Trump Slashes Lobbyists From Presidential Transition Team

Posted On 16 Nov 2016

After taking some heat from both sides for the makeup of his presidential transition team, Donald Trump defended himself on 60 Minutes. Confronted over the degree of “swampiness” in his own team, Trump shrugged and said it was virtually impossible for him to conduct the transition without the help of D.C. lobbyists.

On Tuesday, however, Trump apparently demanded some changes. His Vice President-elect, Mike Pence, has taken over for Chris Christie, and immediately began pruning the advisory panel. The first to go: Washington lobbyists, most of whom were brought onto the team by the New Jersey governor. Whether the purge was focused on clearing out the old D.C. guard or just Christie loyalists is unclear. It may amount to the same thing, either way.

While the overhaul is music to the ears of Trump voters who want to see the billionaire make good on his promise to “drain the swamp,” critics have begun to question the pace of the transition operation. With the clock ticking rapidly, many veteran political observers have noted that the Trump team is well behind where they need to be at this point in the transition. There’s plenty of time, true, but it isn’t something that can be ignored indefinitely.

On Tuesday, for instance, White House spokeswoman Brandi Hoffine said the Obama administration is still waiting for the transition team to sign the required documents allowing U.S. officials to begin sharing sensitive information with Trump’s people. Organizations like the Pentagon and the CIA have reportedly not yet been in contact with the president-elect or his team.

Trump has denied reports that his transition is in “disarray,” taking a shot Wednesday at the New York Times.

“The failing @nytimes story is so totally wrong on transition. It is going so smoothly,” Trump wrote on Twitter.

As for specific appointments, Trump’s son, Eric Trump, told reporters Wednesday that we could “likely” see several cabinet appointments announced by the end of the day. A few concrete nominations would go a long way towards diffusing stories of chaos.

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Kim Graves

This is just another left leaning bullshit newsite seriously talking out of both sides of your mouth! Most of this article is false and from cnn or abc fucking pos asswipes
Carole Moore

Gee Kim Graves, you kiss your mother with that mouth???
- Robert Baird
  
  Probably your father
  - Texascat
    
    Snicker snicker!
- charles becker
  
  GO lay down by your dish.
RICH

Nothing printed, said or even thought by the New York Times has any credibility after the way the ‘misrepresented’ the election ! ! A lying liberal rag….. IMHO.
- AKLady2015
  
  Name calling. I am so not impressed.
  - Daniel Mount
    
    Hay Crooked Hillary are you still trying to win a loosing Battle??? Trump will Put you away for a big trial and the lethal Injection for you.
    - AKLady2015
      
      TWO DAYS AGO, Trump said that he had no intention of pressing for an investigation into Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server or the financial operations of her family’s foundation.
      PAY ATTENTION.
junkmailbin

actually, the trump team is ahead of some presidents and behind others. The iportant thing is he picks the right person for the right job. His predecessors had their hacks already lined up for their bone.
Walter Flatt

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PRAY THAT THIS DOES NOT HAPPEN, BUT GET READY, PRESIDENT ELECT TRUMP, BE VERY CAREFUL, WE HAVE WORKED TO HARD TO LOSE YOU NOW.

FROM A KOREAN WAR VET 51/53, A REG. DEM. ALL MY LIFE, BUT I VOTED FOR TRUMP.

DONT JUST LIKE THIS SEND IT TO ALL YOU KNOW. WE MAY BE IN FOR SOME ROUGH TIMES.

I BELIEVE WE HAVE BEEN SET UP FOR A TRY AT A MUSLIM INVASION OF THIS COUNTRY BY, HILLIARY, OBAMA, KERRY, SORROS AND THE BIASED MEDIA. READ ALL THE WHYS BELOW.

IF YOU READ ALL THE BELOW YOU MIGHT WAKE UP. IF YOU ARE FOR THE BELOW, THEN YOU ARE TRYING TO DESTROY AMERICA.

WHY ISN’T A LAW BEING ENFORCED BARRING ALL MUSLIMS FROM THIS COUNTRY. THIS LAW WAS PASSED IN 1952.

WHY DO YOU THINK ANYTHING OBAMA HAS DONE IS LEGAL, HE HAS CONFESSED TO BEING A MUSLIM ON NAVTION WIDE TV. EVERYTHING HE HAS SIGNED, OR ORDERED IN 8 YEARS IS ILLEGAL.

WHY HAS HILLIARY HAD A MUSLIM FROM A RADICAL FAMILY AS HER TOP AIDE FOR 10 YEARS, HUMA COULD BE A PERFECT PIPELINE TO PASS SECRETS TO THE MUSLIM WORLD.

WHY HAS OBAMA SURROUNDED HIMSELF WITH MUSLIMS ANOTHER PERFECT PIPELINE TO PASS SECRETS. HE HAS DECLARED HIMSELF A MUSLIM.

WHY DOES THE BIASED NEWS MEDIA SAY HE IS NOT A MUSLIM, WHEN I HAVE A LIST OF WHERE 34 TIMES HE HAS EITHER HELPED THEM OR SAID HE WAS ONE.

WHY GET MAD AT PUTIN, HE SAID THAT THERE WAS NO PLACE IN RUSSIA FOR ANYONE THAT WOULD NOT FOLLOW THEIR LAW AND SPEAK THEIR LANGUAGE, THEY WOULD HAVE TO GO TO A COUNTRY THAT DID.

WHY HAS HILLIARY, OBAMA, KERRY AND THE BIASED NEWS MEDIA DONE EVERYTHING THEY CAN TO HELP THE RADICAL MUSLIMS.

WHY DID THIS ADMINSTRATION TRY AND BUY UP ALL AMMO?

WHY TRADE 5 TERRIOST FROM CUBA FOR ONE TRAITOR?

WHY TRY AND TAKE OUR GUNS? HITLER DID, & HISTORY TELLS US WHAT HAPPENED THERE.

