Trump originals say they're getting frozen out

[TubbersUK]

Source: Politico

Early Trump campaign operatives angst about their future as the Republican establishment muscles its way in.

They’ve been with him from the beginning – when no one believed he could win, and when the Republican Party establishment wanted absolutely nothing to do with him.

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

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Several say they feel alienated from the transition effort -- especially from Priebus, an establishment figure who will be White House chief of staff. Priebus collided bitterly earlier this year with Lewandowski, who as Trump’s first campaign manager hired many of the originals, and played a major role in his June firing.

“None of us are exactly Cabinet-level,” said one staffer who is among those pining for a job, but so far hasn’t been given any promises. “Most of us just want to do a good job and help the country, but apparently we don't play the game very well.”

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

[NRaleighLiberal]

1. Trump originals!

maybe they will wind up being sold on ebay!

[CincyDem]

2. Help me understand...

...they invested their time and best efforts in supporting a candidate with and expectation that, should he win, he would recognize the effort and quid-pro-quo them into some position of power.

That's just wrong on so many levels, not the least of which is belief that Trump would remember them once he had what he wanted. They're just contractors to be stiffed.

The stupid - it runs deep in these ones.

[DK504]

39. These are the same babies

crying about pay to play...Oh irony is so striking.

[FreakinDJ]

54. Least you forget FOBs

at least they kept that promise

[NYC Liberal]

55. Zero sympathy from me. I hope they're finally realizing their hero

is a con man, and that he doesn't care about anyone but himself, and anything but making more money. He has no loyalty, and he is not grateful to anyone because he thinks everything that happens to him is solely because of his own brilliance.

[madaboutharry]

3. Well.....

[liberal N proud]

4. They aren't millionaires

[Eugene]

5. Trump made a career out of screwing people over.

They were expecting something different?

[ToxMarz]

11. When someone shows you who they are, believe them!

[Kathy M]

71. +1

[NanceGreggs]

6. Trump's personal slogan ...

"YOU fucked up - you trusted me."

[Lucky Luciano]

18. Truer words have rarely been spoken. nt

[DK504]

40. So goes the gratitude of the Pig Elect

Donnie Two Tones Tic Tacs. I'm just crying me a river.

[JI7]

7. fuck them all

[JI7]

8. i would love it if lewandowski is one of those being screwed over

[vinny9698]

9. They got the Trump Treatment

And they knew beforehand how he treated other employees and contractors before they signed up. So they walked into the arrangement with their eyes wide open. They will now be charged for all the pizza and drinks they ate. Can not have free loaders now can we.

[PatSeg]

10. There is no loyalty in Trump world

He expects it, but doesn't reciprocate.

I'll bet they all had to sign confidentiality agreements, so they can't even write tell-all books.

[Raster]

13. EVERYONE who works for tRump, close to him signs...

...confidentiality agreements. tRump is notorious for his confidentiality agreements.

[PatSeg]

44. Yeah

It is part of his MO, giving him license to do or say whatever he likes without consequences. What a "nasty man".

[Raster]

49. Nasty man... that's being charitable.

[PatSeg]

59. Seriously

I've run out of adjectives and none of them really hit the mark with this man.

[Raster]

62. I agree, no they don't...

...this is the unthinkable --the "situation" THAT NO ONE, including the tRump itself, took seriously. Now we find this is as serious as a heart attack.

[Raster]

12. I believe they are called "the expendables"

[Xipe Totec]

14. Welcome to the Biglies nt

[louis-t]

15. News alert, you've been conned by the best.

Congratulations. Bernie Madoff wishes he were as big a con artist as drumpf.
And he doesn't need them anymore.

[TeamPooka]

16. Trump stiffs everyone. Suckers.

[KittyWampus]

17. If Trump had kept them on, he'd have lost. He took on Bannon and away he went.

[Turbineguy]

19. Ernst Rohm

had that problem as well.

[enid602]

30. ah, yes

...the night of long knives.

[Hong Kong Cavalier]

20. ...as the poison coursed through his veins, the fox looked at the scorpion on his back and asked...

"Why'd you do that? Now we're both going to drown!"

The scorpion replied, "It's my nature."

[tblue37]

23. Ironically, when Trump recites the lines "You knew I was a snake before you took me in" his

suckers believe he is describing his political opponents!

[Hong Kong Cavalier]

26. Yup.

Never seen so much denail since my trip to Egypt.

Okay, I've never been to Egypt. Just looked at it on Google Earth.

[keithbvadu2]

21. The Donald is well known for non-payment.

[Strelnikov_]

32. Ka-Ching n/t

[BeyondGeography]

22. Trump supporters respond

[Bradical79]

24. For the most part, they were morons.

In my opinion, Trump got elected despite these idiots, not because of them. The GOP establishment laid out the groundwork over the previous decades, and then Trump was pushed over the goal line by a combination of mainstream news outlets putting ratings first, Russian hackers, and the FBI. Other than Bannon getting the white suppremicists on board, and his people with Russian connections, I can't think of anything his team actually did to help him win.

