Firings and Discord Put Trump Transition Team in a State of Disarray

[Grey Lemercier]

Source: The New York Times

WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald J. Trump’s transition was in disarray on Tuesday, marked by firings, infighting and revelations that American allies were blindly dialing in to Trump Tower to try to reach the soon-to-be-leader of the free world. One week after Mr. Trump scored an upset victory that took him by surprise, his team was improvising the most basic traditions of assuming power. That included working without official State Department briefing materials in his first conversations with foreign leaders.

Two officials who had been handling national security for the transition, former Representative Mike Rogers of Michigan and Matthew Freedman, a lobbyist who consults with corporations and foreign governments, were fired. Both were part of what officials described as a purge orchestrated by Jared Kushner, Mr. Trump’s son-in-law and close adviser.

The dismissals followed the abrupt firing on Friday of Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey, who was replaced as chief of the transition by Vice President-elect Mike Pence. Mr. Kushner, a transition official said, was systematically dismissing people like Mr. Rogers and Mr. Freedman who had ties with Mr. Christie. As a federal prosecutor, Mr. Christie had sent Mr. Kushner’s father to jail.

Prominent American allies were in the meantime scrambling to figure out how and when to contact Mr. Trump. At times they have been patched through to him in his luxury office tower with little warning, according to a Western diplomat who spoke on the condition of anonymity to detail private conversations.

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/16/us/politics/trump-transition.html

---

Donald Trump Is Picking His Cabinet. Here’s a Shortlist.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/us/politics/donald-trump-administration.html

[ailsagirl]

1. "Firings and Discord Put Trump Transition Team in a State of Disarray"

Good

[Equinox Moon]

2. Chaos candidate... chaos president-elect... chaos president

OMG!! Don't give him the White House!!!

[OregonBlue]

3. They have no idea what they are doing. At least they will destroy the GOP. It is now the

White Supremacist party.

[Beartracks]

5. They really are clueless.

They have no idea how to lead, or how to govern, or how to provide for the public good.

And they couldn't care less.

They just want to rule, and get big paychecks.

That's it.

============================

[OregonBlue]

8. Unfortunately, I think they do care. They want us all to become good "Christians" who shut up and

do as we are told. They want rich white men to determine how the nation is run.

[Feeling the Bern]

4. A whole lotta butthurt, especially by this son-in-law douchebag

pResident Shitgibbon is in waaaaaaaaaay over his head.

[Jim__]

6. Jared Kushner is making these decisions.

[center][/center]

Jared Kushner is making these decisions. Doesn’t that give you confidence?

From wikipedia:

Jared Corey Kushner (born January 10, 1981) is an American businessman, investor and political operative. He is principal owner of the real estate holding and development company Kushner Properties and Observer Media, publisher of the weekly New York Observer.

Kushner is the son of American real estate developer Charles Kushner and is married to Ivanka Trump, the daughter of President-elect of the United States Donald Trump. He was among the senior advisors of Trump's presidential campaign, and described as the architect of Trump's digital media campaign.[1][2] He currently plays a key role in Trump's transition team.[3]
…

[HAB911]

7. This is what they wanted

to sink the ship, mass suicide