WHY ALLOW A MINIMUM OF 36 MUSLIM CAMPS HERE IN THE STATES? MOST CLOSE TO MILITARY BASES. I PERSONALLY VERIFIED THE ONES IN SHAWNEE NATIONAL PARK, IN IL. AND THE ONE AT DOVEER, TN. AND THE FEMA CAMP IN EAST KY.

WHY ARE THERE 5 MUSLIM CAMPS IN N. VIRGINIA, CLOSE TO DC? ARE THEY TO TAKE WASHINGTON?

WHY BUILD A FEMA CAMP IN EVERY STATE, SOME MORE THAN ONE, AT TAX PAYERS EXPENSE, WITH ARMED GUARDS? ARE THEY TO HOLD MUSLIMS?

WHY ARE THEY BRINGING THOUSANDS OF YOUNG MUSLIMS HERE?

WHY IS THE TAX PAYER HAVING TO FEED, CLOTH & HOUSE THE HUNDREDS OF THOUSAND OF MUSLIMS BEING BROUGHT HERE?

WHY GIVE THE THOUSANDS OF MUSLIMS BROUGHT IN FREE HEALTH CARE, SPENDING THOUSANDS FOR HOSPITAL CARE?

WHY ARE THE ILLEGALS BEING TREATED BETTER THAN OUR VETERANS.

WHY STOP THE TANK AND PLANE SHIPPMENT TO EGYPT, WHEN THEIR ARMY KICKED THE RADICALS OUT?

WHY DID OUR GOVERNMENT SEND BILLIONS OF DOLLARS TO HELP THE RADICALS IN IRAN, A COUNTRY OUT TO DESTROY US?

WHY ARE WE SENDING BILLIONS TO ARAB COUNTRIES, AND LETING OUR COUNTRY GO TO POT?

WHY DONT THEY ENFORCE THE LAW BARRING ALL MUSLIMS FROM THIS COUNTRY?

WHY IS THE MUSLIM MAJOR IN TEXAS LIVING THAT KILLED 14 SOLDIERS AND WOUNDED A LOT MORE?

WHY ARE THEY RELEASING ALL MUSLIMS IN CUBA TO GO BACK INTO ACTION TO KILL OUR SOLDIERS?

WHY DONT WE HANG ALL MUSLIMS CAUGHT AND BURY THEM WITH PIG PARTS, LIKE GENERAL PERSHING DID IN THE PHILLIPENS? HE STOPPED A MUSLIM UPRISING BY DOING JUST THAT.

WHY WAS OBAMA ALLOWED TO SWEAR IN CARLOYN WALKER AS JUDGE IN BROOKLIN USING THE QURAN?

WHY ALLOW ILLEGALS TO FLOOD OUR COUNTRY WHEN THEY COST MORE PER YEAR THAN THE IRAQ WAR.

WHY SEND BILLIONS TO MUSLIM COUNTRIES TRYING TO KILL US.

YOU SAY THAT A MUSLIM TRY AT A TAKEOVER IS IMPOSSIBLE, I CAN TAKE 100 WELL ARMED PEOPLE AND TAKE ANY BASE IN 1 HOUR, OUR TROOPS ARE NOT ARMED.

BETTER COAT ALL YOU AMMO WITH PIGS BLOOD OR GREASE, LET THE WORLD KNOW YOU ARE DOING SO.

THE LAST WHY, WHY DONT THE BIASED NEWS MEDIA REPORT ALL THIS??? COULD THEY NOT BE FOR THE INVASION”

TRUMP IS NOW THE PRESIDENT, SO, GET ON BOARD AND HELP HIM STRAIGHTEN THIS MESS OUT.
- Ralph Shipler
  
  Quit shouting pls
  - Wcgraybill
    
    Get all of the damn muslim slime out of America And Obama also.
    - AKLady2015
      
      Religious bigotry in a nation founded upon religious freedom.
      
      YOu insult everything our Founders fought and dies for.
      
      Oh, and for your information, Islam was part of America before ti became a Nation. Here is a sample of Muslim contributors:
      
      A Sample of Historic Contributors:
      
      Crispus Attucs, Yarrow Mamout, Estevanico, Norsereddin, “Hi Jolly”, Abdulrahman Ibrahim Ibn Sori, Ayuba Suleiman Diallo, Omar Ibn Said, Bampett Muhammad, Yusuf Ben Ali, Peter Buckminster,
      
      A Sample of Modern Contributors:
      
      Fazlur Rahman Khan, Shahid Khan, Ayub Ommaya, Ernest Hamwi, Shaquille O’Neal, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Farah Pandith, Ahmed Zewail, Aziz Ansari
      - Robert Baird
        
        WOW! Until I read this drivel, I just assumed you were ignorant. Now I KNOW you’re stupid as hell….
      - AKLady2015
        
        ! Thank you.
        
        Your input is always welcome
        
        It says so much about you.
  - Katrina
    
    Well, in the gentleman’s defense, he did say he’s a Korean War Vet, meaning he’s older, so he might do all CAPS due to his eyesight. Also, he’s most likely not as astute using a computer as us younger folk might be…no offense intended, Mr. Flatt. Hats off to him for getting online and voicing his opinion!
    
