Trump: First Term ‘Mistake’ Was Some
of the People I Picked for My Cabinet
Breitbart Clips,
by
Pam Key
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
7/17/2023 5:24:03 AM
Former President Donald Trump said on this week’s broadcast of “Sunday Morning Futures” that the only mistake he made during his time in office was some of the people he picked to serve in his cabinet.
Anchor Maria Bartiromo asked, “Is there is anything you could look back on in 16 that you think maybe you want to do differently?”
Trump said, “The mistake would be people. I mean, I wouldn’t have put a guy like Bill Barr, and he was weak and pathetic. I wouldn’t have put Jeff Sessions. And there are some people that I wouldn’t have put in. You know, most people were good, but I had some people,
Reply 1 - Posted by:
LadyVet 7/17/2023 5:56:35 AM (No. 1514391)
He should have a long list of people at DoJ, and FBI to fire. And then he needs to fire generals at the Pentagon. Probably needs someone with an enlisted background for DoD to get rid of DEI. Then the heads of the service academies need to go and get some combat engineers and military strategists in to replace wokesters. EPA and BLM needs to he cleaned and thinned. Gen Flynn and Nunes could advise about cleaning CIA. Make use of Ben Carson and Rick Perry to at least recommend changes at Energy Dept, HHS. And the COVID dictators need to be cleaned out at CDC, NIH, Surgeon General etc. Surely the Heritage Foundation has some people working on strategic domestic policies. Consider Tim Ballard for Border Czar. And he needs to pull security clearances for at least 51 people at CIA.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
DVC 7/17/2023 6:10:28 AM (No. 1514398)
Exactly so, and he trusted people who turned out to be Deep State NeverTrumpers who worked tirelessly to subvert his every move.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Msquared112 7/17/2023 6:36:42 AM (No. 1514405)
Hm. Some unexpected humility. Maybe he’s trying to get back some of the voters he may have lost because of his overweening chutzpah. It’s a good sign.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
usmc0302 7/17/2023 6:38:41 AM (No. 1514407)
With respect to poster 1, I would go about it differently. I would replace the entire Joint Chiefs and major combatant commands such as CENTCOM and SOCOM. I would deep select future nominees, peruse the retired list as well as reservists. All must be proven gunslingers with a deep belief in the military as a meritocracy.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
bpl40 7/17/2023 7:03:50 AM (No. 1514420)
I admire him Am convinced the country has no realistic alternative to whatever the other Party has to offer. But..Mr.President we could have told you this Iback in '17.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Jerseyden 7/17/2023 7:05:45 AM (No. 1514422)
Maybe Trump should name people he had confidence in . The only people I remember him being positive about where Kushner and his daughter.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
pros7767 7/17/2023 7:21:13 AM (No. 1514431)
Recognizing this is a great first step to a successful second term. However, equally important, Trump needs to use his endorsement powers better. McConnell never should have been endorsed by him. Graham is a snake in the grass. His attempt to defend him at his SC rally, after Graham was booed for 6 minutes straight, still shows he has a way to go.
Trump needs to realize that beyond the Deep State, the Uni-Party will do everything in their power to once again destroy his MAGA agenda. Trump 2024!
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
pros7767 7/17/2023 7:26:19 AM (No. 1514432)
Beyond his Cabinet selections, he also needs to use his endorsement powers better. McConnell should never have been endorsed as there was a strong conservative candidate running against him. Graham is another Rino deep stater. Same with Romney!
Unless he starts eliminating some of these RINO's, they will continue to block his agenda at every turn.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Rinktum 7/17/2023 7:46:30 AM (No. 1514449)
Not many of us get a do over in this life, but President Trump has earned one. Clearly, he was hamstrung and worse while he working hard to make the country great again. No one has ever gone through the daily assaults, vicious lies, and betrayals that he has. Yet, through all that he earned Americans’ trust and admiration. He is a quicker learner and I don’t believe he will make the same mistakes.
Politics has been a hard taskmaster. Most men would have collapsed under the weight of the constant barrage of incoming. PDT is a man on a mission. He knows the problems we face are massive but as Ronald Reagan told us, they have simple solutions. I have no doubt he will advance to the office loaded for bear and will take no prisoners because he knows who the enemies of this country are and intends to restore this nation to sanity. Taking on the deep state, media, his own party, and the leftist mobs is going to be an epic task but he more than anyone else, I believe, is up to the task if the psychopathic leftists don’t eliminate him. God bless him and keep him safe.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Clinger 7/17/2023 8:02:42 AM (No. 1514460)
Had Trump not used any swamp creatures and relied completely on outsiders, there would have been a complete inside war of them vs us with the beurocratic state. We clearly see the downside to Trump's approach but we have no idea how things would have turned out had he taken a different approach. We can believe that things would have gone better in fact I do, but we'll never know.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
LesUNo 7/17/2023 8:15:16 AM (No. 1514477)
Oh good grief. Ya think???
