I'll admit that I stopped reading after what I highlighted. But what makes you think that with Trump's history? If you work for Trump in politics, forget about advancing if you have high political aspirations. Ask Mike Pence about how that works when Trump puts you on his intellectually challenged MAGA sheep's radar when the old man baby is mad at you... the Republican party kisses his ass for a reason and IMO, they are smart to do so with the power he has over his simpletons.
The bottom line is you never go work for an incompetent person who will never have your back when that person fucks up. Trump doesn't just fuck up. You can possibly get jail time and/or lose your livelihood working for that extreme narcissistic piece of shit.
More on topic, of course Trump is dismissing jail time for Clinton now. That no longer fits his narrative because his old fat ass is facing jail time himself if he loses the election. And more importantly to him, he probably no longer views her as a viable threat.
Originally Posted by Lucas McCain
+1,000
Donald Trump has a track record of throwing people under the bus after using them for all their worth. If you wrong him then you’re attacked relentlessly and targeted by his more militant supporters.
Originally Posted by txdot-guy
I'll admit that I stopped reading McCain's post after the first three words. But here are reasons why Trump's appointments, if he's elected, wouldn't be as bad as you think.
1. People like the power, prestige and experience that can come with a political appointment. Plenty of good people will be willing to serve under Trump.
2. The Senate has to confirm around the top 1400 executive appointments. The Senators will serve as a check on the president.
3. American institutions and the civil service will also serve as a check. Remember how the DOJ threatened to resign en masse when Trump threatened to install Jeffrey Clark as Attorney General.
4. For the Department of Energy or Education Transportation or HUD and many other agencies, Trump won't be a micro-manager. To the extent he appoints good people, which I think he did for my examples anyway, they'll be able to take the ball and run with it. Yssup explains why:
He...isn’t mentally stable enough to remember why he said yesterday, let alone 8 years ago. Worse, he doesn’t care.
Originally Posted by Yssup Rider
Admittedly, serving as something like Trump's Chief of Staff would be a nightmare. Yeah, the best and the brightest might pass over that, as well as press secretary and other positions where his narcissism and character flaws would make peoples' jobs difficult.
I would detest his appointees in charge of trade policy, as well as the Stephen Miller immigration contingent who may propose locking babies up in cages and shipping DACA teenagers back to Afghanistan and Syria.
But otherwise fears are overblown. Trump's foreign policy people may surprise me (but not you) positively by veering away from the neoconservative agenda that's haunted this country for 25 years.
And with respect to his appointments to the DOJ, and with respect to the topic of this thread, Trump might just have seen the light. Look at his current stance on locking up Hillary. As Salty rightly points out, this is the same thing he said publicly after he was elected.
My hope, expressed in another thread, is that the political class would learn some lessons by being subject to overzealous prosecution. Hopefully that's sunk in on Trump, as a result of his misfortunes in New York. I believe it's very unlikely his DOJ would go after Hillary, Biden, etc. Although it wouldn't surprise me if he got a large number of January 6 protestors and instigators off the hook.