    Thank you for your service; my father served in the Navy during the Korean War as well.
    - Jacque McBride
      
      Way to go Katrina ! 🙂
  - Robert Baird
    
    IF YOU CAN’T HANDLE TRUTH, RALPH……TURN YOUR PHONE OFF! FOR ME….WALTER MADE HIS COMENT EASY TO READ…..THANKS, WALTER! I UNDERSTOOD EVERYTHING YOU SAID AND DIDN’T HEAR A SOUND!
    - Agapao13
      
      Are you hard of hearing?
      - Robert Baird
        
        NO!!!! Did you have a lot of imaginary friends when you were growing up? Did you hear voices speaking to you when no one else around heard a thing?? Did your Mom and Dad keep you locked up in the closet a lot when you were growing up? (I’m thinuking that if you actually heard something when you read my reply. they may have let you out too soon.). Heavy drinking can also cause the kind of problem you seem to have! Have you ever considered suicide? If these problems you’re having persist it might be worth a try!
      - Agapao13
        
        Who told you about my life? I thought my life was my secret. Wow, u r so good at put downs – NOT! oops.
      - Robert Baird
        
        You really do have a reading problem don’t you? Those were questions not statements.
      - Agapao13
        
        Nothing better to do n life? So sad.
      - Robert Baird
        
        You’re sad alright
      - AKLady2015
        
        You are childish, without a doubt.
      - Robert Baird
        
        You are ignorant without a doubt!
      - AKLady2015
        
        Yet, another childish insult.
      - AKLady2015
        
        So immature.
      - Robert Baird
        
        So ignorant!
      - AKLady2015
        
        Yes, you are. So nice of you to admit it.
      - AKLady2015
        
        Go play with uou own age group.
      - Robert Baird
        
        Sorry…..I enjoy playing with immature fools!
      - AKLady2015
        
        Well then you should go find some to play with. Youj are thw only immature fool on this site. Well for the time. There may be a few more later.
      - Robert Baird
        
        You’re working out just fine, fool…..
      - AKLady2015
        
        Thank you.
        
        Your input is always welcome
        
        It says so much about you.
      - eruebsamen
        
        Sometimes it is easier to read the larger words, get over it, and get get on with real life.
    - AKLady2015
      
      You are rude and childish. Pkease go away.
      - Robert Baird
        
        Maybe you should go away….I’m here to stay!
  - Doodlebug
    
    WOW! Did his all caps hurt your eyes? Don’t be a wuss. He was very pointedly trying to get his message across and did so. You know the thing about these threads is that you can just skip over the ones that hurt you eyes……
    - Ralph Shipler
      
      Do not condensend.
      - Doodlebug
        
        Indeed sir, how about you not be a snowflake. As others stated some people write in all caps for reasons other than “shouting”. The problem with “social” media is that not everyone is social.
      - Ralph Shipler
        
        Indeed, especially those that message in all caps or have nothing more creative to do than to condensend. Typing in all caps is not “socially” acceptible.
      - Robert Baird
        
        Did your parents have any children that lived?
      - Agapao13
        
        How old r u? That phrase goes back to the 60’s.
      - Robert Baird
        
        Older than you snowflake
      - Robert Baird
        
        Are those your rules? If they are, you can stick them WHERE THE SUN DON’T SHINE!
      - Agapao13
        
        U r older. So sad.
      - Agapao13
        
        I m so devistated.
      - Doodlebug
        
        maybe you shouldn’t be so critical of others responses since your spelling is atrocious and you name call and you are condescending. Just sayin’.
      - Agapao13
        
        Doodling must give u pleasure – oh well.
      - Agapao13
        
        So r u, what am I. U r old enuf 4 dat 1 r u not?
      - Robert Baird
        
        2 y’s u r
        2 y’s u b
        I c u r 2 y’s 4 me
      - Doodlebug
        
        What ever that jibberish is I have no idea. I do not use Ebonics or snowflake shorthand words. As for being a Hillary fan; that would be a resounding NO ( just so you know-that was a shout). I do believe in being civil even when others such as yourself are not.
      - Robert Baird
        
        I think he means DILAPIDATED and CONSTIPATED
      - Robert Baird
        
        There’s always one on these sites isn’t there doodlebug? If they’re not trying to correct everybody’s spelling and grammar, they’ve got this imaginary thing going on where they actually believe they can hear what we type!!
      - Doodlebug
        
        Indeed. Not saying Agapao13 is a malcontent but he sure has tried to pick a fight with you and me both.
      - Agapao13
        
        Pick a fight – u must be a Hillary fan trying reverse logic.
- Frank629
  
  walter SHOUT THIS OUT ALL YOU WANT your post is so true .and in caps I AGREE IN EVERYHING IN IT AND SHOUT IT OUT TO THE WHOLE COUNTRY AMEN.
  - Texascat
    
    Shout loud enough and often and we may just wake up some Deadocrats.
    - AKLady2015
      
      YOu just elected a know-nothing. Who will be the real President pulling the puppet strings?
      - mary murphy
        
        Hopefully, not George Soros.
      - AKLady2015
        
        The Koch were part of both the Nazi and Soviet machine – built refineries for the Nazi.
        
        Daddy Koch was a founder of the NYC Chapter of the KKK. That NC riot he was arrested at was a protest against Catholics on thw NYC police force.
        
        Grandpa Koch thought so highnly of women, he owned a whore house in the Yukon.
        
        Soros was never part of either the Soviet or the Nazi machine. He has never owned a whore house. He has never belonged to the KKK.
      - Francisco Sperandeo
        
        Hey HILLARY, YOU LOST! Now just sit on the side and let us do our thing! You had 8 years to ruin this country! Now it’s our turn and we will let the Nation decide in 4 years how we did! As for You Losing and BILL JUMPING UP AND DOWN like a little school girl that was just asked to the prom by the Football QB when they thought the election was won, I have only one thing to say, LOL LOL LMAO LOL LOL, RMFAO, LOL LOL BLAH HA HA HA , LOL LOL LOL!!!!! ROTF, LOL LOL!!!! Sorry could not help it! If Trump does not do another thing that video is burned in my brain! That and the look on Trumps face the night at the dinner when ODUMBASS attacked him relentlessly over and over! He as the Japanese Admiral said after Pearl Harbor, AWOKE A SLEEPING GIANT TO A GREAT RESOLVE! That night I guarantee you was the night Donald J Trump promised himself he would bring all his forces to DRAIN THE SWAMP!! The worse thing in the world to do is take a HIGHLY MOTIVATED, SUCCESSFUL, WELL FUNDED, SMART. DETERMINED, POWERFUL, AND FOCUSED MAN and tell him he, CANNOT, SHOULD NOT, WILL NOT, AND WILL NEVER BE PRESIDENT and then TOP it off by PISSING HIM OFF and COMPLETELY INSULTING HIM in front of millions of people! At which I’m GLAD that ODUMBASS did that or we would have that idiot Biotch with her Pediphile Husband chasing interns around the White House finishing the J O B that O started some 8 years ago! So as I leave this post I will do so with, LOL LOL LOL LOL BLAH HA HA!!! Okay, just one more L O L AMEN!!! PS: as you can tell I’m a tad bit tickled HILLARY ROTTEN CLINTON LOST!
      - AKLady2015
        
