{"id":11090,"date":"2021-02-10T19:59:11","date_gmt":"2021-02-11T03:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vinsuprynowicz.com\/?p=11090"},"modified":"2021-02-13T09:08:52","modified_gmt":"2021-02-13T17:08:52","slug":"personnel-is-policy-to-what-extent-was-trump-himself-to-blame-when-he-found-himself-surrounded-by-backstabbers-and-would-he-be-likely-to-do-better-a-second-time-around","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vinsuprynowicz.com\/?p=11090","title":{"rendered":"Personnel is policy. To what extent was Trump himself to blame when he found himself surrounded by backstabbers? And would he be likely to do better, a second time?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Personnel is Policy. To what extent is President Trump to blame for not bringing to Washington a strong cadre of bold, skilled, aggressively loyal supporters, instead allowing the Deep State Hive to constantly laugh behind his back as backstabbers from Chris Christie to Mitch McConnell told him the Senate would approve only appointees who would gleefully, well . . . stab him in the back, slow-walking and obstructing the very policies for which the American public elected him?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let’s assume for the moment adequate safeguards against massive election fraud (the kind with which the Dembolsheviks and their corporate allies stole the 2020 election from Trump despite his six-figure majorities in almost every battleground state) can be restored.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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(Time magazine admits corporate cabal stole the election and are now bragging about it; see:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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. . . or see . . . :<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/redstate.com\/jenniferoo\/2021\/02\/06\/is-it-all-unraveling-after-the-time-magazine-secret-cabal-piece-n323064<\/a> )<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Given that necessary premise, what are the chances that Donald Trump will have recruited such a cadre of loyal appointees to cover his back the NEXT time?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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What are the chances he’d arrive back in Washington with nominees & appointees fully briefed and geared up to replace the thousand (yes, literally a thousand) high-ranking Deep-Staters who need to be fired on his first full day back in office, sweeping clean the administrative offices of the DOJ and FBI and Pentagon, to begin with \u2014 and to indict and equip with orange jump-suits and leg irons the NEXT thousand sneering, plotting, disloyal Deep-State scum, the week after that?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For if a President have no power to fire ANY THOUSAND PEOPLE HE CHOOSES in the executive branch on the simple grounds that “I don’t trust ’em. I have no confidence in their loyalty to this adminstration and the stated goals on which we were elected,” then all we’re really electing is some kind of decorative figurehead, limited to dressing fancy, cutting ribbons, and serving sandwiches with the crusts cut off to visiting dignitaries, while the country is really run by Mark Zuckerberg, George Soros, Bill Gates, and a faceless cabal of New York bankers determined to short silver stocks and Gamestop, confiscate our pension funds, give us a laughing-stock military made-up of transsexual cross-dressers, destroy our energy industry on the premise that all the electricity and diesel fuel we need can be acquired from elves in hollow trees, and export what’s left of our industrial jobs along with our machine tools to their pals in Red China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Are we ready to accept that?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Mind you, wer’re not talking about “starting investigations” on Day One. We’re talking about opening the folder and saying, “We’ve done the research, here are the indictments, go arrest them.”) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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For without that, why bother? Why invite the same giant pack of treacherous bolshevik squirrels to get right back to their same old nut-cracking schemes? If there’s no price to be paid for Conspiracy to Overthrow the Duly Elected Government of the United States (and nothing concentrates the mind better than seeing your first dozen co-conspirators loosing their bowels as their legs kick the empty air below their gallows), they’re just going to smile and ask “Hey, cool. Do we get to bill time-and-a-half for this?”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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WAS DONALD TRUMP NAIVE? BETRAYED BY THOSE HE SHOULD HAVE BEEN ABLE TO TRUST? OR JUST TOO NICE A GUY TO DEPLOY THE BATTLE AXE?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A friend \u2013 and Trump supporter \u2013 wrote me recently: \u201cMy only regret is that (Trump) went into this expecting it to be as in business. Opponents competing for a contract, He got the job and then expected everyone else to make nice and to be able to negotiate and hand out sub contracts. Politics is a completely different ball game. The result was that he didn\u2019t drain anywhere near enough of the swamp fast enough, and kept expecting to be able to make a deal with the traitors. . . . He just kept trying. I really appreciate his perseverance, but in this case, it was misplaced.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I responded \u201cI believe you\u2019re right about Mr. Trump. I can\u2019t fault him for his single-minded focus on getting elected in 2016. (You couldn\u2019t win that kind of upset by working six- or even 10-hour days.) And that focus surely left him with little time to recruit a competent cohort to take to Washington with him (especially when the most qualified folks would have been reluctant to make any such commitment while the mass media were insisting Trump was a mere public-relations buffoon with no chance of winning.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cThe Decepticons then extorted some kind of deal to have input into his cabinet selections in exchange for not screwing him out of the nomination at the last minute in July,\u201d my response continued. \u201cSo I\u2019ll cut him some slack if in mid-November 2016 he suddenly realized he had hundreds (thousands?) of positions to fill, and (assuming the GOP party chiefs were on HIS side) turned for help to . . . Chris Christie? Mitch McConnell? Reince Priebus? Paul Ryan? Mitt Romney\u2019s sister?