installed Hundreds of Officials Across the Government (Original Post) Lint Head Mar 2017 OP

Don't they call those secret police in most other dictatorships? luvMIdog Mar 2017 #1

This sounds awfully big government of Trump. nt cstanleytech Mar 2017 #2

Stalin did the same thing, of course... pangaia Mar 2017 #3

Not many people are qualified. L. Coyote Mar 2017 #4

we are going to have to fumigate lapfog_1 Mar 2017 #5

Bannon at work (eom) Samantha Mar 2017 #6

... Lucinda Mar 2017 #7

I liked the hire of a kid who just graduated high school in 2015 Blue_Tires Mar 2017 #8

So how do we deal with situations where lack of government staff in place is detrimental? Fluke a Snooker Mar 2017 #9

luvMIdog

(2,533 posts)

1. Don't they call those secret police in most other dictatorships?

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Thu Mar 9, 2017, 12:37 AM

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cstanleytech

(26,299 posts)

2. This sounds awfully big government of Trump. nt

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Thu Mar 9, 2017, 12:40 AM

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pangaia

(24,324 posts)

3. Stalin did the same thing, of course...

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Thu Mar 9, 2017, 12:52 AM

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The KGB was all over the hotels in which I stayed in Moscow and Leningrad in 1985. A couple were easily bought off with USD lol !!!

I know I know.,Stalin was dead by then , but you get the picture....😅

L. Coyote

(51,129 posts)

4. Not many people are qualified.

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Thu Mar 9, 2017, 12:54 AM

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lapfog_1

(29,205 posts)

5. we are going to have to fumigate

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Thu Mar 9, 2017, 02:32 AM

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the government when he is eventually impeached.

By that, I mean fire everyone they have hired since Drumpf slithered into office.

Samantha

(9,314 posts)

6. Bannon at work (eom)

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Thu Mar 9, 2017, 03:55 AM

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Lucinda

(31,170 posts)

7. ...

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Thu Mar 9, 2017, 04:28 AM

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Blue_Tires

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8. I liked the hire of a kid who just graduated high school in 2015

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Thu Mar 9, 2017, 09:44 AM

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Must be somebody's nephew...

I'm sure running the presidency like a mafia family is just what the working-class whites in the rust belt thought they were voting for...

Fluke a Snooker

(404 posts)

9. So how do we deal with situations where lack of government staff in place is detrimental?

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Thu Mar 9, 2017, 10:27 AM

Mar 2017

For instance, Mexico's own businesses hurt, including their employees and their families, when we don't have staff in place. It's a quagmire. We NEED people in our government, but when Drumpf adds his people, it makes it worse.

Example: http://www.salon.com/2017/03/08/unsweetened-mexico-cancels-sugar-export-permits-to-u-s-because-theres-no-one-to-negotiate-with/

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