        You need to practice more, you have not yet gotten the adult part down.
      - Francisco Sperandeo
        
        Ok, LOL LOL LOL!!!!
      - AKLady2015
        
        Thank you.
        Your input is always welcome
        It says so much about you.
      - Francisco Sperandeo
        
        Sorry, but I’ve been laughing since November 8th!!! My bad! LOL LOL LMAO!
      - Daniel Mount
        
        Now Hillary you know that Trump is a man that gets things done. He will be the best President ever to be in the White House. I have Told Mr. Trump that he needs to have an exorcism done on the White House to get rid of Obama’s and your evil spirits out of the White House and to have the entire place Blessed with Holy water and incense.
      - AKLady2015
        
        Maybe you should look at a bit closer at history.
        
        Every businessman who has been President has been a huge failure at the job.
        
        They are: Truman, Carter,. Bush II, Bush I, Hoover, Harding, and Coolidge
      - Ronney
        
        Amen
      - disqus_2AF1QOhOSp
        
        We know Soros and other socialist elites pulled the strings for everything obama illegally did. I was a democrat until Gore ran and I woke up to what a bunch of liars, cheaters and communists trying to destroy the freedoms of this country. By your statements, you are – which one?
      - AKLady2015
        
        Neither.
        I am an Independent.
        Oh, and foolish one, Obama has done nothing illegal. Soneone is taking advantage of you.
      - Ronney
        
        You stupid bitch, you better pray to God you never meet me.
      - AKLady2015
        
        Threats rom the ignorant.
        Why am I not impressed?
    - poppopdiesel
      
      Nahhhh that won’t happen. They’ve been their RIP VAN WINKLE sleep for so long .It’s doubtful they will ever be cooperative with PRESIDENT TRUMP…… SHOULD THEY WAKE UP
  - rome44
    
    He didn’t say anything he is just asking. He is a contradiction in terms. He makes the conclusion preceded with “WHY” Personally I don’t know the answers to any of his questions, perhaps if we ask him to give us the answers [if he knows them] we would appreciate the clarification of his charges.
- Steve Chandler
  
  thanks for that Walter
- Eric Hartman
  
  THE SKY IS FALLING! THE SKY IS FALLING!!
  - AKLady2015
    
    It is really falling. Trump has ZERO government education and experience.
    
    There will be a puppeteer in the back ground.
    
    My cousin, the Alabama Bigot Sessions is just one of them
- Hgeyer
  
  So much BULL$HIT I wouldn’t know where to start… Trump ISN’T president till Jan. 20th! There IS NO LAW barring Muslims from this country. …. I haven’t got time to correct ALL your ridiculous statements. Just suffice it to say EVERYTHING YOU SAID IS A LIE!
- bill thompson
  
  Obama enacted surrender complete upon taking office. Exactly the plan if we were defeated in a war. But no shots were fired.
  - AKLady2015
    
    Nonsense.
    - bill thompson
      
      every action, every appointment, every deal was about surrender of American interests, ideology, and power. right down to the internet hand off. see NONE of it was suppose to work, it was only to transfer power.
      - AKLady2015
        
        Congress makes the laws. Congress approves treaties.
        Suggest you check into the laws which already existed when Obama took office.
      - rome44
        
        Haven’t you picked up the mental processes at work here. These people are not rational they live in a make believe world of their own making. it doesn’t matter what facts you present them with they can’t or refuse to process.
        Empirical evidence to them lives in another dimension.
      - AKLady2015
        
        I agree.
  - rome44
    
    This is bizarros world where everything is upside down. Also could be hypothetical world where anything goes, whichever it is reality does not live here.
- AKLady2015
  
  Trump will be a puppet. Someone will have to tell him when to sit and stand — he has ZERO knowledge of government
- rome44
  
  For someone who took the trouble to print this long tirade, you aren’t actually telling us anything of value. I counted 28 “Whys” that to me means you don’t know anything seems you want for us to give you the answers.
  I have a suggestion for you; perform your own due diligence get the facts and present them to us. List your sources and bibliographies for verification for those who are inclined to verify factual content.
  - AKLady2015
    
    Excellent.
- Ronney
  
  I recently had one try to stair me down at a pilot truck stop on I 79 in W/VA. I reached into my truck, an grabbed my USMC cover and my 45. Ounce the coward seen me, he almost rolled the truck over getting out of the parking lot. If our government isn’t going to do anything about them I will. It’s relatively easy to get a load of pig blood an plaster their neighborhood.
MaggieGal (marpel)

Given the length of time other new administrations have taken to start to announce cabinet members (many well into December), DJT is not behind at all! This is another example of misinformation that the media likes to publish to try to put the President Elect in a bad light. Hey, guys, the people are much smarter than this!
- siridh
  
  They’re also trying to push. There are a few that need to be announced early on to start getting access to intelligence briefings etc; but everything else can stay behind the scenes (already working) until the new year. They need to get the right people not do it quickly.
- Hgeyer
  
  No they aren’t…
Daze Inde

I don’t care about their “stories of chaos.” What the papers and news report or think is of no concern to Trump supporters, like myself. We don’t believe media. The only chaos, is in the communist camp, because we actually elected a real American.Their criticism of Trump, their reports are just more leftist propaganda. We don’t care. We need Breitbart, infowars and/or other online sources to branch out state to state with a new, credible newspaper. Won’t be long before the leftist press goes bankrupt. The .1% they cater to won’t be enough for them to persist.
- Hgeyer
  
