Tag: Trump loyalty

Donald Trump’s Lies, Misogyny And Loyalty Problems On Full Display In New Attack Ads

The conservative Lincoln Project, progressive MeidasTouch and author Don Winslow targeted the president with their new viral videos.

The anti-Donald Trump attack ads are coming thick and fast on social media from organizations on both sides of the aisle.

Conservative group The Lincoln Project, progressive PAC MeidasTouch and bestselling writer Don Winslow each targeted the president with new supercuts.

The videos, all posted in the 24 hours prior to Tuesday morning, quickly racked up millions of views on social media. Continue reading.

Prerequisite for Key White House Posts: Loyalty, Not Experience

The following article by Sharon LaFraniere, Nicholas Confessore and Jesse Drucker was posted on the New York Times website March 14, 2017:

Omarosa Manigault, the former reality-TV star who is now assistant to the president, speaking with Reince Priebus, Mr. Trump’s chief of staff. Credit Stephen Crowley/The New York Times

President Trump’s point man on Israeli-Palestinian negotiations is a longtime Trump Organization lawyer with no government or diplomatic experience. His liaison to African-American leaders is a former reality-TV villain with a penchant for résumé inflation. And his Oval Office gatekeeper is a bullet-headed former New York City cop best known for smacking a protester on the head.

Every president sweeps into office with a coterie of friends and hangers-on who sometimes have minimal experience in the arcana of the federal government. But few have arrived with a contingent more colorful and controversial than that of Mr. Trump, whose White House is peppered with assistants and advisers whose principal qualification is their long friendship with Mr. Trump and his family. Continue reading “Prerequisite for Key White House Posts: Loyalty, Not Experience”