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Old 07-05-2018, 04:28 PM   #12731 (permalink)
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Changing staff throughout a term is well precedented.
Nowhere near to this degree and the reasons behind the changes.

Comparing unprecedented Trump White House turnover with Bush, Obama | PolitiFact

After first year in office:

Trump 34%
Obama 9%
W Bush 6%

And it's not so much the turnover, but the reasons behind them. Mostly scandalous at least, and criminal at best.

But let's not forget crooked Hillary.
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Old 07-05-2018, 04:29 PM   #12732 (permalink)
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So should Trump have kept corrupt people in office?
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Old 07-05-2018, 04:33 PM   #12733 (permalink)
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Historically communist revolutions upset the status quo quite a bit more than a Supreme Court Justice but I'm sure you have the stomach for that.
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Old 07-05-2018, 04:33 PM   #12734 (permalink)
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Not vote for them. Mindblowing, huh?
Not voting just means letting things stay as they are = bad.
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Old 07-05-2018, 04:34 PM   #12735 (permalink)
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So should Trump have kept corrupt people in office?
Maybe not have hired them without proper vetting scrutiny in the first place?

I can already see the path you're going to go down here.

I have vivid memories of W Bush and Obama. Their shake-ups were mostly routine and not over the types of scandals we've seen with DJTs boys - and girls.
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Maybe not have hired them without proper vetting scrutiny in the first place?

I can already see the path you're going to go down here.

I have vivid memories of W Bush and Obama. Their shake-ups were mostly routine and not over the types of scandals we've seen with DJTs boys - and girls.
Maybe I'm confused, but when you bitterly point and laugh whenever one of them is fired, it sounds quite a bit like you'd rather he keep them in office. Hate boners aren't exactly rational I guess.
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Old 07-05-2018, 04:49 PM   #12737 (permalink)
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In other words: conform or else!



Maybe the cheap attempt to strongarm a nation is part of why she lost? Idk.
Could be. That and she thought she was entitled to be Queen of America.

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Maybe not have hired them without proper vetting scrutiny in the first place?

I can already see the path you're going to go down here.

I have vivid memories of W Bush and Obama. Their shake-ups were mostly routine and not over the types of scandals we've seen with DJTs boys - and girls.
Plus Bush and Obama were pretty loyal to their staff. I've never heard former staff ever say a bad word about either of them.
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Old 07-05-2018, 04:56 PM   #12738 (permalink)
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Scott Pruitt FINALLY fired. One of DJT's favorite lapdogs gets handed his walking papers - long overdue.

DJs been in office for less than 600 days. Anyone keeping tabs on how many of his inner circle have been fired, resigned, indicted, plead guilty, been under house arrest, etc.?

Unprecedented I tell ya.
^ I wonder how much this scumbag has cost America. Not just in his misuse of the US tax dollar, but for the cost of the 14 investigations that his abuse of office has generated.

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Changing staff throughout a term is well precedented.
^ What's unprecedented is the rate of turnover in the Trump admin:-

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According to calculations made by Kathryn Dunn Tenpas at Brookings, there has been a 43% attrition rate among senior staffers within the Trump administration. That's massively higher than any recent past president; Bill Clinton had the second highest first-year turnover, with 11%.
Given how Trump bragged about "getting the best people", two things are remarkable; (i) the people he got (ii) their inability to hold the office: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/...istration.html

^ Just from this list we have Flynn, Spicer, Porter, Price, Bannon, Scaramucci, Hicks - not exactly a roll of honour imo.
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What's unprecedented is the rate of turnover in the Trump admin:-
And that, on its face, is meaningless.

Does anybody remember making fun of conservatives for weeping over every non-issue in the Obama administration?
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^ I wonder how much this scumbag has cost America.
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