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struggle4progress

(118,280 posts)
Sun Jun 23, 2019, 01:28 PM Jun 2019

Why he can't fill the holes in his government

Analysis by Zachary B. Wolf, CNN
Updated 8:31 AM ET, Sun June 23, 2019

... Since taking office, Trump has blown through West Wing staffers and Cabinet secretaries at a rate unprecedented in modern US politics.

He's a mercurial boss ...

... early in Trump's presidency he surrounded himself with former generals -- James Mattis at the Pentagon, Michael Flynn and then H.R. McMaster as National Security Adviser, and John Kelly first as DHS Secretary and then as White House chief of staff.

All .. are gone now.

In the place of generals, and despite his pledges to drain the swamp, Trump has sought out former defense contractors. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, before running for Congress, ran an aerospace company. Outgoing acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan spent a career at Boeing. New Defense nominee and current Secretary of the Army Mark Esper worked at Raytheon ...

https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/23/politics/trump-cabinet-vacancies-apprentice/index.html

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Why he can't fill the holes in his government (Original Post) struggle4progress Jun 2019 OP
Mercurial boss? No, he's worse, and not a consensus person either, it's either his way or ... SWBTATTReg Jun 2019 #1

SWBTATTReg

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1. Mercurial boss? No, he's worse, and not a consensus person either, it's either his way or ...
Sun Jun 23, 2019, 02:18 PM
Jun 2019

the highway (consensus requires the joint agreement of most of all of the subject matter experts in the meeting(s)).

He's just proving to all of us on a daily basis why he's declared bankruptcy so many times, why he's remarried so many times, why basically he's a disgusting human being.

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