President-elect Donald Trump is scrambling to line up senior officials to run the government’s sprawling intelligence and homeland security bureaucracy.
Team Trump is struggling to fill numerous key slots or even attract many candidates because hundreds have either sworn they’d never work in a Trump administration or have directly turned down requests to join, multiple current and former U.S. officials with direct knowledge of the transition efforts told The Daily Beast.
Team Trump didn’t expect to win until the campaign’s internal polling a month before the election signaled a possible victory. That’s when senior Trump officials went into overdrive, trying to build a bench of experienced national security candidates with top secret clearances willing to work for a Trump presidency—and they met resistance across the landscape of experienced GOP national security professionals.
One person who met last month with Trump’s national security and homeland security transition team leader said that she confessed that many candidates had flatly rejected attempts to recruit them, believing that Trump was unfit to hold the office of commander in chief.
This is not the only group that is terrified of a Trump presidency.
There are other groups of professionals in education, defense, energy, economics, you name it, who simply do not think that this man has what it takes to do this job.
And yet, for reasons that are still had to understand, he is indeed in that position.
Knowing there are connections between Trump's inner circle and Russia, think about how nervous National Security analysts are about giving Donny sensitive intel.
ReplyDeleteYep, these intel folks are not happy.
President Obama is the one that will decide if he gets the nuclear information and from what was said in the press yesterday, it hasn't been provided him as yet.
DeleteHe's too close to Putin and has fucking loose lips on that fat face of his.
President Obama and National Security keep the information to yourselves at this point! I'm sure the majority in America would agree with me.
I don't trust Trump as all!
Hopefully, Trump will never be sworn on in January, 2017!
Pressure needs to be put on all of the electors to fix this in the electoral college. That's what the electoral college is for.
DeleteWe'll still have a Republican president, but at least it won't be Trump.
The FBI is to blame for that. Those traitors. So suck it up. Hiel Trump.
DeleteI think a lot of that was just talk, b/c they didn't think he'd be elected. Now that he was, I suspect a lot of them would take a job if offered one. And really, they should, b/c the last thing we need is a narcissist POTUS surrouned by a lot of yes men.
ReplyDeleteEven worse, is what I believe may happen -- he is surrounded by the alt-right horrors who helped him get elected, and he becomes the "yes man" letting them all the rules for him to just push forward.
DeleteI am not surprised at this news.
ReplyDeleteTrump is a national disaster, a national disgrace, an international embarrassment.
Right on, right on, right on!!! Couldn't have said it better myself!
DeleteHe will never be my POTUS!
So what Americans do not want those jobs. Russia is full of experts willing to fill those slots.
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"Team Trump is struggling to fill numerous key slots or even attract many candidates because hundreds have either sworn they’d never work in a Trump administration"
What a nightmare.
ReplyDeleteNo, he'll have no problems. He'll just rely on his buddy, Vladimir, to make the recommendations.
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Michigan went for Trump.
ReplyDeleteTrump is Michigan's friend.
With friends like Trump, who needs enemies?
How soon we forget.
... You could have let it go, and rebuilt itself, through the free enterprise system," said Trump during a campaign appearance in Michigan almost exactly one year ago. "You could have let it go bankrupt, frankly, and rebuilt itself, and a lot of people felt it should happen. Or you could have done it the way it went. I could have done it either way. Either way would have been acceptable. I think you would have wound up in the same place.
In an interview with The Detroit News that same month, Trump floated the idea of shifting auto production to states outside of Michigan to drive down the salaries of workers and suggested that the state would "(lose) a couple of plants" but "all of sudden you'll make good deals in your own area."
This has already been done! Where has he been? Cars are made in Tennessee, Missouri and Mexico nowadays. Sheesh! Early Alzheimer's again?
DeleteThat's because the day AFTER the election, General Motors announced the firing of 2,000 auto workers in Michigan and Ohio.
DeleteBet they regret their vote now. Just like Brexit. The Deplorables never learn.
Your jobs are GONE you fucking assholes.
Macomb County rednecks elected Trump, the idiots believe that he is going to bring the jobs back.