  Your right wing propaganda web sites will never replace actual reporting … apparently more than half of Americans KNOW breitbart and infowars only post the worst form of paranoid unamerican bullshit!
  - Ralph Shipler
    
    It is called “the truth”. Too bad you cannot recognize the difference. You and Obama and Hillary; the great deceivers.
  - Robert Baird
    
    I think you’re confusing those sites with CBS, ABS, NBS, CNNBS, MSNBS and all the other MSM ‘BS’ sites
    - Hgeyer
      
      I “fact check” things so NO that not a possibility. You should try fact checking too you will be amazed all all the bullshit in your brain that isn’t true…
JIM DALLY

there are positions that “OBOZO” never filled.
Cadfael

Obama is railing against false news? The New York Crimes should be the first recipient of his wrath then! They have falsely reported about Trump since day one and never found a conservative they could not make up a series of whoppers against.
D Hall

i thought that the empty suit said there would be NO lobbyists in HIS administration,i guess he LIED about that too
Steven Coy

TRUMP WORKS AT HIS OWN PACE AND THE PRESS (JOKE} SHOULD WORRY ABOUT RETAINING THEIR PRESS CREDENTIALS TO THE SEMI WHITE HOUSE AND GOOD RIDDANCE TO THE NOT BLACK HALF BREED SUNNI MUSLIM MARXIST OBAMINATION WHO IS NOT MAN ENOUGH TO BE BLACK BUT HE IS A TERRORIST TRAITOR WHO SHOULD BE TRIED FOR TREASON FOR ARMING EVERY MUSLIM TERRORIST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD ALONG WITH HITLERY THE ESPIONAGE AGENT !!!!!!!! VIETNAM VET
- Eric Hartman
  
  “THE PRESS (JOKE} SHOULD WORRY ABOUT RETAINING THEIR PRESS CREDENTIALS TO THE SEMI WHITE HOUSE “. Does ‘freedom of the press’ ring any bells? First amendment if you care to look it up.
  - Retired
    
    There is no freedom of the press when it is controlled By Democrats and a handful of owners ??
    - Eric Hartman
      
      Precisely! BUT it is not owned or controlled by GOVERNMENT (Trump) which Steven Coy seemed to be implying, which would be unconstitutional. Were you aware that Trump on the campaign BANNED reporters he didn’t like? That, sir, is scary to me and it should be to you too. As far as “liberal Media” Comcast owns MSNBC for example. Murdoch FOX and Washington Post (which he operated at a loss for years just for the political influence. Are murdoch and the muck-de-mucks DEMOCRATS? I hardly think so. These are just a couple of examples. Do you really think The owners are LIBERAL?? MSNBC fired Ed Schultz as I recall because he was too liberal. And Ed Schultz really isn’t that far left. Sure, the powers to be of media ownership allow just enough “liberal” to appear liberal.
      - Retired
        
        Every President and Elect have done it for decades, you just were not paying attention. Are you with the Demo Rats or Independents
      - Eric Hartman
        
        http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/complicated-history-between-press-and-presidency-180959406/
        
        No comment on the “liberal press”? I am a progressive Democrat, an FDR democrat, back to the roots of being the “working man’s party” if you will. I am certainly not a Clinton neoliberal corporatist warhawk.
      - Retired
        
        Those days of the Democrat party are gone, the only ones the democrats really care about is the government Employees as they are the biggest block of voters.The Democrats have DESERTED the working class and elderly.
- Robert Baird
  
  Whoa, Steven!!! Well said and I couldn’t agree more!
  From a Vietnam era Vet to a Vietnam Vet!!!
Garys_opinion

“After taking some heat from both sides for the makeup of his presidential transition team,”
Trump shouldn’t worry at all about that, the Democrats are really desperate, they’re going to give him a hard time no matter what he does, or doesn’t do. Hell, if the election was any indication, they’ll make stuff up.
- Cherie Lynn Davis
  
  They’ve been doing that throughout his campaign. We saw that with the women coming out of the woodwork to accuse him of sexual abuse. As soon as he told them he was going to take them to court, they disappeared!
The Help

I do not see the names of the people let go just Chris Christie. No proof of actually happening without name to check against transition team list.
- reagangs
  
  Don’t worry about the minor/small stuff. Old Don knows where the path is.
Cherie Lynn Davis

Well, I am pretty darned sure President Elect Trump won’t be naming any Czars!! I wonder what the “Old Grey Lady” will have to say about that? The Media, as we once knew it, has disintegrated into nothing but a puppet, Democrat propaganda machine spewing nothing but lies and subterfuge. That is another swamp that needs to be drained because they don’t print the truth any more. It is a wonder the American people had enough information to decide who to vote for on November 8. It sure wasn’t because the Media tried to keep them informed! I believe the Internet and word of mouth did what the Media wouldn’t and pretty much proved them to be impotent factors, soon to be relegated to the trash heap where they belong!
- Robert Baird
  
  Cherie, that’s exactly why obama wanted to give away the Internet. To those idiots it’s only free speech if they agree with it….when WE THE PEONS find out the truth their sweet little apple carts tend to get turned over! Welcome home Donald J. Trump! Godspeed to you!!!!
  - Cherie Lynn Davis
    
    Couldn’t agree with you more!!
Egor von Johnson

Patience is a virtue. Lobbyist`s are parisites and vermin
reagangs

So, “… many veteran political observers have noted that the Trump team is well behind where they need to be at this point in the transition”. Another “opinion” related to the DC old guard cartel. They refuse to acknowledge that TRUMP IS THE BOSS, NOW, AND THEY ARE THE IREVALENT ONES. WE WON. YOU LOST. GET OVER IT AND YOURSELVES. GO HOME/RETIRE WHILE YOU HAVE A SMALL SMIGEN OF CREDITABILITY. BUT, DON’T LOOK BACK BECAUE WE WILL BE WATCHING YOU.
Eric Hartman

Lt. Gen Flinn, Security Advisor:
Lt. Gen. Michael T. Flynn, a Trump national security adviser, has been paid by Turkish money laundered through a Dutch company to lobby on behalf of the Turkish government. More than bad judgement, Flynn’s egregious conduct raises ethical questions. It also casts doubt on his suitability for public office.