[JudyM]

25. Good - let em fight it out.

[Sunlei]

27. Priebus and Pence do the transition work. If you haven't been called by now, you won't be included.

Go ask Kellyanne for a job, you can be on the Republicans new tweet team.

[Kingofalldems]

28. Trump: You are losers. I don't like losers!

[sfwriter]

29. ha!

“None of us are exactly Cabinet-level,” said one staffer who is among those pining for a job, but so far hasn’t been given any promises. “Most of us just want to do a good job and help the country, but apparently we don't play the game very well.”


Ha ha ha ha ha bwaaa haaa haa ha ha..... hee...

Schadenfreude, sweet sweet Schadenfreude.

[yeoman6987]

37. Good grief trump has to hire over 4,000 people in positions

I doubt they will be left out.

[Kingofalldems]

38. Another pro Trump post.

You seem to get upset when he is criticized here. This is a Democratic site. We are not Trump supporters.

[sfwriter]

46. Who was that. Aimed at?

[Kingofalldems]

47. Not you sir. Look on the top right corner of my post.

The post is directly above mine.

[sfwriter]

48. Sorry, my phone is rendering it strangely.

[sfwriter]

45. You are right.

Jackson turned over nearly the entire government. It used to be more common. It's not so common now, but I'm unsure just how much of that is tradition and how much is law. If tradition is all that stands between us and spoils based governance, then we are essentially screwed.

[LisaM]

31. Pardon me if I don't weep.

I honestly don't see how anyone could have been swindled by him.

[dembat]

33. Trump originals say they're getting frozen out

I do not feel sorry for them.

[Ford_Prefect]

34. Surprise, surprise, surprise!

Imagine that, Trump used them to gain an advantage and at the first opportunity to reward them he screwed them instead. Isn't that just too precious?

[Ilsa]

35. Boo-fucking-hoo.

Serves them right for not seeing him for who he is: a lying, cheating, bigotted psychopath.

[Paladin]

60. You beat me to it. Thanks. (nt)

[Ilsa]

67. I didn't cuss this much during Shrub's administration.

But every day there is a new offensive nomination to DT's cabinet:
1. Anti-drug safety
2. Anti-food safety
3. War mongerers
4. Anti-climate change
5. Anti-environment
6. Anti-national parks,
7. Anti-equality,
Etc ad nauseum.

[Paladin]

68. Trump makes Dubya look like Churchill, by comparison.

It's really that bad, in my opinion.

[Ilsa]

69. It seemed like at the beginning,

the worst thing W did was bring in Darth Cheney to run things for him, like Pence will do for Trump.

I wonder how much federal land trump wants to buy? And I bet he gets a good deal on it, too.

[Paladin]

70. The U.S. Treasury gets a staggering amount of money from those federal lands.

In the form of oil and gas royalties and grazing fees, out West. I'm sure Trump wants to make common cause with those Bundy goons and privatize the ownership of such lands, reaping huge benefits. And if a cherished national park gets in the way...tough shit. In my worst nightmares, I never dreamed it could get this bad, this quick.

[not fooled]

36. Pssst...credulous dump adherents

Your candidate was conning you as well as his moronic voters. Now that he "won", his true colors come out--he's a fascist and plutocrat who mouthed populism to get into power. Let the screwing commence! Just too bad that it will hurt the commendables (= opposite of his deplorables) who saw through his shit.

[MustBeTheBooz]

41. Nobody he's appointed so far is "cabinet level."

So they have that going for them.

[They_Live]

43. Yes.

Thanks for the laugh.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

42. Chris Christie? ? ... crickets ... . nt

[Thekaspervote]

50. Oh toooo bad!! When are trumpsters going to figure out dump,is only for dump

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

51. Can somebody just get them all together in a room and

give 'em some PCP and a case full of guns?

[Adsos Letter]

52. Cry me a river.

That is all.

[Mr.Bill]

53. They want jobs in the new administration?

They'll be lucky if they get paid for the work they've done so far.

[LenaBaby61]

56. Trump originals say they're getting frozen out.

[hatrack]

57. Fuck 'em. They helped this asshole, and now he's shitting on them . . .

. . . just like he's shitting on this country.

Enablers getting what they deserve.

[MBS]

58. " " " n/t

[lastlib]

61. This could be a semi-good thing....

....He's not putting the neo-Nazis in, maybe just the Klansmen.

[Nitram]

63. Cry me a river.

That's what you get when you support a double-crossing con man for president.

[Generator]

64. The more people el putin hitler of the orange shade

pisses off the better. These are the people with inside info, and who will hold grudges. This are the people that can turn and betray him and bring him down. This is actually making me smile.

[Yavin4]

65. Some people never think that the person screwing over other people won't screw over them

This never ceases to amaze me.

[trueblue2007]

66. they are whining like a baby. tough luck for you. hahahahahahahahahaha