Donald Trump Names RNC Chair Reince Priebus Chief of Staff

Drain the swamp!!

Well, maybe not.

Trump hires a GOP insider, power broker, and a guy who knows how everything works as his chief of staff.

Amazing that the guy who promised to stop business as usual is literally hiring the head of a political party.

http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/201...ir-reince-priebus-chief-staff-sources-n683276

Donald Trump has named Reince Priebus, chairman of the Republican National Committee, as his White House chief of staff, NBC News has learned.

Trump's transition team confirmed the appointment.

The Republican, who is serving his third term with the RNC, was reported to be at the top of Trump's shortlist for the key White House position. That list also reportedly included Steve Bannon, Trump's controversial campaign CEO whose website, Breitbart News, has espoused anti-Semitic and nationalist views.

Instead, Bannon will serve as chief strategist and senior counselor to the president, Trump's transition team announced Sunday.

Related: 'Drain the Swamp'? Trump's Potential Cabinet Fills Out With Washington Insiders

The choice of Priebus is certain to comfort establishment Republicans wary that the unpredictable candidate Trump will make a reappearance in the White House — but one that could fuel resentment among the grassroots.

Image: RNC in Cleveland 2016
Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus speaks during the final day of the 2016 Republican National Convention at Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio, on July 21, 2016. MICHAEL REYNOLDS / EPA
Priebus earned respect from Republicans over the course of his six-year tenure as head of the RNC, proving to be a powerful fundraising force who deftly navigated the party through the internal squabbling sparked by the rise of the conservative Tea Party movement following the 2010 election.

Priebus, once Wisconsin's GOP Chairman, has close ties House Speaker Paul Ryan, also a Wisconsin Republican, and could serve as a liason to Capitol Hill who's trusted by both sides.

But the move is likely to fuel concerns among grassroots conservatives who believe Priebus moved too aggressively to consolidate power among the GOP establishment during his tenure as

 

So Trump was supposed to pick some bum off the street? He's not Barack Obama don't you know? Unlike Obama he actually thinks things through and then makes intelligent decisions.

 

If Trump is to be successful he will probably need some insiders who know the ropes in Washington. That is a lesson to be learned from Jimmy Carter who brought in his Georgia boys and he spent more time fighting the Democrats in congress than Republicans. It is also why most historians view Jimmy Carter as being a very below average president. Perhaps the worst since Hoover. Washington moves in its own way and one need people who know that movement in order to take advantage of it. If you don't believe that, just go back to the Carter presidency.

 

I suppose the left would rather he chose the bagboy from the local bodega but that was not to be. Excellent choice

 

OP you are crazy in sounding critical of this pick. He's perfect. He was my pick as discussed in another thread. Definitely the right pick to negotiate with and push on Congress. You have to be an insider to accomplish anything or would you prefer Trump just write hundreds of super restrictive EOs like Obama? Since he couldn't pass legislation?

Can't wait to see the rest of the top 20 spots

 

I think that they wanted someone with a politically correct skin tone or gender regardless of germane experience. They are, in other words, leftists still thinking that this is 2008 and happy that Barack Obama is packing HIS administration with PC style . . . idiots; mostly with no particular qualifications.

 

Preibus was also the Wisconsin GOP party chairman before his ascension to the national level so with Ryan as Speaker he is the perfect fit. I see the constipation in DC getting a big dose of fiber

 

Being chairman of the RNC doesn't carry the same stigma as being chair of the DNC. The DNC had two cheating chair persons one of which had to resign and the other which was caught cheating but didn't resign.

So what's wrong with Trump appointing Reince Priebus chief of staff then?

 

I'm not sure why people get the idea that Trump was going to appoint outsiders to run the Country. He's the outsider, he doesn't need other outsiders by him. Trump needs insiders in his team, people that can show him the ropes but he will be the one that will have the power to call the shots.

i would actually be concerned if Trump appointed a bunch of outsiders, imagine that...

 

Agreed. Trump knows that he must get the existing GOP establishment "stitched-in" in order to marshal the forces and cooperation he must have in order to make the massive corrections in nearly everything now. Radical Democrats will be spring-loaded to fight him like mad dogs over every single thing, great and small, but Trump must project power and authority from a consolidated position of organized, competent strength-in-numbers.

Unfortunately it will also be necessary for Trump to wield a "pen-and-phone" just like our current wonderous President Transparency has for years. Autocracy applied unilaterally in a power vacuum is NOT an attractive way to govern, but when you're following a wanna-be dictator like Obama, then sometimes, like Alexander the Great, you have to cut "the Gordian Knot"....

. "OK, boys... let's go through all of Obama's "Imperial Decrees", one after another...."

 

Drain the swamp........or do as I say, not as I do?


Trump's first major choice of appointees seems to be opposite of what he said in his campaign .

 

You are a troll. He has to work from within. So just keep repeating the first line of your OP since you have nothing else

 

Good, good.

 

Shudder! I can't even imagine wadding through every one of Barack Obama nation-hatred based Executive Orders. Still Trump can stomach it if anyone can.

 

Trumpsters are going to rationalize Trumps picks any way they can. Is this Trump setting himself up to keep his campaign promises or perhaps the outside the bubble guy being absorbed the bubble? The latter is probably to terrifying to consider for most Trumpsters so speculation will be leaning to the former, but speculation it remains.

 

Well to leftists, yes. But then again they actually thought that Barack Obama was a political messiah; and so who really cares what any of them think now. Trump won and they lost and as Obama himself said, "It's now time for them to step to the back of the bus." Having fun yet?

 

This show managerial expertise, something sorely lacking during the past few decades. He needed someone to bridge the gap between outsider and someone with knowledge of the workings of Capitol Hill. He will fill the White House with others loyal to him who share his views that got him elected.

The list is just starting,

 

I picked Priebus days ago but yes your right. Trump didn't give him the tap without flat out asking him are you my guy? Or Ryans? Priebus backed Trump all the way through so his response was that. He's Trumps guy

I want to know who SoS and Attorney General are soooo bad.

 

Nor the byzantine maze of government regulation promulgated in the last 16 years.... The only solution is to take a chainsaw to the Gordian knot and that will take Congressional approbation.

Reince Priebus as Chief of Staff is a good choice and a necessary choice for access to the knot.

:: close with sound of chainsaws screaming ::

Cheers

 

Perhaps you could explain to us how Reince is associated with corruption in DC?

That's right, you can't.

Reince is a great pick, and you know it, you just don't want to admit it.

 

Indeed, I myself voted for Trump, and he has not disappointed.

 

He gave Bannon the more important job. CNN is having a meltdown over Bannon as we speak. They're not even talking about Priebus.

 

Maybe. Im of the opinion a successful Trump presidency looks pretty much like your run of the mill GOP administration with run of the mill GOP policy. For me lobbyist and names like Newt Gingrich, John Bolton, Mike Flynn are good news, shouldnt be for Trumpsters though.

 

And the people that belong to the DNC, the most corrupt organization in politics, will keep blaming everyone else besides themselves. It's a pretty standard progressive policy.

I look forward to more progressive whining about obviously good decisions.

Thanks for the support from PA!

 

I agree its a good decision. Establishment guys for an establishment administration is much more preferable to a Trump off the rails scenario.