Posted on 08/03/2017 9:21:13 AM PDT by ColdOne
Perhaps President Trump is allowing this because he found out these allies were not, in fact, allies?
Who knows if these people were any good at their jobs, for instance? In a meritocracy people get fired for being incompetent regardless of their political views. Sometimes they blame ideology for the reason they got canned just like some others blame race or other things.
I don’t know the facts, because like everyone else I’m just a person on an anonymous message board. But I tend to apply critical thinking and look for logical fallacies more than some.
“Let’s hope this is fake news. I cannot see Trump letting this happen.”
Unfortunately I can. Trump is FAR less pro active then I would have expected. I mean jeez Rosenstein is still there, the guy who engineered the Mueller witch hunt. He could have had someone in there to get Mueller under control but did nothing and it may cost him his Presidency.
Why does it appear that the Departmental Secretaries and Agency Advisors no longer report to the President?
We elected a President, not Secretaries or Advisors.
I fear that Mr. Trump has lost control of the zoo, and the predators are running free. Mooch was an indication.
I think there’s an opening in Afghanistan opening up. The general in charge there is getting canned.
Well, it’s all about the serenity prayer, honestly.
I have peace about what is going down. I have disengaged to the point where I very much see this world as “the matrix”. Most importantly, it’s about the amazing temporary nature it has for all of us, especially those of or approaching retirement age.
I leave it to the young guys to duke it out. My mind is more on the eternal and less on the things of this earth. Frankly, events of late are exposing to me the error of my ways regarding this stuff when I was younger.
Except that he isn't firing any of Obama's holdovers - why would they think they'll be fired?
“I cannot see Trump letting this happen.”
I’d like to agree with you, but he put McCabe as top dog at the FBI for a long time.
I don’t understand why he didn’t clean house of every Obama-era staff member and high officials before Feb. 1. For a genius, successful businessman, he’s made some big mistakes.
Bring McCrystal back,put him in charge
Two things are ultimately going to cripple this administration (if it hasn’t already occurred).
1. When you run as a political novice and outsider, you have no natural allies. Trump can forge temporary alliances on some issues, but there is no one truly committed to his success with the possible exception of Bannon, who has no allies himself. Even if Ryan and McConnell and McCain and Flake and Murkowski and Collins vanished tomorrow, they would be replaced by people with no relationship with him and different visions.
2. When you have no natural political allies, it probably makes sense to reward those who were extremely loyal to you personally at any point. Ask Christie and Sessions and Preibus (who shut down every anti-Trump movement at the Convention) and Flynn, and, I guess, Scaramucci how that worked out.
Trump needs to start having meetings with a trusted skeleton crew and everything should be conducted in writing with all papers incinerated before anyone leaves the room.
Maybe they should all be in their underwear too.
Not kidding.
...........who the hell does anyone believe anymore?
How about ya stop firing the people who have your back? How about ya start hiring the people who helped you through the election and worked tirelessly? How about ya get rid of Obamaunists and NeverTrumpers.
People are leaking, he is trying plug the leaks so a World War can either be prevented or fought correctly. The President of the United States has to have secure communications.
This is a bizarre characterization.
They are purging those who wear tin foil hats to work and write about it.
“chaos”
The lib buzz word of the month.
It’s clearly been McMaster’s direction from the start.
And still Trump has kept him on. (Though reportedly Trump was looking to give him a 4th star and kick him back to the army—but the army didn’t want him!)
This has been going on for months now. John DeStephano has been undermining the hiring of any Trump loyalists for months now. He is the GOPe traitor brought in by Priebus. And Jivanka are the ones who convinced Trump to go in this entire Establishment direction from the start of his admin. Meanwhile, Roger Stone, for example, Trump’s decades-long friend who has been involved in decades of GOP politics, had tried his darnedest to convince Trump that personnel is policy and destiny in political office. He had tried to get Trump to bring in the loyalists to both Trump and his direction, but Trump got convinced to try to kiss and make up with the uniparty swamp.
“Tillerson has these rats scurrying down the ratlines and hawsers over at State.”
THIS Tillerson?
Tillerson Should Resign After Anti-Israel Terrorism Report
By Morton A. Klein and Elizabeth Berney, 28 Jul 2017
http://www.newsmax.com/Politics/rex-tillerson-state-department-israel-nikki-haley/2017/07/28/id/804429/
When Rex Tillerson was nominated for Secretary of State, the pro-Israel community harbored concerns about Tillerson’s reported closeness to Jim Baker, ties to Arab states such as terrorism-financier Qatar, and minimal knowledge about the Arab war against Israel. Still, we hoped those nagging concerns would prove unfounded, and that Tillerson would implement President Trump’s anti-terrorism, pro-Israel policies, and drain the notoriously biased-against-Israel swamp at the State Department.
Unfortunately, the State Department’s new anti-Semitic, Israel-bashing, falsehood-filled “Country Reports on Terrorism 2016” (issued July 2017) — which blames Israel for Palestinian Arab terrorism against innocent Israelis — has caused us to lose confidence in Secretary Tillerson’s ability to promote President Trump’s Mideast agenda.
