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struggle4progress

(118,319 posts)
Fri Feb 9, 2018, 05:12 PM Feb 2018

Doesn't get the best people

Paul Waldman

"I'm going to surround myself only with the best and most serious people," Donald Trump said in 2015. "We want top of the line professionals" ...

... "Senior aides to .. Trump knew for months about allegations of domestic abuse levied against .. Porter .. even as Porter's stock in the West Wing continued to rise" ...

... Kelly ... In recent months .. has slandered a congresswoman, said that the Civil War happened because of "a lack of an ability to compromise," and said DREAMers who didn't sign up for DACA "were too lazy to get off their asses" ...

... There's Paul Manafort, the alleged money-launderer who ran his campaign. There's Michael Flynn, the national security adviser who was working as a paid agent of a foreign government while in Trump's employ and lied to the FBI about his contacts with Russia. There's Tom Price, who left the administration after his profligate use of private planes at taxpayer expense was revealed. There's Sebastian Gorka, whatever the hell he was ...

http://theweek.com/articles/753966/trump-doesnt-best-people-gets-worst-heres-why

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