Trump Finds It Harder To Recruit Talent As Scandals Pile Up

[brooklynite]

Source: Huffington Post

WASHINGTON ― A White House in a “downward spiral,” as a key Republican senator called it, is making an already daunting task even harder: persuading qualified candidates to take important administration jobs.

Hundreds of key posts at the Department of Defense and the State Department remain unfilled heading into the fifth month of Donald Trump’s presidency because of his insistence on personally approving all top hires. And the hiring crunch started before the most recent stretch of controversy that began with Trump firing the FBI director while the bureau was investigating the Trump campaign’s possible collusion with Russia and was followed by an Oval Office meeting last week with Russian officials during which Trump reportedly revealed highly classified information. Then Tuesday came the multiple reports that Trump had asked FBI Director James Comey to end his investigation of Michael Flynn, Trump’s first national security adviser.

“Up to now, many experienced national security hands had been barred from serving in this administration because they opposed candidate Trump,” said Richard Haas, president of the nonpartisan Council on Foreign Relations. “The danger now for the country is that many of these same people will opt to stay out because they oppose President Trump.”

The onslaught of unflattering revelations has even some Republican lawmakers calling for changes. Tennessee Republican and chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Bob Corker, a Trump ally, said Monday that the White House has to find a way to reverse this “downward spiral.”


Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-unfilled-jobs-scandals_us_591b5e97e4b0ed14cdda4128?5sf

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I thought the "Party" line was that these jobs were "unnecessary".

[C_U_L8R]

1. 'Trump' is death on your resume

It'd be career suicide... even for the rightest rightwinger

[Phoenix61]

2. The only talent he needs to be worried about

is talented lawyers, really, really talented lawyers.

[Julian Englis]

3. What's the problem? DeVos has a big family.

n/t

[Ilsa]

5. Yeah, but it's like, real work, you know?

They are used to paid positions on boards where they do a little reading, but not much of anything else.

[volstork]

4. Talent?

I was unaware that he had recruited ANY talent... unless you count melanic's "modeling" skillz.

[TNNurse]

18. You beat me to a comment about talent in his administration.

[tanyev]

6. Pretty sure Sarah Palin's available.

[Julian Englis]

7. Sheriff Joe Arpaio is available, too, if he isn't jailed.

n/t

[Julian Englis]

8. And former Alabama Governor Robert Bentley is available

He's only banned from Alabama politics. Plus, he's a dermatologist so he could really help Bannon.

[abbeyco]

9. Let's use a trumpf term: death spiral

It's really only fitting to use the same language he's used and use it against him: his administration is in a death spiral.

[jmowreader]

10. Message deleted by DU the Administrators

[FrodosNewPet]

16. Please don't insult these poor folks like that

Their lives are already hard and dangerous enough. They may have the prerequisite skills for a job in the Trump administration. But they have far too much integrity.

[onetexan]

22. LOL

great job with the job hints the working girls are definitely up the Orange Idiot's alley

[Aristus]

11. Well, I'm shocked. This is my shocked face:

He is trying to recruit talent? Who knew? I thought he was just trying to recruit ass-kissers...

[0rganism]

12. hard to get a talented ass kisser these days

his ass is used to being kissed by only the BEST toadies. THE BEST!

[spiderpig]

14. The optics! The optics!!!

[Cha]

13. Talent? lol Liars and Sociopaths wanted.. must hate

Hillary and Obama.

[spiderpig]

15. Hard to believe there aren't scores lined up in their lead-lined boots

ready to hop aboard the leaking-like-a-sieve Good Ship Trump.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

17. Is Scott Baio available? He's no less qualified than anyone else they've tried. NT

[JHB]

19. Not even Scott Baio?

Gosh, must be quite a mess that not even Chachi In Charge can straighten it out!

[Crowman2009]

20. Not to mention that the turnover rate is HORRENDOUS!

How long does a typical career at a Trump venture last? A few months?

[IronLionZion]

21. Is it too many empty job openings, or they have too many government employees?

Is the deep state too deep for them to fill?

On one hand obviously qualified people don't want to work for a miserable asshole who will fire them if they do their jobs well.

On the other hand, there is probably a lot of important work not being done, which puts our country at risk in some areas.

I read an article about some tech leaders in the federal government who saw their colleagues leave for industry jobs once that orange bastard won the election but there are some who stayed and view it as fighting the good fight and service to country even if they disagree vehemently with the politics of the president.

[hatrack]

23. What about Underwear Model Guy? Y'know, from the convention?

He's tanned, rested, ready and freshly entangled in a divorce and custody fight involving accusations that he's using meth.

Winning!