DeleteTrump was all for letting the auto industry go bankrupt.
republicans have very short memories.
Whatever happened to the daily leaks against Hillary Clinton? They suddenly stopped.
ReplyDeletePutin has the puppet he fraudulently put in office. No need to continue, and have the finger continue to be pointed in his direction.
DeleteGuiliani was about the only person (besides Trump's uneducated mass) that was calling still for Hillary to go to prison immediately after Trump became president elect. And NOW he is being considered for spot of attorney general. Be very afraid America!
DeleteI know right? All of a sudden everything about Hillary ceased. Ah, well. Let them have their way with our country. Conquers have come and gone in human history. It's just done differently. The whites felt threatened and they got their country back. Now it's great again. Just like that. All's well.
DeleteWasn't Giuliani is some kind of legal trouble himself?
DeleteI swear this is being to look like Nixon administration all over again.
Would asking Trump for his taxes be out of the question?
ReplyDeleteyou will never ever see his taxes.
DeleteAs an elected official he has to fill out a full disclosure document on where he gets his money, who he owes money, etc.
DeleteIf he lies in any way, including omission, that's perjury and an impeachable offense.
If he tells the truth, I believe those documents are available under the freedom of information act. So it will be made public.
Then we can all scream TOLD YOU SO at the butt-stupid Deplorables.
OMG! This turn of events (I wouldn't work for him either! You couldn't pay me enough to be associated w/him!) in folks not wanting to be considered for his Administration could allow an idiot like Sarah Palin to perhaps become the head of the Department of Education! Cracks me up even thinking about it! She'd be so far in over her head it wouldn't be funny!
ReplyDeleteBut, oh wait - Trump says he's going to demolish the Department!
Trump is the most unqualified idgit to grace the White House. Hopefully, His Dictatorship doesn't put TRUMP on the White House in gold. That is all we'd need!
But, it would be an absolute reason to begin impeaching proceedings against him as potus! I really think he'll be booted out of the office.
Unfortunately the Republicans in Congress are in line with him and gleefully pushing their own horrid plans. The Dems have no power at all it seems. I doubt any Republican would go along with impeachment.
DeleteToo True.Unfortunately.....
DeleteNope.
DeletePence is now the head of the transition team. He'll be putting reliable party supporting political mainstream people in those spots.
Carson, Palin, Christie will all be out.
Who they choose will be a nightmare for all of us.
American Himmler, American Goebbels, all serving American Hitler.
Until Trump is impeached.
They'll be looking for an opportunity and will waste no time impeaching him so Pence can move up and solidify power.
NSA may feed Trump fake intelligence info and then wait and see how long it for Russia to get it.
ReplyDeleteAnd if Trump keeps embarrassing our country with his tweets the GOP may ask Russia to hack his twitter account. What is going to happen with this screwed up admin. is anybody's guess!
DeleteThen what?
DeleteExpose him and hope for impeachment?
Not gonna happen.
Trump's problems go much deeper than filling cabinet and sub-cabinet slots.
ReplyDeleteHe has NEVER lived in a fishbowl with his every bowel movement, his every word, his family's every move subjected to 24/7/365 prying cameras and pesky reporters. And, if he stiffs the press . . . well, there's that saying about don't pick a fight with someone who buys ink by the barrel.
We saw how he reacted during the campaign when prying eyes discovered his real self.
But, hey, fuck him, he asked for it.
YES! This is what I"ve been saying.
DeleteHe will be protected just like Washington protected the last dimbulb Republicans W and Saint Reagan. We will be threatened if we dare criticize Trump and he will spend most of the time vacationing exactly like those two dumbasses did.
DeleteWhat he will like even less is the 365 days a year political cartoons and late night show hosts picking on him. He and Melanoma will be the butt of jokes every day until he leaves office.
DeleteI only hope the electors are watching his twitter account for the next few weeks. Then they need to think long and hard before they cast those votes.
Sign this?
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Considering how many Republican electors there are, they'd have a better chance of just asking them to vote for anyone but Trump. That would send it to the House and Senate. We'd still have a Republican but not Trump.
DeleteThey hate Hillary and will NOT vote for her.
