Trump originals say they're getting frozen out

[applegrove]

Trump ‘originals’ say they're getting frozen out

By ALEX ISENSTADT and KENNETH P. VOGEL at Politico

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/12/trump-original-operatives-frozen-out-232383

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But now, as President-elect Donald Trump builds out his administration, the loyalists who helped launch his campaign and powered its stunning early victories are growing worried they won’t be getting plum jobs.


Many of them say they’ve heard nothing about their career prospects and, during furtive huddles, have been commiserating with one another about how they can’t seem to get their calls to top Trump transition brass returned. Some are convinced that party establishment figures who’ve taken the reins of the transition are giving them short shrift.

Compounding their frustration is that a number of top posts are going to mainstream party figures who previously actively opposed Trump. The president-elect is seriously considering tapping Mitt Romney, a onetime leader of the Never Trump movement, to be secretary of state. He has already made Todd Ricketts, whose family funded an anti-Trump super PAC during the primaries, deputy commerce secretary. And on Thursday, Trump met with retired Navy Adm. James Stavridis, who had been vetted by Hillary Clinton as a possible vice presidential choice but now may end up in Trump’s administration.

The concerns have become so intense that Karen Giorno, a Trump aide who oversaw his successful Florida campaign during the Republican primaries, recently had a telephone conversation with the president-elect in which she expressed concern that Trump loyalists wouldn’t be getting White House roles. During the call, which was described by three sources, Giorino also said she was alarmed that his establishment-minded choice for White House chief of staff, outgoing Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus, wouldn’t support the early staffers who worked for him. (Neither Giorno nor a Trump spokesperson would comment.)

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[liberal N proud]

1. If only they would have donated millions of dollars to the trump shit show

That seems to be the criteria to getting a job at trump.

[applegrove]

2. Exactly. Here is more:

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Roger Stone, a Republican strategist and longtime Trump friend, has given voice to the concerns. During a Wednesday appearance guest-hosting Alex Jones’ radio show, Stone said he visited Trump Tower this week and found “an armada of retreads from the old Republican Party, both the congressional wing of the party and the Romney-McCain-Bush burnouts who are trying to board this ship.”

“I saw people and heard about people whose names I haven’t heard in 25 to 30 years,” he added. “These are people who did nothing whatsoever to elect Donald Trump and they’re people who don’t share Donald Trump’s values. They disagree with him on trade, they disagree with him on monetary policy, they disagree with him on immigration. Yet, they seek glory and titles.”

As it stands, a number of Trump originals, as they call themselves, have yet to be promised positions in the administration. That includes people like George Gigicos, Trump’s director of advance; Michael Glassner, the former deputy campaign manager; and Stuart Jolly, the former national field director. The staffers who led Trump’s campaign in early primary states — like Matt Ciepielowski, Charles Munoz and James Merrill — haven’t been offered positions, either. Nor has Mike Rubino, who oversaw Trump’s campaign in several states, or Stephanie Milligan, who ran his Oklahoma campaign.

For some, it isn’t for lack of trying. Jolly, has had talks with people close to the transition, said sources briefed on the matter. But it’s unclear whether he’s being considered for any coveted positions. Jolly declined to comment.

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[bettyellen]

8. Looks like Conway is out to pasture too.

[anneboleyn]

10. Yes, and I think Gingrich is out too. They served their purpose in Trump's view. Now they get dumped

because he wants new, "exciting" types to fill the new positions. I noticed that Conway's demeanor changed, and I thought that something was up -- she didn't get offered whatever she was hoping for and I think she feels betrayed. I think Gingrich is out too -- and obviously Chris Christie.

[erpowers]

14. Donald Trump is a Figure Head

This proves that Donald Trump is not and will not be running the country. Mike Pence et al will be running the country. That may be the real reason Republicans returned home to vote for Donald Trump. They may have already known that Trump would not actually be running the country.

We all need to understand who is running the transition, who was that person's role model, and how that person acted when they were put in charge of the Vice Presidential selection process and how they acted when they entered the White House. Mike Pence is running the transition team. He has said his role model for being Vice President is Dick Cheney. It has been said that Dick Cheney was put in charge of President Bush's VP search and picked himself. Once Cheney and Bush entered the White House, it was rumored that Dick Cheney was actually running the country. It seems we are seeing the same situation with the incoming White House team.

[applegrove]

15. Scary

[Nevernose]

17. Remember that Trump first offered Kasich the job

And said that Hasich could handle foreign affairs and domestic affairs, and Trump would handle "everything else."

Today on NPR they reported that Trump has had TWO daily security briefings; Pence reads his daily, and sometimes asks for follow ups later the same day.

[irisblue]

3. awww

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

5. Damn it

You're a step ahead of me. I was going to post the same thing.

[Nwgirl503]

4. Don't feel bad at all for them

Reap what you sow. Galatians 6-7 (I tried to put the passage correctly, but it keeps showing up as an emoji)

As Bible-thumping as most of these people are, that should be a passage they're intimately familiar with.

Or Jeremiah 14:14-16
The prophets are prophesying lies in my name. I did not send them, nor did I command them or speak to them. They are prophesying to you a lying vision, worthless divination, and the deceit of their own minds. Therefore thus says the Lord concerning the prophets who prophesy in my name although I did not send them, and who say, ‘Sword and famine shall not come upon this land’: By sword and famine those prophets shall be consumed. And the people to whom they prophesy shall be cast out in the streets of Jerusalem, victims of famine and sword, with none to bury them—them, their wives, their sons, and their daughters. For I will pour out their evil upon them.

[coco22]

9. Waiting for Omarosa...

[Nwgirl503]

11. I hope she's one of the first left in the street with no one to bury her

Lord knows Cheeto won't get his hands dirty.

[coco22]

12. She runs a Church..

she says she is an ordained minister with her evil ass maybe he congregation will help..

[malaise]

6. Bring out the violins

[Wounded Bear]

7. Yeah, well Trump has always been about loyalty, you know....

[hedda_foil]

13. He doesn't need them. He's going for the adulation of real bigshots now.

He wants applause from the generals and billionaires who always disdained him in the past.

[rusty fender]

16. Hahahah, etc.

Where's your messiah now? And as George Carlin said: It's a small club and you're not in it. I hope they cry in their beer come inauguration day