CBS's Major Garrett: Trump's nominee for Navy Sec, Philip Bilden, will likely withdraw this weekend

[highplainsdem]

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News: Am told by two people familiar with the matter that Navy Secretary nominee Philip Bilden is likely to withdraw - cld b this weekend.

Bilden's a financier but also a former military intelligence officer, so he's almost certainly been hearing plenty from contacts in the intel community about Trump.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. I wonder if that deranged press conference has scared off

potential nominees? Any of them who are even halfway sane won't want anything to do with this trainwreck; unfortunately that means the bottom of the barrel will be scraped bare and all the agencies of our government will be run by more guys like Trump: Stupid, uninformed, rich, greedy and corrupt.

[GallopingGhost]

2. Shades of

What if they gave a war and nobody came?

[eleny]

3. looks like he recognizes a sinking ship when he sees it

[underpants]

5. We are adrift

[HAB911]

4. I hope the word is "he's going down"

[highplainsdem]

6. Sean Spicer just tweeted to deny Garrett's report:

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Those people would be wrong. Just spoke with him and he is 100% commited to being the next SECNAV pending Senate confirm.

[HipChick]

8. I have no reason to believe anything coming out of the WH..

24/7 spin spin machine..

[Ms. Toad]

11. Cue Spicer fading into meaninglessness

as Garrett withdraws his nomination, just like KellyAnne Conway seems to have following her Flynn out-of-loopness.

[politicaljunkie41910]

13. Spicer has nothing better to do than monitor Tweets. Or is that part of his job description?

Job Description: Monitor internet for tweets which could prove disparaging to your crazy ass boss.

I just hope his job pays overtime, because that would be a 24 hour a day job.

[Warpy]

7. Nobody wants Bannon on the NSC

That's been a sticking point with a couple of people so far, and I imagine it will be the same among all current military. While I've often been critical of entrenched Pentagon types, they're earning their paychecks now by standing up to this shit.

[gordianot]

9. Historically Naval wars are the start of American wars.

From 1812 to Vietnam and in between. We are due for another one.

[njhoneybadger]

10. Crazy Train going off the rails?

I know that things are going wrong for me:

[JCanete]

12. Jesus, Garrett is at CBS Van Sustren and that other fox anchor at MSNBC...Trump is full of shit

about the media....and yet he's also accidentally not far from the truth on that one. It irritates me that he's just so batshit crazy that he's put us in the position of defending a relatively piss-poor fourth estate, which incidentally, got him elected.