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struggle4progress

(118,313 posts)
Sun Feb 19, 2017, 10:36 PM Feb 2017

Thin Skin Keeping Him From Staffing Government

KEVIN DRUM
FEB. 19, 2017 5:07 PM

... Tillerson's choice of Elliott Abrams to be his deputy at the State Department was vetoed by the White House. Abrams had once said some bad things about Donald Trump ...

... the deputies .. often really run things, and Trump has only managed to name three out of 15 candidates ...

... Trump has no idea what he's doing, and his staff is too busy with Trump's thin skin and chaotic management style to find qualified deputies that are acceptable to him ...

Trump has always had a pretty small set of people acceptable to him, and now a shrinking number of experienced players are finding Trump acceptable to them ...


http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2017/02/trumps-thin-skin-keeping-him-staffing-federal-government

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