{"id":131136,"date":"2016-07-20T20:18:35","date_gmt":"2016-07-21T02:18:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/07\/20\/because-of-course-donald-trump-wants-to-bring-back-the-patronage-system.html"},"modified":"2016-07-20T20:18:35","modified_gmt":"2016-07-21T02:18:35","slug":"because-of-course-donald-trump-wants-to-bring-back-the-patronage-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/07\/20\/because-of-course-donald-trump-wants-to-bring-back-the-patronage-system.html","title":{"rendered":"Because OF COURSE Donald Trump wants to bring back the patronage system"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Because &quot;You&#39;re Fired!&quot; are his favorite words. Right after, &quot;And now you owe ME a favor.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>(Oh, by the way, Gov. Christie and Reuters, you might want to actually do some research before resurrecting old libels of the Clinton days. <a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/VHETby\">http:\/\/goo.gl\/VHETby<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-election-trump-purge-exclusive-idUSKCN10003A'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/bRfqouGMCt5YVvgCOig9CNe8F_ebdAdjrGo_-1EBd_VAdsA--phqlPS2_-mqI3eMiNv47uMYh9Dzo-Ja8sL0Lsb6_TItMORwm8yj6zb003CxpXSdB2ywPfrzOc0WsqhW3GDK0WRJJqa9pNPpDm2zzFTTnKUV5NOF8fzrALIKCQ=w506-h910' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-election-trump-purge-exclusive-idUSKCN10003A'>Exclusive: Trump could seek new law to purge government of Obama appointees<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nIf he wins the presidency, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump would seek to purge the federal government of officials appointed by Democratic President Barack Obama and could ask Congress to pass legislation making it easier to fire public workers, Trump ally, Chris Christie, said on Tuesday.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/WonmxnQXE82'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because &quot;You&#39;re Fired!&quot; are his favorite words. Right after, &quot;And now you owe ME a favor.&quot; (Oh, by the way, Gov. Christie and Reuters, you might want to actually do some research before resurrecting old libels of the Clinton days. http:\/\/goo.gl\/VHETby) Exclusive: Trump could seek new law to purge government of Obama appointees If he &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/07\/20\/because-of-course-donald-trump-wants-to-bring-back-the-patronage-system.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Because OF COURSE Donald Trump wants to bring back the patronage system&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":132686,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/01\/29\/candidate-for-life-donald-trump.html","url_meta":{"origin":131136,"position":0},"title":"Candidate-for-Life Donald Trump","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 29-Jan-17 12:39pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Yes, if you watch live TV, you may run into what looks like a campaign ad for Donald Trump. 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