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THE BIGGEST QUESTION OF ANOTHER TRUMP PRESIDENCY IS: WHO WILL WORK FOR HIM?
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A recent New York Times/Siena poll found that former President Donald Trump
leads President Biden 48% to 43%. REUTERS/Marco Bello
You don’t need to listen carefully to hear the howls.
They follow a New York Times/Siena poll earlier this week that showed that if
the presidential election were held today, Donald Trump would beat Joe Biden by
48% to 43%.
Now that Nikki Haley has dropped out, it’s clear that Trump is going to be the
Republican nominee for president.
And barring Dr. Jill Biden stepping in and telling Joe that his best days really
might be behind him, Joe Biden will be the Democratic nominee.
If Democrats and never-Trumpers are still hoping one more indictment — perhaps
the 140th — might finally bring down Trump, they should probably abandon such
hopes now.
But there is one thing that nobody is thinking about that they ought to be.
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If Joe Biden (or any other Democrat) were to win in November, we can pretty much
predict how things will go. Unless it’s an alternative Democratic candidate of
exceptionally strong will, it will be a fourth term of Barack Obama politics,
domestically and internationally.
But Trump? Does anyone know what Trump will do? Well, we have some idea.
The bigger question is: Who will work for him?
It was hard enough during his first term. Back in 2016-17, there was such shock
that he had actually made it to the White House that the initial scramble for
talent was shockingly inept. Remember Omarosa?
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JOE BIDEN LOOKS LIKE A LOSER ON THE EVE OF HIS STATE OF THE UNION
Trump literally surrounded himself with people he knew — not just from his
family, but even just from “The Apprentice.” Most were burned through in no
seconds flat.
Ordinarily people hang around Washington desperate to get into office. But as
the Trump years progressed, two things happened.
The people at the lower ends of the administration started to realize they might
not be highly employable after leaving the administration. Usually having served
in an administration is a top credit on a resume. Not for Trump’s staffers.
And then there were the higher-profile figures in the administration. How many
did he burn through? How many people like Rex Tillerson came into the
administration not all that vetted by Trump, only to be dismissed as “dumb as a
rock”?
Late in the administration, he started to allow people in like John Bolton and
Elliott Abrams. But these were people of whom he had been hugely suspicious, and
in the case of Bolton, he burned through him too.
It was hard to serve more than a year under Trump without him either making a
demand that was too outrageous for you to accept, or running out and publicly
dissing you.
I always imagined that if he had won the 2020 election, other Republicans would
put aside any distaste for the top guy and, for the sake of the country, serve
under him anyway. But that wasn’t to be.
After the fiasco of January 2021, most Republicans wanted to distance themselves
as much as possible from the president. They ran for the hills, scattering
anti-Trump tweets as they went.
So here’s the problem. As we know from his post-2016 refusal to take on
never-Trumpers, if there is one thing Trump doesn’t do, it is forgiveness.
Reconciliation is not among his strong suits.
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AMERICA IS STUCK WITH THE BIDEN-TRUMP REMATCH IT ABHORS — THIS TIME LET’S HAVE A
REAL DEBATE
People like JD Vance who had been critical of the president had to swear fealty
to him at Mar-a-Lago if they wanted to keep his key endorsement for
congressional and senatorial races.
Now people exactly like Vance are demanding that the party get behind Trump
wholesale. As Vance said this week to donors and political professionals, “It’s
time to unite behind our nominee.”
The question, however, is: Will the nominee unite behind them?
There are a few experienced members of the previous administration who may come
back. The excellent Robert Lighthizer at Trade. Maybe Mike Pompeo — who hasn’t
said a rude thing about his former boss.
But elsewhere? It is said that the Heritage Foundation is trying to line up
staffers who could be appointed.
But what about the higher-ups? Never mind all the ambassadorial roles — will
Trump even be able to fill a cabinet?
It’s not going to be easy. Because loyalty is a two-way street. People are loyal
to people who are loyal to them.
And if the Republican Party has not been entirely behind Trump, well, Trump
hasn’t been entirely behind them, either. We’ll see.
It’s just a shame that the stakes are America.
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Now that we’re in an election year, let me make a prediction: This will be the
worst yet. And not just because of the candidates but because of all the
apparatus that now covers our society.
New York Post readers might remember how the media censorship complex intervened
in the last election.
But I predict that the new tools that have come online in just the last four
years are going to make this one even worse.
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BAN OF WWII KISS PICTURE PART OF THE LEFT’S MAD CRUSADE TO ERASE HISTORY
AI-generated images, fake images and much more. All of this means that
fact-checking and verification are going to matter more than ever.
And here’s one tiny example of how ridiculous this can get.
Earlier this week, it was reported that the iconic Times Square Kiss photo
following the end of World War II had been banned from display at the US
Department of Veterans Affairs.
The reason given was that the woman being given a kiss by the US sailor had not
necessarily given “informed consent.”
That happy image seems to be practically rape in the eyes of these prudes.
After a hullabaloo, the department said the memo requesting the removal had been
sent in error.
So the question arises: Did the withdrawal happen or not? The generally wrong
“fact-checking” site Snopes said it was “false” to say that the department had
removed the photo.
The reason? Because the memo requesting the policy had been subsequently
reported to have been sent in error.
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What do you think? Post a comment.
Did it happen or didn’t it?
This is the kind of weird falsehoods our country is getting over a uniformed
memo about a non-informed-consent kiss eight decades ago.
Now imagine what would happen if something happened yesterday with, oh, I don’t
know, Hunter Biden?
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