People who refused to vote Democrat don't trust Hillary at the foreign policy wheel. They have a point.
ReplyDeleteYes, Mrs Clinton made it a part of her public persona to piss of each and every head of state she met with as Secretary and Senator.
DeleteGods, you're thick as 2 short planks, 10:00.
Painting voters with such a broad and un-nuanced brush stroke is a dead giveaway, you stereotyping troll.
Kind of like painting every republican as a racist, misogynist, dumb white backwoods redneck, 11:15? Even though a large swath of these republicans voted for a black democrat president twice.
DeleteThis election as a referendum on the hubris of coastal liberal elites.
DeleteBernie recognized that. The DNC didn't. The DNC didn't listen and didn't pivot. Time to clean house.
Okay. Hillary lost. Now stop with the Hillary said this, Hillary did this. The Kock bros. played good for your brainwash but now you have to let it go. Let it go. You guys get to building that damn wall, it ain't gonna build itself.
DeleteAnd now Pence is taking over the transition job from Christie. There will be more Wash insiders and more ultra-conservative Stepfordy white men who all have the same plastered hairstyle given positions.
ReplyDeleteYep. And if those bastards thought Mitchie McConnell was a master of obstructionism, they aint seen nothing yet.
DeleteConsider my trenches already dug.
Exactly.
DeleteSo much for draining the swamp.
I hope the Deplorables are happy.
Clinton will not be locked up.
There will be no wall.
There will not be any mass deportations or internment camps.
Parts of Obamacare will stay intact.
And the swamp will not be drained.
They screwed themselves for a day or two of euphoria. As each day passes it will sink in even more that they made the wrong choice.
Especially to those 2,000 GM auto workers in Ohio and Michigan who are being pink slipped in January.
Hope Trump's inauguration sticks in their craw and they choke on it.
Well, the Koch brothers did vow to get this election. It's theirs now. Toilet paper money played a big part in this.
DeleteBoycott facebook. Delete your account.
ReplyDeleteI'm supposed to put the country first and want Trump to succeed. Sorry, but no can do. I love that the best people want nothing to do with him, and I hope a sense of country first doesn't cause them to change their minds. Let Trump fuck up. Over and over. If things get to the point where, say, we're on the brink of war with some country, then the best people will step in and save us from calamity. Otherwise, I want to see the Trump admin fail miserably and I want to see all the supporters have their dreams dashed. At least with W I could wish him success. He was in way over his head but it was Cheney who was evil. Trump is evil. I want him to be so over his head and stressed that he ages a hundred years in his first six months.And I want the lawsuits to go on. No reason why he shouldn't be forced to deal with these:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/11/10/75-lawsuits-against-president-elect-trump.html
And if he is a success that is somehow a bad thing?
Deleteso now the trump children and ivanka's husband are in charge of the transition? can't tell from the notelike scrawl across my tv screen.
ReplyDeleteMassive conflict of interest, hey are supposedly going to bee in charge of his blind trust. How the f can it be a blind trust when the people running it are you find kids? He needs to put that shit pile of investments into a trust run by outsiders. Moron.
DeleteCan we hire a crop duster to spray grass killer all over his golf courses?
ReplyDeleteAgent Orange would be more appropriate!
DeleteNo problem. Trump will just hire incompetents then.
ReplyDeleteThis will mean the worst of the worst get those jobs. That is no good either.
ReplyDelete^^^^ this.
Delete"Team Trump didn’t expect to win until the campaign’s internal polling a month before the election signaled a possible victory."
ReplyDeleteIs that when the FBI let Giuliani know about the Abedin laptop and promised that October surprise?
I think they knew he was gonna win. I felt back when he said something about them calling him the brexit president he knew it was in the bag. Someone had told him. And the way Christie signed on, and every other Republican signed on. Oh, I think they knew something we didn't. Something is and was not right. But right now gotta suck it up. Elections have been stolen and manipulated before so it's just an American reality. The Republican play dirty and the Democrats go higher. Doesn't work out when people are playing dirty.
DeleteHe will find plenty of people now that he has won. I think just about everyone involved in politics is whore-ish. Unfortunately.
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