Trump Finds It Harder To Recruit Talent As Scandals Pile Up
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 Trumps 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 campaigns 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, Trumps 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
I thought the "Party" line was that these jobs were "unnecessary".
C_U_L8R
(44,996 posts)It'd be career suicide... even for the rightest rightwinger
Phoenix61
(16,999 posts)is talented lawyers, really, really talented lawyers.
Julian Englis
(2,309 posts)n/t
Ilsa
(61,691 posts)They are used to paid positions on boards where they do a little reading, but not much of anything else.
volstork
(5,399 posts)I was unaware that he had recruited ANY talent... unless you count melanic's "modeling" skillz.
TNNurse
(6,926 posts)tanyev
(42,541 posts)Julian Englis
(2,309 posts)n/t
Julian Englis
(2,309 posts)He's only banned from Alabama politics. Plus, he's a dermatologist so he could really help Bannon.
abbeyco
(1,555 posts)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
(50,549 posts)FrodosNewPet
(495 posts)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.
Aristus
(66,309 posts)He is trying to recruit talent? Who knew? I thought he was just trying to recruit ass-kissers...
0rganism
(23,935 posts)his ass is used to being kissed by only the BEST toadies. THE BEST!
spiderpig
(10,419 posts)Cha
(297,047 posts)Hillary and Obama.
spiderpig
(10,419 posts)ready to hop aboard the leaking-like-a-sieve Good Ship Trump.
mahatmakanejeeves
(57,376 posts)JHB
(37,158 posts)Gosh, must be quite a mess that not even Chachi In Charge can straighten it out!
Crowman2009
(2,494 posts)How long does a typical career at a Trump venture last? A few months?
IronLionZion
(45,409 posts)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
(59,583 posts)He's tanned, rested, ready and freshly entangled in a divorce and custody fight involving accusations that he's using meth.
Winning!