For the past several weeks and months I have been asked to present thoughts on potential candidates for offices in/around the Trump administration if they can achieve victory in the 2024 election. Essentially, if Trump wins, “who” would be best in “what” positions?
I have been extremely reluctant to put something together like this because ultimately, I look at the challenges with a different perspective. Additionally, I am not confident that key people understand the complexity of the problem and as a result would not absorb the context of any suggestions I might offer. However, after careful thought, prayer and reflection, a slight change in the presentation might actually be beneficial.
In the next few weeks, I am going to write very specifically about who might be best suited for roles and responsibilities. Not from the perspective of the person per se’, but rather from the perspective of a fully understandable context for the position; the reality of what can be pragmatically accomplished, and detailed reasoning for why the challenge they will face exists.
This first introduction of sorts is a beginning with the end in mind, an introduction.
It is NOT my intent to provide a private list of recommendations. What I want to do is set the cornerstone of how each role can predictably be anticipated to engage with each challenge, and ultimately what I believe they will have to do in order to make progress. This is a public series of non-pretending presentations, where all of the traditional civic perspectives that people have might be challenged.
Roles and responsibilities are only valuable if we define and accept the problem from the same perspective. It is with that thought in mind that such an undertaking begins.
If successful in the 2024 election, President Trump will have one 4-year term to begin charting a new course within our government.
President Trump cannot be expected to fix or repair all of the damage created within our Constitutional Republic in one term. However, it is possible for President Trump to set the cornerstones in place that ensure the greatest likelihood of success for a modern restoration.
I am not going to repeat the background context for how the current landscape was created. That is available HERE, within the discussion of the Fourth Branch of Government. Under the CTH category filing system in the right-hand margin, you will now find a sub-category “2025 – Term 2” under the primary category “President Trump.” All of these articles will be filed there, as published.
The current staffing challenge is about removing the cancerous cells that have been seeded deep within the institutions.
The Intelligence Community created the disease, then used the politicians to sell the cure.
In the era shortly after 9/11, the DC national security apparatus was constructed to preserve continuity of government and simultaneously view all Americans as potential threats. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) were created specifically for this purpose. Then things went sideways… (more)
The challenge is obviously multifaceted with three infected systems, branches, attacking both domestic and foreign policy against the interests of the American people. President Trump can address the Executive Branch directly; all other aspects are ancillary to the executive policy. The Legislative Branch fix is then dependent on We The People, and the Judicial Branch fix is an outcome of both.
Within the staffing question, we must begin with a common understanding. Domestically we have authorities created by the Patriot Act, ODNI and DHS to contend with. Externally we have the State Dept and CIA collaboration that also feeds into the larger operational missions of the Intelligence Community. It is this IC that now dominates all issues of consequence, and it is from this perspective we must first address any restoration context.
♦ Executive Policy – Domestic Consequences. There are five or six key positions, most of them holding deputy positions in support. Again, this is from my own boots on ground review, real-time research shared, understandings discovered, and earnest challenges identified.
Within the executive branch, directly connected to the office of the presidency, the six primary domestic IC-centric positions of consequence are:
President Trump Emissary – no confirmation needed.
President Trump National Security Advisor – no confirmation needed.
White House Counsel – no confirmation needed.
Director of the Office of National Intelligence (DNI).
Director of the National Security Agency (NSA).
Secretary of the Dept of Homeland Security (DHS)
And then come the Secretary of State (DoS), and the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). These two are combined because they operate collaboratively as one larger silo with two divisions.
Like a restaurant with a front dining room (State Dept.) and a back kitchen (CIA). The front is visible, the back is not visible. The front cannot function without the back, and the back is dependent on the front for business pretenses. The front is the head, the back is the neck. I am pulling DoS and CIA out of the domestic aspect, along with the Defense Dept (DoD) for a reason that will be identified later.
Overall, each of these BIG silos operates what we call the “National Security” system. They have smaller silos within them, but generally for the intents of the first few positions, these are the critical parts. Emissary, NSA, White House Counsel, ODNI and NSA.
Already, you are probably saying, “wait, what is this emissary thing?” Good. That’s part of the dropping civics non-pretense.
President Trump had before, and will even more critically need again, an exceptional emissary who can convey his thoughts, words and intents to other people – unincumbered by the system itself.
Without the emissary, the embeds within the current national security system will build walls to keep the office of the president isolated.
