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Mike Allen 1 hour ago
Former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, a Republican, writes in his forthcoming memoir "Let Me Finish," out Jan. 29 that President Trump filled his administration with "riffraff" instead of canny players who could help him overcome his impulses and shaky grasp of how government works.
Donald so urgently needed the right people around him and a solid structure in place. ... Far too often, hes found himself saddled with the riffraff. ...
Instead of high-quality, vetted appointees for key administration posts, he got the Russian lackey and future federal felon Michael Flynn as national security adviser. He got the greedy and inexperienced Scott Pruitt as administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency.
He got the high-flying Tom Price as health and human services secretary. He got the not-ready-for-prime-time Jeff Sessions as attorney general, promptly recusing himself from the Justice Departments Russian-collusion probe. He got a stranger named Rex Tillerson as secretary of state. ...
He got the Apprentice show loser Omarosa Manigault in whatever Omarosas job purported to be. (I never could figure that one out.) ... Too few Kellyanne Conways. A boatload of Sebastian Gorkas. Too few Steven Mnuchins.
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jberryhill
(62,444 posts)UniteFightBack
(8,231 posts)OnDoutside
(19,908 posts)if he's "qualified" that's a pathetic standard
also too: rump didn't hire Chris Christie...
OnDoutside
(19,908 posts)shanny
(6,709 posts)EffieBlack
(14,249 posts)If they're riffraff (which they definitely are), what does that say about him?
NewJeffCT
(56,827 posts)or Chief of Staff.
Tom Rinaldo
(22,911 posts)And his grudges with the Trump team are readily apparent. He got fired (likely by Kushner) from heading up the transition He wanted to be AG himself so he calls Sessions "not ready for prime time" etc.
But of course he is correct about the type of people Trump picked even if he is wrong about someone like Munchin being a "good" exception. And there is no logical reason on earth why he can let Trump off the hook and not blast him as being the worst of the lot for not even being able to differentiate between good appointments and horrific ones, no matter what standard Christie uses.
Golden Raisin
(4,600 posts)maxrandb
(15,192 posts)Telling us what we already know?
He can go fuck himself sideways with a hard cover first edition copy of Atlas Shrugged... the worthless piece of amphibian shit.
SammyWinstonJack
(44,129 posts)50 Shades Of Blue
(9,777 posts)Like calls to like! These are Trump's own people. They're all birds of the same venal, criminal, repellant feather!