The establishment wants to wrestle away control of the GOP from Donald Trump.
One of their schemes is never going to get off the ground.
And the GOP establishment got some crushing news about Donald Trump that they will hate.
Donald Trump prepares for a potential second term
Former President Donald Trump would only have four years left in the White House if he won this year because of term limits.
He has to hit the ground running if he’s elected and he’s going to have a big mess left behind by President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris to clean up.
One of the things that hampered Trump during his first term in office was staffing for his administration.
Too many “Swamp” creatures and members of the Republican establishment played key roles for Trump during his first years.
Now, he has some knowledge of how Washington, D.C. works and who he can trust to work for him.
Donald Trump Jr. is serving as the gatekeeper for Trump’s transition team to keep the establishment from infiltrating and undermining his father’s administration.
He’s working on putting together a list of names to use to staff a potential second Trump administration if everything goes right on Election Day.
Trump officials who resigned after January 6, 2021, in protest and staffers who were disloyal to the former President are automatically being struck from the list.
Insiders told Politico that Trump wants to run a tighter ship in a potential second term and avoid the leaks to the media that characterized his first term.
A more efficient Trump transition operation is underway
Myron Ebell was the leader of the transition at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for Trump after the 2016 Election.
“It’s a good idea,” Ebell said about keeping lists of who to keep out of Trump’s second term.
“During the first Trump transition, I had a typewritten sheet, which I did not have electronically, which I gave to people in the personnel shop called, ‘Over my dead body,’” Ebell said. “The list kept getting longer as I thought of more people that I had thought of originally.”
Ebell put on the block list members of former President George W. Bush’s administration who were “soft green Republicans.”
He also included anti-Trump Republicans, even if they hadn’t come out publicly against Trump.
Ebell called his effort during the 2016 transition a success.
“The only people who got jobs that should have been on the list were people that I didn’t even think to put on the list like Ryan Zinke,” Ebell said.
Representative Ryan Zinke (R-MT) served as Trump’s Interior Secretary during his first term before resigning in 2019.
Trump Jr. told the Wall Street Journal that his role in the transition was “just preventing the bad actors from getting in.”
“There’s a lot of people that put the R next to their name, but then they do whatever the swamp wants, because they’re looking for the next consulting gig or something like that,” Trump Jr. said. “We’re doing a lot with vetting. My job is to prevent those guys, more so than actually picking people.”
Donald Trump is already laying the groundwork to make a potential second term a big success.
