Bloodbath at RNC: Trump team slashes staff at committee Donald Trump’s newly installed leadership team at the Republican National Committee on Monday began the process of pushing out dozens of officials, according to two people close to the Trump campaign and the RNC. All told, the expectation is that more than 60 RNC staffers who work across the political, communications and data departments will be let go. Those being asked to resign include five members of the senior staff, though the names were not made public. Additionally, some vendor contracts are expected to be cut. The overhaul is aimed at cutting, what one of the people described as, “bureaucracy” at the RNC. But the move also underscores the swiftness with which Trump’s operation is moving to take over the Republican Party’s operations after the former president all but clinched the party’s presidential nomination last week. Trump’s campaign took over operational control of the RNC on Monday. On Friday, former North Carolina GOP Chair Michael Whatley was elected the RNC’s new chair, and Trump daughter-in-law Lara Trump was elected as co-chair. Both had Trump’s endorsement. Additionally, Trump senior campaign adviser Chris LaCivita was named as the RNC’s new chief of staff. https://www.politico.com/news/2024/...rump-team-slashes-staff-at-committee-00146368 What happened to RNC staff is what will happen to career civil servants being employed in governmental agencies. Trump will purge all but those deemed loyal to him under the guise of streamlining the agencies. Taking advantage of the "government is wasteful" narrative to install unquestioning sycophants who will do his bidding without hesitation. Steve Bannon describes it as the dismantling of the administrative state. In reality it's a Trump takeover of every lever of power.
Oh no, some people got fired, that must mean Trump is going to RULE THE PLANET! As if there were never re-organizations at the DNC, ever, in the entirety of history. Here's a little something to help
He won't rule the planet, but he will TRY to rule the U.S. like he does the Republican Party: as the dictator. Most likely (and hopefully) he will fail to do that. But even trying will have grave consequences to our country. Even as a CANDIDATE, telling Russia the they'll be allowed to attack a NATO country if he's elected has very very bad consequences. This nut needs to be in jail... .NOW! Before he does any more damage.
When did any Dem presidential candidate install a family member as the head of the DNC, in a clear case of nepotism? So, please, stop your false equivalencies. This is a clear conflict of interest, especially, since the main job of Lara Trump will be to funnel donations to Trump, rather than to other Republican causes. Of course, Trump supporters pretend it doesn't matter. Yet, from Trump's MO, it shuld be evident to anyone that he'll do the same to our institutions as what he is currently doing to the RNC. Loyalists everywhere who are answering to Trump, rather than being loyal to the country and the constitution. How Trump supporters cannot see the danger of this is astounding.
Here's your equivalent (let it sink in) https://www.newsweek.com/democrats-also-pay-family-public-dollars-699548 At least 11 lawmakers are keeping an immediate family member on the payroll, according to an analysis of FEC data from The Hill. They are split evenly between the two major parties: Six Democrats and five Republicans are paying family members tens of thousands of dollars annually for campaign-related work. Personally, I frown upon this practice and do not agree with Trump doing that, BUT, please don't pretend he's the only one to do it. Plenty of democrats have as well.
Trump plan to gut civil service triggers pushback https://www.reuters.com/world/us/tr...gers-pushback-by-unions-democrats-2023-12-22/ He keeps telling us what he'll do. Why don't his supporters believe him?
Dec 22 (Reuters) - Donald Trump's vow to give himself the power to gut the federal workforce if he is elected to the White House again has unions, Democrats and watchdog groups preparing for legal action and seeking to tighten protections to prevent the former president from bending the bureaucracy to his will. The thing he so very much desires about autocratic governance is for his commands not to be questioned. To rule with an iron fist. And why is that so attractive to him? Because he doesn't want to have to see his decisions put through a rigorous process of examination since they are typically based on ignorance, bigotry, and impulse.
More much ado about nothing You need people you can trust to implement policy changes and it was fairly clear after 2022 that Rona and company were only interested in supporting people who volunteered to be part of the problem rather than part of the solution. The problem is the overweening power of the administrative state and its intelligence apparatus you can't fix that with high hopes and half measures.
Trump’s Purge of the RNC Could Cripple the GOP. Nixon Shows Why. A capricious, self-centered GOP president decides he wants to dump the national party chair and install an even more reliable loyalist. It sounds a lot like former President Donald J. Trump’s ouster of Ronna McDaniel as chair of the Republican National Committee. But it’s also a rough approximation of President Richard Nixon’s RNC housecleaning more than a half-century ago. In February 1969, Nixon accepted the resignation of Ray Bliss as Republican National Chair, and not long after replaced him with Maryland Rep. Rogers Morton, a Nixon loyalist willing to defer to the president’s wishes. Bliss was different from McDaniel in one important way. His devotion was to party only, unlike McDaniel, a MAGA loyalist who had been handpicked by Trump after his 2016 victory. But both Trump and Nixon were motivated by the same desire — to remove anything resembling a guardrail and establish absolute and total dominion over the GOP infrastructure and its purse strings. In Nixon’s case, it was a purge that ended up with disastrous consequences for the Republican Party — so ruinous and far-reaching that they’re worth remembering today. https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/03/14/trump-rnc-purge-gop-nixon-00146840 My hope is Repubs come to realize Trump is in this for himself. Not the party and not the country. And when it happens the cult leader like control he now enjoys will end such that the POT goes back to being the GOP.
Here's hoping he fires everyone we've ever heard of and replaces them with people we've never heard of. The govt diaper is full and needs to be changed.
"He'll sit right here and he'll say do this, do that! And nothing will happen. Poor Ike—it won't be a bit like the Army." Harry S Truman The President does not have the power of organizational discipline that an Army 5-star has. The businessman has the power of the purse - the power to decide whether to spend money and what to spend it on. And ultimately the power to fire people, i.e. to stop their paycheck. But that power lies with the House of Representatives and the appropriation process. Trump will be as frustrated as Ike.
His motivation has nothing to do with making the RNC a better, more efficient organization. It has to do with control by installing sycophants. Especially control of how the RNC allocates its financial resources. As in they go to him.
Good. That was his mistake in the first administration was not showing enough of them the door. Then they did all they could to undermine his administration the entire time.