The Flynn Intel Group signed a contract with the Dutch company, Inovo BV, on September 15. The contract requires Flynn to lobby on appropriations bills for the departments of State and Defense. Flynn’s duties also include keeping his client informed about “the transition between President Obama and President-Elect Trump.”

Inovo BV is thinly capitalized and operates in deficit on an ongoing basis. Did Flynn vet Inovo BV before signing his deal? Was he willfully ignorant about where the money was coming from?

Inovo BV is a front organization for Inovo Turkije, which profits from contracts with the Turkish government. Ekim Alptek, a close associate of Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, founded both Inovo BV and Inovo Turkije. Alptekin is chairman of the Turkish-American Business Council, an arm of the Foreign Economic Relations Board of Turkey, whose members are designated by the Economy Minister and the Turkish Grand National Assembly.

If Flynn knew about Alptekin’s ties to the Turkish government, he violated US law by failing to register under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA), and declaring himself a foreign agent.

Flynn’s pro-Turkish positions compound concerns arising from his judgement and ethical lapse.

Under Inovo’s contract, Flynn published an op-ed on election day in The Hill that heaped praise on Erdogan and calling on the US Government to extradite the Muslim cleric, Fethullah Gulen, whom Erdogan accuses of masterminding the coup on July 15, 2016. His article echoed statements by Erdogan and Turkish officials. Flynn’s opinions were a dramatic departure from his previous views.

Simply put, Flynn was bought. He should not be lobbying on behalf of Turkey – period.

Turkey provided weapons, money, and logistical support for jihadist groups in Syria including the Islamic State in 2014 and 2015.
Turkey is Islamist; Erdogan’s Justice and Development Party acts like a branch of the Muslim Brotherhood.
Turkey targets oppositionists. More than 100,000 security and public officials have been arrested or dismissed since July.
Turkey is anti-American; Erdogan disparaged US officials for cooperating with Syrian Kurds (America’s best ally in Syria).
Turkey commits war crimes, killing scores of Kurdish civilians in Turkey’s Southeast.
Flynn’s name has been floated as head of the National Security Agency, as well as other top national security positions. In any of these roles, Flynn would be deeply involved in Turkish issues. Such responsibility requires someone who is free from foreign entanglements.

Flynn should disclose what he was paid and when by Inovo. He should clarify his current contractual obligations and itemize the services he performed for Turkey. If he does not come clean, Flynn should be disqualified from consideration for a top job in the Trump administration.
TOM P O’DONNELL

THE ONLY LOBBY SHOULD BE IN A TRUMP HOTEL.
TOM P O’DONNELL

THE FIRST AMERICAN PRESIDENT TO BE BURIED IN THE KREMLIN WALL. WHAT A WASTE OF 8 AMERICAN YEARS. HIS MEDIA PARTY IS WORSE THAN HE IS.
Abu Tom · New York, New York
Liberal is a politically correct way of not saying communist. Left is a direction. Progressive is a spaghetti. Communism is an agenda. There are poor communists and grey poopon communists like Pornowood. While no one is looking the communists are strong with chemical warfare. They have the support of Wall street and the communist media. Drugs is chemical warfare. Right now futures are being traded on your children. My guess is 3 out of ten will die after they go from weed to heroin. If you can’t control sweets how can you control drugs? If you can’t give up cigarettes how can you give up drugs? The goal of a sniper is to wound one soldier. That takes two to four men to carry him off the line. It weakens the line. Same with drugs. Wall street can’t wait to make a bundle. New franchises and rehab units are on your health care. Not to mention the destruction of the family. The big truth is that medical marijuana has been prescribed for years daily. It is called marinol and can be taken in liquid form so you don’t have to stink smoke it and ruin your lungs. It is also available in suppository form which cuts down on roach passing.

After WWII GI’S CAME HOME. They raised families, bought homes and went to college on the GI bill. We had the largest merchant marine fleet in the world. No more we have nothing to ship. We had the largest manufacturing capability in the world. We built a capitalist society of farmers. fishermen, merchants, ranchers and construction workers. Everything was made in the USA. The greatest generation trained their replacements based on military teamwork and the buddy system. Today we have silicon valley who wants to import foreigners to do the big money jobs. Our biggest businesses are in too few hands. Loyalty to the USA is as good up to a 10% discount. After that all bets are off. Thus the saying loyalty is 10%. Billionaires possibly backed by the soviets who never went away. Guys like Soros spends money to destroy the constitution. Lobbyists bribe senators and con grease mice. They buy your votes. The media is a brainwashing tool favoring the communist party. They call themselves democrats but the last real democrat was Harry Truman and today he would call them communists. Trump is our second chance and now that he is elected we cannot go home and complain about him. Our job is to see that he gets to do our job. Anyone who gets in his/our way must be exposed and neutralized. Unless you hear it from Trump believe nothing. Remember his/our real enemies exposed themselves to stop him. Check your Japanese/ Korean TV it is made in Mexico. Trump is right. 17% of the Chinese GDP goes to it’s war machine. WE ARE JUST NOW FINDING OUT HOW WEAK WE ARE.
STAY STRONG LIVE LONG. IF YOU THINK THESE BABIES ARE CRYING NOW. WAIT TILL THEY GET THEIR DRAFT NOTICE.

Subject: WATER BOARDING

WATER BOARDING WORKS EVERY TIME WITH AMERICAN MUSIC. SURFIN USA. TRUMP LOVES LAW AND ORDER.

