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babylonsister

(170,964 posts)
Wed May 17, 2017, 12:14 PM May 2017

Trump's Loyalty Crisis: He demands it from everyone, but gives it to no one.

Trump's Loyalty Crisis

Paul Waldman

May 15, 2017


"I just feel that loyalty is a very, very important part of life, not only of business but of life," said Donald Trump last year. He has been quoted saying similar things for years, and his underlings have learned to echo him. "This campaign, above all other things, is about loyalty," said Corey Lewandowski last April, when he was managing Trump's campaign. Two months later, Lewandowski was fired.

The truth is that Trump demands loyalty from everyone but gives it to no one. As he prowls the darkened hallways of the White House at night, alone with his thoughts, his wife and young son 200 miles away, the staff having retired for the night, it wouldn't be surprising if Trump is becoming increasingly convinced that no one is loyal to him and there's no one he can trust.


Almost no one, anyway. He has a small number of aides whose loyalty can't possibly be questioned, starting with Jared and Ivanka and extending to a few longtime factotums like Keith Schiller, who started as his bodyguard, then became his head of security, and now works in the White House in a vaguely defined role. It was Schiller whom Trump sent to FBI headquarters to deliver the letter informing James Comey he was being fired, and that firing is showing just how consumed Trump is with who's standing by him and who isn't.

According to Comey's associates, when the FBI director was summoned to a dinner at the White House in January, the president asked for a pledge of loyalty, one Comey declined to give. Though the White House denies that the exchange took place, it isn't hard to imagine. If Comey had expected a free pass for all but putting Trump in the White House, he was disappointed; you have to keep on proving to Trump that you're on his team. And by continuing the investigation into the Russia scandal, Comey showed he wasn't.

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Trump's Loyalty Crisis: He demands it from everyone, but gives it to no one. (Original Post) babylonsister May 2017 OP
And anyone who doesn't know that is either willfully ignorant... Orsino May 2017 #1

Orsino

(37,428 posts)
1. And anyone who doesn't know that is either willfully ignorant...
Wed May 17, 2017, 12:16 PM
May 2017

...or a recent immigrant from Anarctica.

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