Tom Grey on January 24, 2020 at 3:51 pm said:
ArtD – “skeevy insiders”? I’m sure you’re right. But Trump was expecting, at the time, to make lots of deals with the Dems, and for the Dems to respect his win.
He was wrong.
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Yep. Most of the revelations about corruption are own-goals by the Democrats, the operation of the Streisand effect.

Wikipedia:
The Streisand effect is a phenomenon whereby an attempt to hide, remove, or censor a piece of information has the unintended consequence of publicizing the information more widely, usually facilitated by the Internet.[1] It is an example of psychological reactance, wherein once people are aware that some information is being kept from them, their motivation to access and spread it is increased.[2]

It is named after American entertainer Barbra Streisand, whose 2003 attempt to suppress photographs of her residence in Malibu, California, inadvertently drew further public attention to it. Similar attempts have been made, for example, in cease-and-desist letters to suppress files, websites, and even numbers. Instead of being suppressed, the information receives extensive publicity and media extensions such as videos and spoof songs, often being widely mirrored on the Internet or distributed on file-sharing networks.[3][4]

The illegal Russia set-up was to cover up for Hillary’s illegal bribe acceptance Foundation, and her illegal emails.

I have Herculean dreams of Trump winning in 2020, and Reps taking the House & Senate, and passing new gov’t employment laws that allow quicker dismissal for illegal acts and violations of written policies. Sometimes even “packing Homeland Security” — while eliminating the DOJ & FBI thru 0 budget for a year. To be rebuilt without the current DC Dem bias. I guess that’s one of the few ways to legally clean out the dirty stables.

I have a suspicion that what happened was that Reince Priebus put some skeevy insiders in the White House personnel office and they’ve been generating bum appointments ever since. Also, we have reason to believe that some of the people who were not bums to start out were undermining him later. See Nikki Haley’s account of her conversations with Rex Tillerson.

The number of discretionary appointments which require congressional confirmation is absurd, IMO.

Why do you think he relies so much on family ? The last honest person left DC and environs when Reagan was president.

To stop/ slow down, this corruption. But who at the DOJ will investigate, who will prosecute?

Personnel is policy, and Trump has been lousy on personnel. Virtually all in gov’t not hired by him are against him, and many, if not most, of those hired “for him”, are GOPe deep state folk more than conservatives.

And probably a few Republicans with them.
Why else do you think the Deep State is so successful?

Adam Schiff comes under fire for having his own connection to Ukrainian businessman whose company manufacturers airships and weapons for both the US and Ukraine

China Joe was crying on Morning Joe Show the other day and said the beloved Beau Biden should be running instead of Joe. Why? Beau was just another Dem hack.