THE REAL SUCKERS ARE THE BERNIE FOLLOWERS. THEY THOUGHT HE WAS ONE OF THEM. But he sold them out day one in a pre- arranged plan (my hunch) He was told by the communist party formerly the democrat party. Bernie your job is to make it look like Hilary has competition but keep the lid on those socialists. Promise them you will fight on the convention floor for them. We will tell you when to dump them before the convention. BERNIE THE SOCIALIST DROPPED OUT AND GOT BACK IN DNC FORMATION. BOUGHT A $650,000 THIRD SOCIALIST HOME AND IS BACK IN LINE. Now the Trumpeters live happily ever after.
The big losers were. 1- the communist media. 2- the FBI.3-the DOJ Lynch mob. 4-Hiltlery soon to serve time. 5-the communist party DNC- 6- the rotten rinos. 7-the lobbyists. 8-the communist education system.9- George Soros. 10- all the Leninist movements, ACLU, SPLC, THE INFILTRATED TEACHERS UNION. ALL INFILTRATED GOVERNMENT AGENCIES.

FAMOUS PATRIOT SAYINGS.
GIVE ME LIBERTY OR GIVE ME DEATH. PATRICK HENRY
MY ONLY REGRET IS THAT I HAVE BUT ONE LIFE TO GIVE FOR MY COUNTRY. NATHAN HALE
THE ONLY LOBBY LEFT IN WASHINGTON IS IN A TRUMP HOTEL. DONALD TRUMP

THE LABEL PEOPLE ARE OUT. FOR SALE 1-DEMOCRAT LABEL MACHINE WITH 1,000 ANTI SEMITE,RACIST LABELS FREE. YOU ARE NOT A MINORITY IF YOU ARE AMERICAN. AMERICANS WIN ELECTIONS.
SPIRIT OF AMERICA PARTY.

GIBSON’S MOVIE HACKSAW RIDGE SHOULD BE A MUST SEE IN EVERY SCHOOL IN THE LAND. REAL AMERICAN HISTORY.

Best quote today on Varney & Co by the cow man. Who is going to determine fake news? A student with a fake education?
bbb

When I was praying the other day I asked God if he could help Donald Trump drain the swamp.
Then the thought swept into my mind as clear as day. “How have lobbyists helped your children? How have they helped your neighbors? How have they helped the church or the military families?”
The lobbyists make DC blood-sucking lawyers rich, they get huge gifts of money or bonds for passing streamlined laws designed to help Soros and all the wealthy elites like Buffett, Bloomberg, etc. become even wealthier. I have not benefitted from lobbyists, nor have my neighbors, nor the church.
Yes, it is time to drain the swamp.
It is time to restore lawmaking to helping us become free of burgeoning big government, spying through Google on the average people rather than our enemies, taxing the air we breathe and everything else.
Thank God for hearing our prayers.
Eric Hartman

Another controversial military figure, former CIA director and retired U.S. Army General David Petraeus, is reportedly in the running for secretary of state. In 2015, Petraeus was sentenced to two years’ probation and a $100,000 fine after pleading guilty to leaking highly classified information to his biographer and lover, Paula Broadwell. This comes after Trump has spent months calling for Hillary Clinton to be jailed for her use of a private email server when she served as secretary of state, despite being cleared of wrongdoing by multiple FBI investigations. Donald Trump also met with President Nixon’s secretary of state, Henry Kissinger, on Thursday at Trump Tower.
- Retired
  
  Why is it you can not see that Hillary is just as guilty as the General, Did you even listen to what Comey said.
  - Eric Hartman
    
    Not the point! We aren’t talking Hillary here. Thats over. Trump promised to “drain the swamp”. Seems that his appointments are smelling an awful lot like swampland.
    
    If you insist to bring up Hillary, Trump promised to “lock her up” yet appoints someone guilty as Hillary? Does hypocrisy ring any bells? My Gramps always said “what’s good for the goose is good for the gander”.
    - Robert Baird
      
      The hell we aren’t talking about Hillary, Eric! You’re the one that brought her up!
      - Eric Hartman
        
        No Robert, if you can read you will see that Retired brought her up.
      - Retired
        
        WRONG ::: Better go back and re read your post about the General, you included Hillary Clinton.
      - Eric Hartman
        
        Sorry, my mistake. I forgot she was mentioned in my original article. So, instead of you deflecting to BS, still no comment that Trump is cozying up to someone who leaked classified info while promising to “drain the swamp”? No comment on trump’s sleight of hand of axing lobbyists with one hand while possibly appointing a classified info leaker with the other. Still no comment of the hypocrisy of tromping all over Hillary yet possibly appointing Petraeus, guilty of the same thing only worse ironically to the SAME position?
      - Retired
        
        It is quite obvious that you did not listen to Comey. She is just as guilty as those sitting in prison. Learn about Classified in formation.
      - Eric Hartman
        
        Like I said, lock them all up then. Can I be any more clear then that? I don’t care! You are still missing the point that trump not only is breaking his promise to drain the swamp and to add insult to injury he might appoint a known classified leaker (who didn’t get jail time) to the position of Sec. Of State! What is wrong with this picture??? You need glasses? Sheesh. Good night.
      - Retired
        
        You still have not answered as to what Comey has said about Hillary. You will not be clear until you say Hillary should be behind bars. You also forget things can change until Obama is out of the WH and the Trump team takes over. Trumps style is make a wrong move and you are gone, he does not play games like Clinton and Obama did.
      - Retired
        
        He is not in office yet and you are just like BLM raising hate and anger among people , because you are a sore loser. You are the one that needs glasses.
    - Retired
      
      That is why Hillary deserves the same treatment as others that were fined and some went to prison. Your Queen is above the law with the party of Democrats.
      - Eric Hartman
        