Those who retain the silo process as an institutional construct to control events, must be confronted by using a process within a system they cannot control. The President must be able to reach out from his office without going through the national security matrix. That’s the importance of the emissary.
By now, everyone should understand the Trump Doctrine: “Economic Security is National Security.” Every successful outcome that benefits Americans comes from the expressed policy of using economics as a tool and a weapon to achieve security, domestically and abroad.
I am going to begin this series of staffing outlines with a discussion of the “Emissary.” Their role, their responsibilities, the challenges they face, the personal characteristics and traits needed, how they interact within the system and a full understanding of exactly how critical this person is for the voice of the office of the president.
Two Big Picture Contextual Articles:
Understand The Fourth Branch
Understand The Trump Doctrine
Next, we begin the specifics. Who should be the emissary?
Vivek is already the emmissary in training imo , still dont trust him 100% but his messaging has been soo MAGA polished that i have to a little pause
Vivek as Press Secretary, Kari Lake as Comms director.
Let the pimp slapping the shiznit out of the WH press coups, begin!
All I know is Trump will need watchers watching the watchers. Pence had democrat spies on his staff, the kind of stuff has got to stop. No hires of the ones that never go away. Clean, fresh new start.
Secretary of Health and Human Services, Santa Ono.
Sundance would be a most perfect Emissary… Of course his/her anonymity would be sacrificed. Having followed CTH for sometime, I believe Sundance will do everything he/she can to save America. I am Bigly in favor of Sundance being appointed as Emissary!
I like it 👏 👏 👏
I agree with you, Sundance would be perfect. I disagree with your he/she or his/her usage. Sundance writes in a masculine form. It’s hard for me to explain why I believe this but men and women write/compose differently. You probably know that Sundance is a male so no need to virtue signal, just let your instincts prevail. If I am wrong, Sundance would understand and not be offended.
‘The President must be able to reach out from his office without going through the national security matrix. That’s the importance of the emissary.“
the ability to have ombudsman growing now to emissary, is that anyone in Cabinet, Deputy, Staff must and SHALL be obligated to respond to the Emissary. I see this role as having 25 loyal America First over 50 Americans who are not in politics. Exemplary individuals pulled from life because of their extraordinary demonstrated skills.
Emissary – Ric Grenell
Chief of Staff – Byron Donald
No to Ric.
Devon Nunes for emissary. I don’t think he can be bull-shitted.
Stephen Feinberg has been a trusted friend of President Trump for many years and served on the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board during President Trump’s first term. He has extensive experience in national security and intelligence. That would be a good name to start with.
Ric Grenell.
I second Ric Grennel.
Sundance,
Perhaps you’ve addressed this and I missed it, but what’s your take on the whole Project 2025?
Not the subject of the post and Trump has disavowed having anything to do with it.
It comes up when the subject of staffing of the new administration comes up.
I don’t see why it should.
It’s not a real thing.
Last question in post!
It’s relevant and I’m just asking. Sheesh.
Have i told you lately how much I love this little corner of the world that you have carved out for us?
I have always thought that a Presidential candidate (post convention) should name his cabinet choices early so that they become surrogates of the campaign and get media coverage during the campaign … the more times a mic gets stuck in someone face the better I say … why limit yourself to the candidate and vp candidate … would create a media firestorm … even a hostile media would be forced to talk to the cabinet choices …
In ordinary times, Agree! However, we are a wartime country right now and to announce now would hand too much battle strategy to the usurpers for them to stop the saving of Lady Liberty.
You are correct DBitters. This country is on a wartime footing. And will continue to be until we can in some cases violently take back control of this Republic. The cabinet level picks and deputy positions will have to remain fluid. These positions cannot be announced by PDJT nor would they be by him because of the need for maintaining the “battle strategy”. Again well stated. SD’s approach to building a list is commendable and very useful. There are more eyes on this Treehouse than most imagine and the branches reach out exponentially. Just have faith in God and place these hopes for bright and fearless leaders in HIS hands as well. God Bless Treepers and Keep the Faith.
Naming cabinet choices early would only send these ENEmedia hounds into a frenzy. It would not be pretty. I shudder to think of all the me-too skanks they could dredge up in three months time!
I favor the stealth approach so they can’t see it coming. MAGA should hit em like a freight train!
