Posted on 07/16/2023 11:31:42 AM PDT by SoConPubbie
Former President Donald Trump said on this week’s broadcast of “Sunday Morning Futures” that the only mistake he made during his time in office was some of the people he picked to serve in his cabinet.
Anchor Maria Bartiromo asked, “Is there is anything you could look back on in 16 that you think maybe you want to do differently?”
Trump said, “The mistake would be people. I mean, I wouldn’t have put a guy like Bill Barr, and he was weak and pathetic. I wouldn’t have put Jeff Sessions. And there are some people that I wouldn’t have put in. You know, most people were good, but I had some people, we had Esper. I didn’t like him. He was incompetent. I thought we had other people I didn’t like.”
Bartiromo asked, “Why did you put them in the job then?”
Trump said, “You put somebody in, and you think they are good.”
He added, “All of a sudden, I’m the president of the United States, and it’s like a different society. I was New York, and, you know, it was a different thing. So I didn’t know people. I became president. I’m riding down Pennsylvania Avenue with our first lady. I had 250 motorcycles. I had armies. I had everything. I said, do you believe it? We’re president. Take a look. This is wild, right? But I never was involved in that.”
Bartiromo said, “So you didn’t know what to expect.”
Trump said, “Well, I didn’t know the people. I know the people now better than anybody has ever known. The people I know, the good ones, the bad ones, the dumb ones, the smart ones.”
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Great! Live, learn, andv do better.
Yes, he was in over his head. Talked a good game, but never got control of the executive branch and the government. He repeatedly picked bad people, turned good people into bad people, left treasonous traitors in places of leadership. Trump was not prepared and the people he surrounded himself with failed him miserably. Blame them if you want, but this starts and ends with Trump. Nothing suggests it would be any different in a second term. Nothing.
It’s ok, Mr President. A price you paid for being a newbie in the ugly world of politics where everyone, save for immediate family members, is a potential enemy. No more of these douches in your third term.
He didnt know any better at the time..unfortunately he got some HORRIBLE advice and brought in many of the same swamp creatures he vowed to get rid of..he found out the hard way there are PLENTY and I mean PLENTY of swamp creatures in the GOP that need to be given the boot
No sh*t, Sherlock!
How could anyone have know that Bill “Ruby Ridge” Barr would work against our interests?
OK, then you stick with Biden.
Bring back Flynn and Bannon!
I am glad to hear him say this. He thought that everyone would fall in line because that’s what they do in business. He had a thousand yes men in business. Washington people are a whole other animal and he has become very acquainted with that animal.
There is one man Donald Trump was wise to choose as a cabinet member: Ben Carson.
Anyone knows you don’t take a Senator out of play...
Nothing suggests it would be any different in a second term. Nothing.
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Just wow. Trump got some amazling things done under the circumstances.
You have missed the one thing about Trump. He does learn and he stays in the battle.
Instead of pissing and moaning like some here................
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The Left has a playbook now.
Lindsey, Christie, Barr, Sessions - a thousand Vindman wannabes. Take him down from the Inside.
Have any private conversations with World Leaders been leaked since Trump?
Need a plan.
Trump won’t admit it, but McConnell had a lot of control over him, to the extent he controlled approval of key appointments.
Sessions was a Pontius Pilate traitor. He washed his hands with his surprise, ridiculous “recusal,” and purposefully opened the sluice-gates at the DOJ for 2 years of persecution of Trump by Mueller/Weissmann, and later, the Vindmans and Pelosi.
He also concomitantly helped promote the sick, corrupt, neocon propaganda to go to war with Russia in Ukraine.
Sessions was a total scoundrel and a disaster.
If Trump wins his 2nd cabinet must be all Washington outsiders.
“Nothing suggests it would be any different in a second term. Nothing.“
Let me ask you this: If this was you and saw the grief and problems this mix of back stabbers and fools caused do you think you would learn from it? If the answer is yes do you think Trump is at least as smart and wise as you are?
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Appoint Pence as the Minister of “Not my Concern”
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Too true and all thanks to the backstabbing GOPe wind of the Uniparty. The very same GOPe a-holes you try to push on us every day. Foad
Well he was prasing rhino Tim Scott today.
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