President Trump’s courageous speech in Riyadh appropriately blamed extreme barbaric Islamist ideologies for terrorism targeting innocent Jews, Christians, and Muslims. The president sensibly insisted that we must “honestly confront the crisis of Islamist extremism and the Islamist terror groups it inspires” and “cut off the financial channels” that enable terrorism.
Thus, stopping worldwide terrorism requires honestly confronting Islamist genocidal incitement to murder Jews. There cannot be a double standard when Jews are the victims. Because every method that Palestinian Arabs “pioneered” for murdering Jews — suicide bombing, truck ramming — is copied by terrorists in Boston, Nice, and elsewhere.
We must honestly confront Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas’ Islamist incitement and unconscionable $355 million per year of “pay to slay” martyr payments incentivizing Palestinian Arabs to murder Jews.
Disturbingly, the State Department terrorism report never even mentions that the PA pays terrorists to murder Jews. Shockingly, the report instead re-characterizes the PA’s heinous payments as helpful “financial packages to Palestinian security prisoners . . . to reintegrate them into society.”
If we are serious about stopping terror, we must also honestly confront that Abbas has been inciting the ongoing deadly wave of terror by repeatedly rebroadcasting his Islamist call to spill blood to prevent Jews’ and Christians’ “filthy feet” from “defiling” Jewish and Christian sites in Jerusalem, that the Muslims are claiming as their own. We must honestly confront the PA leadership’s constant incitement against Israel and Jews in PA schools, children’s camps, mosques, newspapers and media.
Instead of confronting these issues, the State Department terrorism report lies. It whitewashes the PA, falsely asserts that explicit PA calls for violence are “rare” and that the PA “leadership generally does not tolerate it.” Congressman Peter Roskam (R-IL), in his July 20 letter to Tillerson, correctly called those assertions “demonstrably false.”
Congressman Roskam wrote: “The State Department report includes multiple findings that are both inaccurate and harmful to combating Palestinian terrorism . . . At the highest level, the Palestinian Authority (PA) leadership incites, rewards, and, in some cases, carries out terrorist attacks against innocent Israelis. In order to effectively combat terrorism, it is imperative that the United States accurately characterize its root cause — PA leadership. . . .”
Absurdly, instead of acknowledging that PA incitement causes Palestinian Arab terror, the State Department terrorism report instead wrongly blames “lack of hope in achieving statehood” (although Palestinian Arabs repeatedly rejected generous statehood offers in 2000, ’01, ’08); “Israeli settlement construction in the West Bank” (an excuse that says the very presence of Jews living in the historic, legally designated Jewish homeland justifies killing Jews); “settler violence” (although this is virtually non-existent); “the perception that the Israeli government was changing the status quo on the Haram Al Sharif/Temple Mount” (although PA President Abbas’s “filthy feet” incitement caused this false “perception”); and “IDF tactics that the Palestinians considered overly aggressive” (although IDF anti-terrorism methods are humane, reasonable, and necessary steps such as weapons checkpoints and arresting murderers).
The State Department report also woefully under-reports the number of Israelis murdered by Palestinian terrorists, and tries to turn incidents of Jewish teenagers painting graffiti into capital cases, while ignoring and downplaying the real capital cases of Palestinian Arabs murdering and maiming Jews. (Since the current wave of terror began in September 2015, Palestinian terrorists have murdered 52 Jews and Americans and wounded 789 Jews, and cause Israelis enormous stress simply walking the streets and going shopping).
Interestingly, the State Department report’s litany of falsehoods and false excuses for Palestinian Arab terrorism come straight from false anti-Israel UN reports, and an anti-Israel NGO that gives the UN false information. President Trump’s excellent Ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley has been pushing the UN to retract those very same false reports!
Notably, Secretary Tillerson was previously involved in denying and sanitizing the PA’s horrendous financial rewards to terrorists. At a June 13 Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing, Tillerson testified that he was informed that the PA had changed its pay-to-slay policy. PA officials immediately contradicted Tillerson’s testimony, and told Reuters that the PA’s “martyr” payments to terrorists “are not going to be stopped.”
In the wake of the fact that the PA is still paying Arabs to murder Jews, it is shocking that the State Department report still whitewashed PA payments that help drive terrorism.
We need a State Department that honestly confronts the PA’s genocidal Islamist ideology and incitement. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is incapable of leading such an effort and must be replaced.
Too many swamp creatures slithered into the Trump administration in the early days.
President Trump gave the GOPe a chance to come aboard and join the administration as he filled out his cabinet and staff.
As I see it he gave them a chance to make recommendations and went so far as to include them in his cabinet and inner circle.
He brought Prebus and others in as a peace offering to the GOPe but they just abused the opportunity.
Rather than work with President Trump to implement his agenda they have subverted his administration and tried to keep the GOPe in power.
They tried, and are still trying, to to wrench power away from the president, persue their own agenda and run their own parallel government.
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