        First off she is not “my Queen”. Right or wrong, Hillary was investigated and not charged by a republican FBI head. Petraeus flat leaked classified information, not endangered the information. Hillary used a personal email account just as did Colin Powell, W Bush, and Cheney before her. I’m not saying it is right, but that is fact. Why are they not charged with the party of Republicans? Like I said, what’s good for the goose is good for the gander. Lock em all up as far as I’m concerned.
      - Retired
        
        You do not understand Security clearances. Hillary is as guilty as sin.
      - Eric Hartman
        
        The point is so is Petraeus and he is on trump’s shortlist for secretary of state.
      - Retired
        
        You are avoiding the subject of do YOU understand security classifications. Petraeus was used by the Democrats as a patsy because he knew what he was doing and showed the weekness of the Democrats.
      - Retired
        
        at does not mean he is getting the position, keep on reading your funny papers. Things have and will change before Jan. 2017 .
      - Retired
        
        Did they pass Classified information like Hillary did ?? Hillary is your Queen otherwise you would not bash the Republicans the way you do.
  - Robert Baird
    
    He’s a democrap troll, retired. Ignore his liberal a**!
    - Eric Hartman
      
      And Robert is a CONservative 🙂
- Robert Baird
  
  It’s called ‘keeping your friends close and your enemies closer’, Eric! You should get on one of those liberal sites where their views are much closer to yours!
  - Eric Hartman
    
    Right. Sounds like you are rationalizing. But I hope you are correct.
David Lozano

Liberals are cring
David Lozano

Liberals are crying what a shame
Adrian Vance

“Well behind where he needs to be?” Give us a break, Jerkoff, or whoever you are with no name on this piece. I wonder why? Obama didn’t have anybody for two months in spite of Vallery Jarret and David Axlerod, both Communists who generally know better on how organize based on KGB and Alinsky principles.

Google “Two Minute Conservative” for more.
charles becker

F–K The Media, They should ALL be looking for new jobs, just like all the snakes that WILL be drained!
charles becker

Brothers and countrymen, WE ARE AT WAR with the Muslims, WAKE THE FUCK UP !
- big KAhuna
  
  So true – here’s where we must go: Correcting our problems:
  All good info except “we” does not apply to the majority who are Christian based. The current direction has ignored the wishes of the majority and force feed us all with this immoral direction as well as spreading corruption and taking over the news media etc etc. I believe that the majority will welcome getting back our morals and following the best constitution ever written when followed. This means taxpayers will not pay for someone else’s decision to have an abortion-sensible solution, we will not support gay rights/marriages-immoral and promotes anti religion/athiesm, welfare recipients on drugs will be cut from funding, term limits on all politicians, cheat proof voting system developed and same campaign denomination to each candidate, Supreme Court judges should be good scholars of our constitution and cannot rule against our constitutional va
  lues-automatic removal if attempted, immigrants under Obama should be returned to place of origin ( they cannot fit within our constitution and have sworn to destroy us from within- Koran preaches killing all non Muslims)- mosques torn down/Koran banished/clothing requirements changed because of security reasons, illegals must go
  No freebies from our taxes period. Pornography and Gay content should be removed from normal TV programming and not packaged with other programs to acquire part of the funding to support these types of entertainment- UCLF, IRS, FDA, FBI, CIA, Homeland Security all investigated for corruption or appointments under Obama, Sorros arrested stripped of funds and jailed with Obama and Clinton for crimes against our constitution and highjacking America– never again!
AKLady2015

It is impossible for Trump to be President without someone holding his had. The man is totally lacking in both government knowledge and experience.
EBRM

AKLady2015. Why dont you get lost. You are nothing but a liberal shit stirrer and your comments are not needed. What Donald Trump has long forgotten you still have to learn. The NYT is pathetic and will no doubt have lost thousands of subscribers for their totally unbalanced reporting. Donald Trump should refuse to have any NYT reporter anywhere near him for the next 4 years at least.
Wcgraybill

We don’t need any Muslims in America with thier corum or whatever they call it. crap.
- big KAhuna
  
  Soo true!
  Well said. The Koran instructs Muslims to kill all non Muslims. One God created all mankind and I’m sure he didn’t tell one group to kill all others ( his creations- no way) The Koran is a corrosive document and will never promote Coexistence of other races within the same country. That’s why the Muslims have been isolated for over 1400 years. No one trusts them and for good reason ( like setting on a time bomb-want one for your neighbor??- no way). Their Koran should be banned from all civilized societies, their Mosques torn down and all Muslims must be sent back to all Muslim societies. They breeds terrorists and they have sworn an oath to divide and conquer ( biggest haters on the planet-well over 50% follow the Koran to the letter- do the math ). The POS in the White House is responsible and against the wishes of over 80% of Americans he opened the flood gates by design to millions to immigrate within the U.S. – putting Americans in harms way. He should be put in prison for his actions along with the corrupt Clintons (6 th biggest crime family in NY) Imagine America looking like Beirute in another 15 yrs. This is not an option it’s a must do for all our survival. What a legacy the stupid and corrupt will leave for our kids/grandkids if this is not addressed. All being funded by the Billionare George Sorros ( Socialist and known destroyer of countries). wake up America the Democratic Party has  Lost it way ( no mans land-communism/socialism/Muslim immigration/wall street corruption etc etc) and are the Satin within the US. No wonder so many are bailing out.
  Another good reason we need Trump – he gets it and understands the problems – America needs Trump to Survive. Go Trump!
gene smiith

Boy oh Boy…..they just will not cut TRUMP a break. ON him like a parasite. If the “Crisis” is really as serious as his detractors would have us believe, TRUMP would be way ahead of needing to be told by the no talents who are harassing him. They do it only to try every way they are able to devise of making him look bad, incompetent incapable etc. Really dumb, very damning of them, and sad that in this country folks have to act as they do.
bee

Don’t fail us now Trump
EBRM

AKLady ive told you before that you are an idiot. Just get lost.
- big KAhuna
  
  Block that liberal Toad– she’s only trying to disrupt normal
  Conversation. She has no life.

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