Jeebus --this administration has got John Belushi's corpse screaming for royalties from these people for earning money off his Bluto impersonation:
An obscure White House office responsible for recruiting and vetting thousands of political appointees has suffered from inexperience and a shortage of staff, hobbling the Trump administration’s efforts to place qualified people in key posts across government, documents and interviews show.
At the same time, two office leaders have spotty records themselves: a college dropout with arrests for drunken driving and bad checks and a Marine Corps reservist with arrests for assault, disorderly conduct, fleeing an officer and underage drinking.
The Presidential Personnel Office (PPO) is little known outside political circles. But it has far-reaching influence as a gateway for the appointed officials who carry out the president’s policies and run federal agencies.
So basically at least two of the "leaders" of an office that is responsible for vetting and placing "qualified" candidates in to key government positions that involve implementing the president's policies and head up federal agencies are of questionable personal character it appears.
But it gets worse dear readers - as you know it must with this President . . . . observe:
Under President Trump, the office was launched with far fewer people than in prior administrations. It has served as a refuge for young campaign workers, a stopover for senior officials on their way to other posts and a source of jobs for friends and family, a Washington Post investigation found. One senior staffer has had four relatives receive appointments through the office.
On the campaign trail, Trump pledged to surround himself “only with the best and most serious people,” but his administration has been buffeted by failed appointments and vacancies in key posts.
From the start, the office struggled to keep pace with its enormous responsibilities, with only about 30 employees on hand, less than a third of the staffing in prior administrations, The Post found. Six senior officials over age 35 went elsewhere in government just months after their arrival, documents and interviews show. Since the inauguration, most of the staffers in the PPO have been in their 20s, some with little professional experience apart from their work on Trump’s campaign, The Post found.
Even as the demands to fill government mounted, the PPO offices on the first floor of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building became something of a social hub, where young staffers from throughout the administration stopped by to hang out on couches and smoke electronic cigarettes, known as vaping, current and former White House officials said.
PPO leaders hosted happy hours last year in their offices that included beer, wine and snacks for dozens of PPO employees and White House liaisons who work in federal agencies, White House officials confirmed. In January, they played a drinking game in the office called “Icing” to celebrate the deputy director’s 30th birthday. Icing involves hiding a bottle of Smirnoff Ice, a flavored malt liquor, and demanding that the person who discovers it, in this case the deputy director, guzzle it.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/behind-the-chaos-office-that-vets-trump-appointees-plagued-by-inexperience/2018/03/30/cde31a1a-28a3-11e8-ab19-06a445a08c94_story.html?utm_term=.4643af50cc87
The Gadfly would like to know in what fucking alternate universe do people reside, who are of the belief that the definition of "the best and most serious people" consists of a bunch of shiftless, unqualified offspring of lobbyists and political donors, and campaign flunkies, who have basically set up a frat house in the White House, and laze around "vaping" and chugging Vodka all day?
What the fuck is going on in this administration? Who the fuck is in charge? The Gadfly will answer his own question - obviously nobody.
No wonder Putin and the Russians are publicly boasting and mocking the U.S., claiming that they could easily annihilate the United States with their supposed brand new missile technology. The Russians are laughing because they are full of confidence that they will not be receiving any serious push back from Comrade Donny and his fearless brigades of Animal House douche-bags.
Donald Trump is putting this nation's national security at grave risk with his chaotic, vastly and poorly understaffed, undeniably incompetently staffed, and quite possibly compromised hand-crafted government.
The Mueller investigation is looking more and more every day like it is quite possibly going to be - or perhaps has to be - the savior of western democracy and liberty in the world. And it ought to be a chilling prospect to every American knowing that one man carries that measure of burden on his shoulders.
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