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cNegotiating to site a new hotel or other development, you know the land owner wants a high purchase price; the union guy wants to featherbed some overpaid guys you don\u2019t really need; the city councilman wants a \u201ccampaign contribution,\u201d the Planning and Zoning guys want to muscle you into building them a new elementary school and donating four acres for a park. But the common interest you can find is that at bottom they all want the project BUILT, because the land owner doesn\u2019t want to keep paying property tax on a vacant lot, the union guy doesn\u2019t want his guys to spend the next year sitting around the union hall, your new project will soon start paying city taxes, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cTrump clearly assumed the congresscritters would want carve-outs and set-asides for their favored constituencies, but assumed the underlying common ground was that everyone involved would want the average American worker\/voter\/family to be more prosperous, for the economy to boom, to stop having our young military people getting their legs blown off in dead-end foreign hellholes, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cDid it take two years for him to realize he was wrong? That the mere presence of ANY outsider who might gain control of \u2018his own\u2019 IRS and launch \u2018forensic audits,\u2019 proving a huge majority of congresscritters couldn\u2019t POSSIBLY have achieved their current net worth without massive bribes and payoffs \u2013 let alone someone who was going to negotiate PRO-AMERICAN trade deals that would cut off their kickbacks from Russia, Ukraine, Red China, screwing up the \u2018globalist\u2019 investment strategies of their REAL bosses — Donahue et al. at the U.S. Chamber \u2013 was enough in their minds to justify all-out domestic civil war?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cHow long did it really take to realize that to protect their ability to keep turning us into servant drones for Red China (in exchange for six-figure payoffs delivered through children, brothers, ex-spouses) they\u2019d actually be willing to organize a sneering, satanic cabal of state-socialist TV networks and \u201csocial media\u201d censors to demonize a real-estate developer from Queens (with a Jewish son-in-law, NO record of discrimination in his business enterprises, and in fact a history of substantial campaign contributions to LIBERAL DEMOCRATS) as the Grand Dragon of some kind of new, invisible Ku Klux Klan?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cHow long should it really have taken to realize these people were perfectly willing to DESTROY the American economy, DESTROY tens of thousands of small businesses, if by doing so they could get rid of the dreaded, NON-BOUGHT-OFF interloper? That they MAKE MONEY off dead-end foreign wars and couldn\u2019t give a damn if the male children of a bunch of ridiculous peasants out in flyover country get blown up with IEDs while their folks and their bucktooth kid sister back home sing hymns out of some John Ford movie and salute some stupid flag?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cTwo years? Maybe. You\u2019d think in his second two years he could\/should have swept cleaner with a much bigger axe. But of course Bill Barr kept telling him \u201cIt takes time; we\u2019ll round them up and indict them but it all takes time.\u201d While the Bush family swore up and down Bill Barr was a stand-up guy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump accomplishes things precisely because he concentrates his efforts on what CAN be done \u2013 China trade, slashing regulations, massaging the tax code to create rewards for moving jobs back into this country. And of course it was their plan to keep him endlessly encumbered with \u2018investigations,\u2019 even as McConnell et al. kept telling him the new-broom appointees he wanted would never get ratified by the Senate.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not all of Trump\u2019s hires sucked. Wilbur Ross, Steve Mnuchin and the China trade team were stellar. Peter Navarro and Kayleigh McEnany were strong. Mike Pompeo and others displayed normal levels of loyalty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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But the generals \u2013 who Trump must have presumed would display to-the-death loyalty to a commander-in-chief almost by reflex \u2013 Kelly, Mattis, Mark Milley \u2013 soon looked like they were trying out for the \u201ceverybody-sticks-in-a-knife\u201d scene in \u201cJulius Caesar.\u201d And if Jeff Sessions wasn\u2019t a traitor in disguise (the jury is still out) he must have been one of the weakest, most gullible Keebler elves ever to spend a full decade in Washington without learning to say \u201cThanks for advising me to place my testicles in that vice, Tasha. Always appreciate your help. By the way, Security is on the way; you\u2019ve got 15 minutes to load your stuff in a cardboard box and turn in your badge; you\u2019re fired. And if you give me any crap, I\u2019ll hold up your pension in litigation till a transgender astronaut walks on Mars.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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BACK-STABBING? INCOMPETENCE? BOTH?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Peter Navarro\u2019s current reports that Bill Barr\u2019s DOJ was slow-walking anything Trump wanted to do over the past year, while actively preparing the Joe Biden Day One Executive Order blizzard designed to ROLL BACK much of what Trump had accomplished \u2013 along with Patrick Byrne\u2019s reports of how disorganized Rudy Giuliani\u2019s attempt to push back against the massive 2020 vote fraud really was \u2013 are sobering.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Peter Navarro \u2013 Bill Barr DOJ worked on Joe Biden\/Bolshevik agenda even while Trump was still president:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/theconservativetreehouse.com\/2021\/02\/07\/sunday-talks-peter-navarro-talks-about-bill-barr-doj-working-to-advance-interests-of-joe-biden\/\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Patrick Byrne on how Team Trump legal effort to combat election fraud was bungled. (Sidney Powell and Michael Flynn come off well; Rudy Giuliani does not):<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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