{"id":131955,"date":"2016-11-07T07:34:54","date_gmt":"2016-11-07T14:34:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/11\/07\/the-people-who-would-work-for-trump.html"},"modified":"2016-11-07T07:34:54","modified_gmt":"2016-11-07T14:34:54","slug":"the-people-who-would-work-for-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/11\/07\/the-people-who-would-work-for-trump.html","title":{"rendered":"The People Who Would Work for Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Current top contenders for various posts in the hypothetical Trump administration:<\/p>\n<p>Attorney General <b>Rudy Giuliani<\/b> (it&#39;ll be great, because he has lots of contacts in the FBI already!)<\/p>\n<p>Secretary of Defense (or NSA Chief) <b>Michael Flynn<\/b> (where he might learn exactly how fast emails can be scanned for content)<\/p>\n<p>Secretary of State <b>Newt Gingrich<\/b> (because who needs NATO, or other allies?)<\/p>\n<p>Chief of Staff <b>Reince Priebus<\/b> (obvious anagram) <\/p>\n<p>And, yes, I&#39;m sure there&#39;s all sorts of evils lurking in the hearts of prospective Clinton appointees, but, really, honestly, <i>these<\/i> guys? (And, noteworthily and not surprisingly, the mention names are all <i>guys).<\/i> The only thing that will make them look good is their boss.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/goo.gl\/news\/UOkqV'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/4_0A_h9sG1Hyj2ujWbVWEEifi_uz89SaQVsAl8EKYJqM9v0FehovzsI3d6kz_ot3Q1BLlEWyURAWc9UrN3OU1ayNZfHnypjIvV9eBAbSZlc2Sl9EGtRJ21OP_5NU5kP3b8_h04i6rH22-kPmrYPGmKMG4wpee42ACR6uwp0N-T2hKlc6gD-ZxhWBremOriRWwciD_FE8K_VVzw=w506-h910' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/goo.gl\/news\/UOkqV'>Gingrich and Giuliani could get top jobs in a Trump White House: sources<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nDonald Trump&#8217;s cabinet-in-waiting is taking shape. However, campaign insiders said no decisions have been made or positions finalized.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/BSkWNkNAVFg'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Current top contenders for various posts in the hypothetical Trump administration: Attorney General Rudy Giuliani (it&#39;ll be great, because he has lots of contacts in the FBI already!) Secretary of Defense (or NSA Chief) Michael Flynn (where he might learn exactly how fast emails can be scanned for content) Secretary of State Newt Gingrich (because &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/11\/07\/the-people-who-would-work-for-trump.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The People Who Would Work for Trump&#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_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_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-131955","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":134006,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/07\/31\/nope-no-chaos-here-nothing-to-see-move-along.html","url_meta":{"origin":131955,"position":0},"title":"Nope, no chaos here, nothing to see, move along","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 31-Jul-17 12:46pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Donald Trump always wanted Anthony \"Mooch\" Scaramucci to be in his White House staff. 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