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
planetgeo 7/17/2023 8:17:10 AM (No. 1514480)
I voted for him twice and would again if he's the nominee, but honestly this is a major flaw for him. He operates strictly as a one-man band. Always has. Always will. And unfortunately the federal government is an octopus. He has not built up any significant list of competent, faithful team mates for the next time that I can see. On the contrary, he continues to snipe at potential key team members. This is not a good way to prepare for the next administration where he would need lots of loyal supporters to help him drain the swamp.
Flame me all you want. I speak the truth.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Venturer 7/17/2023 8:17:21 AM (No. 1514481)
Cleanse the FBI and the CIA right off the bat.
Then get to work on the State Department.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
MissMann 7/17/2023 8:47:17 AM (No. 1514497)
Ya think?!?!?!?!?!?
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
red1066 7/17/2023 9:03:48 AM (No. 1514506)
I've said this a number of times. Trump's first couple of years in office was a mess because he relied on people from inside the beltway to pick his cabinet. These people ended up fighting Trump every step of the way, and Trump admitted as much in his interview with Maria Bartaroma. He said he didn't know how D.C. operated, however he does now. It was Chris Chistie who told Trump to pick Christopher Wray to run the FBI.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
privateer 7/17/2023 9:11:30 AM (No. 1514516)
Appoint Chris Christie Ambassador to Atlantis.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
cor-vet 7/17/2023 9:24:21 AM (No. 1514530)
Poster #16, I was thinking Cristie would only be good as Ambassador to MacDonalds!
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Brunsong 7/17/2023 9:38:27 AM (No. 1514543)
PDT needs to remove and replace every Senior Executive Service (SES) member in every executive agency. These are the folks that regardless of who the cabinet secretary is call the shots (think Lois Lerner at the IRS). SES operatives serve exclusively at the discretion of the cabinet secretary. He should also assemble a list of all agency employees who were whistleblowers over the past 20 years and use them to fill the upper agency ranks to stop the corruption.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
john56 7/17/2023 10:45:34 AM (No. 1514574)
I'll give Trump a little slack on appointments during his first term. I'm not sure that anyone expected Trump to win over Hillary (except Trump, maybe) and when it happened, no one was ready to vet and appoint the right folks to the job. Lots of folks ready with ideas and suggestions, but were they properly vetted to what President Trump expected from them?
I hate to put the cart before the horse, but I sure hope that there is some serious thinking in the Trump camp (and that those serious thinkers can keep their big yaps shut) about what needs to be done starting on noon, January 20, 2025, and who needs to be ready to walk in the doors and clean house.
I'd also suggest buying futures on cardboard boxes. Because I suspect a lot of folks may be carrying them out of their offices (after, of course, they are properly inspected) after that date.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
MickTurn 7/17/2023 11:05:44 AM (No. 1514588)
Trump needs to find more loyal Patriot Friends, the ones he listened to in his Presidency were mostly RINO Goons! My advice, Delete every person that is a Democrap that works for Govt. Then restructure the entire bureaucracy. Pass bills in Congress that prevent any bureaucracy from enacting any policy without a 2/3 vote of Congress and POTUS Signature!
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
avital2 7/17/2023 11:30:04 AM (No. 1514602)
what we like about Trump is his non-DC-ness. this was a drawback in the lst term as he had to rely on DC insiders to help make the thousands of personnel appointments. he knows who knifed him better than any of us - and he knows who he has to 'play' to keep the wheels turning. he can't have it all his way on Day One. but i suspect he will be quite dramatic on cleaning house because he's mad as holy heck. let's just get him there.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 7/17/2023 2:23:56 PM (No. 1514670)
I truly hope Trump is capable of acknowledging his mistakes and making the necessary adjustments otherwise his second term will be much like his first. The people he brings in will be influenced and manipulated. Some never intended to follow Trump's agenda. Hope he has learned not to trust Republicans. They are almost as bad as the Democrats. Trump is essentially alone in Washington. Nobody can be trusted. Trump should especially be on the lookout for the people around him trying to take decisions out of his hands. Trump should seriously consider what happened to him when the pandemic occurred. His enemies will try something similar.
As for Christie, make him ambassador to Buttheadistan and give him a one-way ticket there.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
hershey 7/17/2023 2:33:24 PM (No. 1514680)
I've said it all along...the first thing he should have done is send US Marshals to EVERY office occupied by a deep-stater and frog march them out the door WITHOUT any laptops, data sticks, phones or security clearances...just their underwear...he certainly knows who they are now....
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