Trump Plucks Political Pros for White House Staff

[Right_in_Virginia]

Trump Plucks Political Pros for White House Staff
Real Clear Politics, Jan 5, 2017, Alexis Simendinger

Donald Trump made it official Wednesday: The incoming senior White House staff will have a deep bench of aides steeped in politics, including staff members pulled from the Republican National Committee and Trump’s campaign.

In 16 days, the businessman-turned-president will rely on a mix of mostly young political operatives and communicators whose focus will be on the agenda, messaging and business style he favored last year and in the weeks since his November victory.

Trump also added former aides who served President George W. Bush to help manage the operations of the executive office of the president, as well as presidential travel, security and event planning. And he turned to a top aide with experience in New Jersey politics under Gov. Chris Christie, Bill Stepien, to become White House political director. Christie fired Stepien, who was his deputy chief of staff during the George Washington Bridge scandal, but he later became national field director for Trump’s presidential campaign.

Few on the new team granted the coveted “assistant to the president” title have federal executive experience. Legislative know-how comes to the West Wing via the staff of Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama, an early Trump supporter and nominee to lead the Justice Department as attorney general, and aides to Vice President-elect Mike Pence and in the office of presidential personnel.

Incoming White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus, the departing head of the RNC, described the president-elect’s evolving White House team as “instrumental over the last several months, and in some cases years, in helping the president-elect."


Read more: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2017/01/05/trump_picks_political_pros_for_white_house_staff.html

[Frank Cannon]

Donald Trump made it official Wednesday: The incoming senior White House staff will have a deep bench of aides steeped in politics, including staff members pulled from the Republican National Committee and Trump’s campaign.

This could have been shortened to: "Trump signals business as usual. All swamp members hired."

[DCPatriot]

Donald Trump made it official Wednesday: The incoming senior White House staff will have a deep bench of aides steeped in politics, including staff members pulled from the Republican National Committee and Trump’s campaign.

This could have been shortened to: "Trump signals business as usual. All swamp members hired."

I don't believe it means that at all, @Frank Cannon

Since he's not a Washington insider politico....who else should he surround himself with?

Stop yelling "FIRE!!" for every little thing.   

[Frank Cannon]

I don't believe it means that at all, @Frank Cannon

Since he's not a Washington insider politico....who else should he surround himself with?

Stop yelling "FIRE!!" for every little thing.   

Yeah right. He was for draining the swamp before he decided to stock it. Gotcha.

[Right_in_Virginia]

Donald Trump made it official Wednesday: The incoming senior White House staff will have a deep bench of aides steeped in politics, including staff members pulled from the Republican National Committee and Trump’s campaign.

This could have been shortened to: "Trump signals business as usual. All swamp members hired."

Pffft @Frank Cannon   This means the CEO knows the administrative talent he's going to need to get his agenda implemented.

[corbe]

   He donated hundreds of thousands of gallons to the NY Swamp, and now we're suppose to believe he want's to drain the DC Swamp? 
   I got a stagecoach to catch to Reno, later.

 

[Formerly Once-Ler]

Donald Trump made it official Wednesday: The incoming senior White House staff will have a deep bench of aides steeped in politics, including staff members pulled from the Republican National Committee and Trump’s campaign.

This could have been shortened to: "Trump signals business as usual. All swamp members hired."

Are these the same swamp builders that screwed up Washington DC so bad only Trump could fix it?

Zim: I put the fires out.
Tallest Purple: You made them worse.
Zim: Worse... or better?

[Right_in_Virginia]

   He donated hundreds of thousands of gallons to the NY Swamp, and now we're suppose to believe he want's to drain the DC Swamp? 
 

What the heck are you talking about?  Do you even know @corbe ? 

[corbe]

What the heck are you talking about?  Do you even know @corbe ? 

   The Campaign contributions he made in NY and the nation because he's such a business genius, you try to keep up here @Right_in_Virginia

[Right_in_Virginia]

   The Campaign contributions he made in NY and the nation because he's such a business genius, you try to keep up here @Right_in_Virginia

Again, you fail to make any sense @corbe   Keep it up ... we need comic relief.

[Formerly Once-Ler]

Again, you fail to make any sense @corbe   Keep it up ... we need comic relief.

Pretty pathetic that you think we all just woke up this morning with no memories of the last year and a half.

Ya get it RiV?

[corbe]

Again, you fail to make any sense @corbe   Keep it up ... we need comic relief.

   Are you implying @Right_in_Virginia my music suxs?