Tucked away in the Mueller report are stories of President Trump’s aides ignoring or rejecting his ideas. While their actions ultimately protected the presidency — their decision to say ‘no’ cost them their jobs.
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What happens when people tell Trump ‘no’
According to data by the Brookings Institution, the Trump administration has undergone more turnover than any other President in recent history. How can the administration keep aides from leaving the White House?
SOURCES AND FURTHER READING:
Trump’s turnover problem | With Chris Cillizza
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKhIa_bIoa0
The Mueller Report
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/5955118-The-Mueller-Report.html
10 takeaways from the Mueller report release — and what happens next
https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/18/politics/donald-trump-bill-barr-william-barr-mueller-report/index.html
Ignoring Trump’s Orders, Hoping He’ll Forget
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/05/trump-aides-ignore-president/589489/
The incredible turnover in Trump’s Cabinet in 1 photo
https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/05/politics/sotu-photo-comparison-2017-2019/index.html
Mueller report shows how Trump aides sought to protect him and themselves
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/439651-mueller-report-shows-how-trump-aides-sought-to-protect-him-and
A survival guide for the Trump White House
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/04/how-key-aides-have-survived-trump-white-house/587038/
The many ways to leave the White House
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/29/us/politics/white-house-firings-resign.html
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@Bully Olly lying implies being purposefully misleading. Give me one example of him doing that.
when he goes full dictator he’ll be doing as the arabs and cutting off heads.
Foreign ministers etc, he’ll have fired from their job with threats of sanctions or war.
If there is one thing that autocrats hate more than anything else it’s naysayers.
So…..basically we got a modern day Nixon in office and no one is doing anything about it. Well then, guess I’m going to smoke weed in front of the police station. 🤷🏿♂️
Sounds like maybe you should just hang yourself? 🤷🏻♂️
Many former Trumpers at least saved Trump from damaging the nation further. Saved him from himself.
grow up and act like an American.. Democrats are no longer good Americans.. Go worship Omar loser
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Mr. President Donald J Trump greatest president in the history of United States 🇺🇸
@texas thunder That’s the spirit.. America first.. Trump 2020
Democrats are in process of eating their own. Example – Pelosi And AOC
TRUMP 2020🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
He wants YES MEN . it’s funny when conservative say FREE THOUGHT when trump hires yes men and fire anyone with a opinion of their own .
@michaelthemovieman Name 3 specific instances of your allegations. Who was fired and pls make sure they were not fired for their incompetence?
But you are free to think whatever – they tell you to. Free thought = whatever you want to think. As long as it is exactly what conservatives tell you. You are totally free to share their opinion.
@nand nicarrabla Stanley McChrystal, David Petraeus and Michael Flynn all disagreed with Obama and were fired by him for it. Oops. You lose.
@michaelthemovieman Name one. Just one. Besides, cute whataboutism, but this is about the insane dodderer in the WH and the flock of sheep – oops -his administration. And the former GOP, now trumpublican party. trump claims: the earth is flat and his lemmings shout YESYESYES and try to jump over the edge.
michaelthemovieman you guys are arguing about the wrong thing. the president is allowed to have yes men to carry out his orders and can fire them if they disagree with him and get in the way of executing policy but there’s an unspoken understanding that the president’s orders would all be legal. Trump ordered Mcgahn to get rid of Mueller (obstruction) and Mcgahn was gonna resign because of it. Trump tried to have Jeff Sessions unrecuse himself and get Mueller to look only at future election interference (obstruction again) and forget about what happened in 2016. I don’t think any of this is comparable to anything that happened in the Obama administration (although I’m sure you’ll be able to find something) and even if there was something comparable let me let you in on a little secret: OBAMA ISN’T THE PRESIDENT ANYMORE!
Thicc stuff news aw yea 😂😂😂🇨🇦
Yes-men do not occur because of friendliness or fondness. They arise out of fear or disengagement.
EXCELLENT REPORTING!! Clarity at its finest..
The problem is that Trump has been running his big businesses for so long, he’s never had to deal with people telling him no.
He’s a real leader. Hail Trump 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇺🇸🇬🇧🇺🇸🇬🇧🇺🇸🇬🇧🇺🇸🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇺🇸🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
Michael Wilson Yes👍👍👍👍 Trump 2020
Basically every word Sir Kim Darroch said was true.
To many yes men or women around this fool. But it’s not surprising because it’s been that way for him his entire life.
This should be used as evidence that can show the pattern of his lawless mentally unfit state of mind.
Like he said he can get away murder and it’s being proved everyday
“Nobody disobeys my orders.” – Donald Trump
That’s the language of tyrants and dictators.
Or leaders… Why don’t you focus on record low unemployment for all minority’s and lowest unemployment since 1969 ?
Jow Bloe 👈guess you didn’t check the Dow today did ya.
Trump 2020
…and people who will be President until 2024.
When people tell Trump no, he banishes them to the cornfield.
This is the “store brand” version of
Carlos Maza
Trump is a runaway demagogue who must be stopped.
If it’s possible to work for Donald Trump and still remain an honest person, we haven’t seen evidence of it yet.
They aren’t people, but mostly criminals for the country of USA.