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[timelets]

As far as I'm concerned, Comey told the Congress that Trump is a liar and Mueller needs to get him to testify under oath. If Democrats win the House Trump will be impeached. Otherwise, the Covfefe administration will muddle through.

WSJ:

Mr. Trump has met with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, and Mr. Tillerson and Defense Secretary Jim Mattis all have visited the region to address North Korea.

But if you ask Asian governments about the status of the follow-up, they will tell you they don’t know what’s next because the U.S. has no assistant secretary for East Asian and Pacific affairs and therefore no daily liaison executing Mr. Trump’s policy goals. Much of the Trump government is close to becalmed.

The appointee holdup at State is due, in part, to the Trump White House’s virtual ban on anyone in the foreign-policy community who publicly opposed Mr. Trump’s candidacy. Presumably this is about loyalty.

We are into the sixth month of the Trump presidency, and of 558 key positions requiring Senate confirmation, 427 have no nominee.

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[tijd]

High bar to pass:

“In the vetting process there is a lot of scrutiny of social media accounts, Twitter . . . any hint of something negative about Trump as a candidate can be disqualifying, and a lot of people haven’t made it through that filter,” said Christine Wormuth, who served as the Pentagon’s top policy official from 2014 to 2016, under former President Barack Obama’s administration.
The investigation into ties between the Trump campaign and Russian officials is also scaring off people who had been on the fence about joining the administration.
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/white-house/article154052384.html

[timelets]

Any potential employee of the Covfefe administration is required to eat and propagate tons of bullshit.