Trump hires guy to find nominees, rejects them all because they were "critical" of him in the past

[Miles Archer]

Early on, the Trump organization reached out to longtime Republican operative Elliott Abrams for help selecting nominees for cabinet posts and other appointments. Abrams reportedly brought long lists of nominees only to have the president and his staff veto them because they had said something critical of Trump in the past.

“Mr. Abrams’s experience has become a case study in the challenges Mr. Trump still faces in filling top positions a month into his presidency. Mr. Trump remains fixated on the campaign as he applies a loyalty test to some prospective officials. For their part, many Republicans reacted to what happened to Mr. Abrams with dismay, leaving them increasingly leery about joining an administration that cannot get past the past,” said the Times.

“Many tough things were said about him and by him” during the campaign, Mr. Abrams said in an interview with the Times. “I would have hoped he would have turned toward just hiring the most effective people to help him govern rather than looking back to what we said in that race.”

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/02/leaks-grudges-and-tremendous-uncertainty-have-slowed-trump-admins-hiring-to-a-crawl-report/

[NBachers]

1. Abrams was convicted of withholding information from Congress about the IranContra affair

while serving for Reagan, but was pardoned by President George H. W. Bush.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliott_Abrams

Keep track of the criminals in the Racketeer Influenced Corrupt Organization that is the Republican Party.

[Cha]

2. Too bad he made an exception for ben carson.. the idiot he tapped

for HUD who was Critical of him

[SunSeeker]

4. Kellyanne Conway was pretty critical of Trump too, as was Spicer, before they got hired.

However, some of Trump's closest aides have also criticized him in the past.

Kellyanne Conway, now a top White House official, once said Trump took advantage of "the little guy" to build his real estate empire.

"He says he's for the little guy but he's actually built a lot of his business on the backs of the little guy," she said on CNN in February 2016 when she ran a super PAC looking to help Sen. Ted Cruz's presidential campaign.

Conway, in April, also told CNN that Trump should release his tax returns.

"It's completely transparent," Conway said about an alliance between Cruz and Ohio Gov. John Kasich. "Donald Trump's tax returns aren't, I would like to see those be transparent."

Sean Spicer, now Trump's press secretary, once knocked the then-presidential candidate for saying that Sen. John McCain, who was held as a POW for six years in Vietnam, was not a war hero because he was caught.

"He is a war hero because he was captured," Trump said during a town hall. "I like people that weren't captured, OK?"

Spicer, then the communications director for the Republican National Committee, said in a statement that McCain "is an American hero because he served his country and sacrificed more than most can imagine. Period."

http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/19/politics/craig-deare-white-house-trump/index.html

[Cha]

5. That's right.. so what's he got a bug up his ass now

about critiques. More paranoid than usual?

SunSeeker

[TNLib]

8. I think he is absolutely paranoid at this point

The ship is sinking fast.

[NanceGreggs]

3. If Li'l Hands is looking for ...

... Trump loyalists, he'd better act quickly. It's a field that gets smaller with every passing day.

[Rhiannon12866]

6. Eventually, the only choices he's going to have left are his kids - if they stay on his right side

[BaronChocula]

7. Who'd-a-thunk

you'd see Abrams still floating around like pond scum, just to get kicked off The Apprentice - White House Edition for saying unkind things about the Conald.