Posted on 01/07/2017 10:05:59 AM PST by RoosterRedux
On Friday, the Washington Post declared “the honeymoon seems to be ending between retired Gen. James N. Mattis and Donald Trump’s transition team amid an increasingly acrimonious dispute over who will get top jobs in the Defense Department — and who gets to make those decisions.”
The report cites two unnamed sources “close to the transition” who said a large number of Pentagon civilian posts remain unfilled, because the incoming Secretary of Defense is rejecting many of the candidates put forward by the transition team.
The spat between Mattis and the transition team is said to have begun when he learned about the nomination of Vincent Viola for Secretary of the Army by reading the newspapers. “Mattis was furious. It made him suspicious of the transition team, and things devolved from there,” said one of the Washington Post’s sources.
Since then, the sources indicated that two other major points of contention have been Mattis’ desire to “allow ‘NeverTrump’ Republicans to serve in the Pentagon,” and the transition team’s choices for a few key posts, such as the Undersecretaries of Defense for Intelligence and Policy.
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Incoming White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer disputed the Washington Post’s report on Friday morning, dismissing all of the information provided by the Post’s sources as “completely false”:
Great transition at DoD. Reports to contrary completely false and come from sources who do not have any knowledge of our transition efforts https://t.co/NwzWxLW4sj— Sean Spicer (@seanspicer) January 6, 2017
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Unnamed sources.....
Why post this crap?
Seems to me the good General should be the final arbiter.
Fake News
Oh dear, the WaPo has all the information we will ever need. Transition team a total failure-—NOT. I choose to believe Spicer.
Know thy enemy.
He is in charge. Where is the debate snowflakes?
Seems to me the good General should be the final arbiter.
The general should propose people, with Trump vetoing people who don’t fit his vision.
I can see there would be a conflict. Hope it gets resolved...you can’t avoid all never trumpets for some things as there were so mnany but trump should be the final decision
>>Unnamed sources.....
Why post this crap?
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Grist for the fake news mill.
What’s with this Breitbart reporter?? He’s been dogging Trump.
To a point. But he also works for Trump. And if Trump is not in agreement with some key appointments, it’s Mattis’ job to find an appointee acceptable to both. That is of course if the report is true. Big IF!
False news by “progressive”-loving LIB “news”. What a pathetic fraud and joke these “journalists are.
False news by “progressive”-loving LIB “news”. What a pathetic fraud and joke these “journalists” are.
The Washington Post can be trusted about as far as you can throw a Buick.
Trump is not above leaking fake news to WaPo just to damage their credibility.
“The Washington Post can be trusted about as far as you can throw a Buick.”
....as far as you can throw a car.
Bezos has paid (is still paying?) 20 full time investigators to come up with dirt on Trump and all they got was one word very out of line....must not be much there.
Could Mattis be the reason Woolsey stepped down?
I say as soon as you see "unnamed sources" stop reading right there.
Time to be accountable folks...
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