A spirit of petty vengeance: Trump’s desire to purge all Obama appointees could do major damage.
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Date: 12/01/2017

Trump Breaking News Network - A spirit of petty vengeance: Trump’s desire to purge all Obama appointees could do major damage.

One might think an incoming president would find some middle ground between completely purging the executive branch of the pernicious influence of his predecessor and not crippling the ability of many agencies to function.

Then one remembers the incoming administration will be headed by Donald Trump, who never met a scorched-earth scenario he didn’t want to carry out, when it involves staffing his government or threatening lawsuits against women who have accused him of sexual harassment. And with a team of far-right cronies advising him, he seems poised to rid the executive branch of anyone connected to President Barack Obama the moment he lifts his hand from the Bible.

But for what? What is the reason for leaving crucial posts unfilled for months, thus leaving at least some government workers twiddling their thumbs with no direction for carrying out a new administration’s mission?

It might be something as simple as the fact that Trump, who had no idea what he was getting into when he ran for president, thinks he can replace an ambassador as easily as he can replace a banquet manager at his casino. Or it might be his alpha-male need to assert dominance. What better way to do that than with the governmental equivalent of a corporate takeover?

According to a Monday report, the Trump team demanded the resignation of the two heads of the National Nuclear Security Administration as of Jan. 20, with no nominees waiting in the wings to replace them, and this would be just the latest in a list of examples of the new administration’s getting ahead of itself in its zeal to put its stamp on the government. Last week The New York Times reported that Trump has demanded that all ambassadors and envoys appointed by Obama to a foreign country turn in their resignations as of noon on Inauguration Day, leaving some critical foreign embassies without a representative to head them.

It is one thing for small nations without major geopolitical roles to lack an American ambassador for a while. (I suspect Barbados, for example, will manage just fine.) But it is quite another for every ally in a busy geopolitical realm – like, say, all of Europe, Asia and South America – to go without. Traditionally, some ambassadors stay on in their posts for months or even years to soothe the nerves of certain allies and provide a bridge from the old administration to the new one.


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