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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe Blame Game Consumes the White House
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With President Trumps sweeping agenda hitting the rocks as he edges toward the 100-day mark, top aides, political allies and donors are embroiled in a furious round of finger-pointing over who is at fault, Politico reports.
The recriminations extend far beyond the implosion of the GOPs Obamacare repeal on Friday. Senior aides are lashing each other over their inability to stem a never-ending tide of negative stories about the president. There is second-guessing of the RNCs efforts to mobilize Trumps electoral coalition on behalf of his legislative priorities. At the EPA, a top official quit recently amid accusations the department is failing to advance the presidents campaign promises. And one of Trumps most generous benefactors, Rebekah Mercer, has expressed frustration over the direction of the administration.
This account of White House infighting is based on interviews with more than two dozen Trump aides, confidants and others close to his administration They described a distracting and toxic atmosphere, with warring power centers blaming one another for an ever-growing list of setbacks. The dysfunction has further paralyzed an administration struggling to deliver on its blunt promises of wholesale change.
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The Blame Game Consumes the White House (Original Post)
applegrove
Mar 2017
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gratuitous
(82,849 posts)1. A bunch of egotistical political neophytes who don't know what they're doing
And you say the atmosphere in the White House is toxic? Who could have possibly seen this coming?
BumRushDaShow
(129,470 posts)2. They are only in the positions that they are in because of
1.) Multidecadal gerrymandering and voter suppression
2.) Dark money billionaires
3.) Inviting everything that dwelt under the rocks and in the sewers to vote for them
4.) Russian assistance
Each of these has "interest groups" associated that belong under their "big tent" and each selfishly wants their pound of flesh.