Lt. Gen. John D. Caine Gen. “Razin” Caine for Sec. Defense
SIR! About TWO WEEKS, SIR!
Eric Trump for Emissary.
I prefer no family. Eric has a big job he needs to fulfill.
I’m skeptical any of this all-star voting will make any real difference.
Approaching this Trump possibility as normie is just not gonna have any lasting impact. He will truly be just a Speed Trump along the way to collapse.
Mega amputation is called for, not just a mole removal.
A lasting change would be a willingness to bring the government to a dead stop to overcome the uniparty senate resistance, but I doubt PT is willing to do that.
The 1000 military bases should be reduced by 90%.
High tariffs should be locked into place for the next 20 years.
The 10 million invaders should be deported in the first three months.
No PT appointee will be allowed to accomplish anything like those. Just minor trimming around the edges no matter who is in place.
MAGA amputation is called for. It’s called a state of emergency and IT WILL BE needed! Deportations and MOAB take downs of the big 3 alphabet agencies. The military will be required during these trying times. Figure the military base thing out later. All-star voting has many advantages. There brightest minds amongst the Treepers is one of those advantages. SD taking the lead is another great advantage. Be skeptical but optimistic too.
Steven Miller or Peter Navarro.
do you mean stephen miller?
he’s the “good” miller! 😁
Stephen Miller is exemplary
Steve Bannon as emissary.
He is brilliant and was sabotaged by the never Trumpers in the first term. Thus, we know his allegiance by his enemies.
Give him the power and it will get done or they will get gone. He is a better back room message conveyor to many other departments than the leader of one single department.
Steve Bannon, who I miss terribly and love to listen to, is simply too militaristic. I am not with him at all on Israel or the Ukraine. He never met a war he didn’t want to win. I am so done with these endless wars half a world away. We need to stop all that including the IC doing coup d’etats abroad and here at home.
And sorry, he does not seem brilliant at all. For one example, his understanding of AI and technology is primitive.
I do think he has great journalistic sense, and he is a fabulous leader and organizer. I picture him as William Wallace or next to Mel Gibson in the movie, Braveheart, with blue warpaint on his face.
I’m not sure if you have listened to War Room in the past 2 years or not but there has been no one calling for an end to this war more than Bannon.
He thinks it’s a hopeless situation, horrible waste of Ukrainian lives and American resources. Has been calling for a negotiated settlement since the beginning.
Agree with that. I think Steve may be the first place I ever heard the phrase Forever Wars – leading to the argument for stopping them.
The RINOS Creed:
Invade the world. Invite the world!
We need neither!
I have listened to Steve Bannon everyday for nearly the full 4 hours and have been for the past 2 years at least. Now I listen to Natalie Winters and the rotating hosts in his absence.
Have you listened during this time period? I doubt it. The man loves war and all things military. The fact that he thinks he could handle Ukraine better than Biden and the dems have done does not mean he wants to end all wars.
His family has served in every war going way back and Mo his daughter went to West Point. It’s a way of life for him.
And what about Israel? I notice you are silent on his comments on Israel.
President Trump brought peace to this earth and he will do it again.
I guess you know little about Bannon. He is rabidly against war in Ukraine, he has an encyclopedic knowledge of world history, and has been on the forefront of discussing AI and transhumanism on Warroom. Obviously you have never watched his show.
I listen daily to the full two hours as I said above. And have for years.
I find his comments on AI sophomoric and I have heard him admit he is a neophyte on AI and defer to others. I do not believe he has a background in computer technology or AI and it shows.
Bannon has an alpha male quality and is a good leader and organizer.
You said “Bannon has an alpha male quality and is a good leader and organizer.”
I agree. That is why I think he would be a good emissary.
His knowledge of world history and current political systems is what is needed more so than AI. I also doubt that even if Bannon wanted to he would not be able to change Trump into a warmonger. Trump’s economic security is national security policy is way too strong.
Alas, no one is perfect. My only criticism of Bannon would be him sometimes utilizing the wrong person, a problem of Trump too. (I say that because some of the people Bannon has on his show are not expert or perhaps snakes, but may be needed to cover certain issues.) However in the position of making sure that the underlings were doing what Trump wanted them to do, I think Bannon would be great.
I thought I heard SB say on program before leaving for his State-sponsored ‘vacay’ that he did not want to be a part of the administration. He wanted to work outside the confines of government to focus on anything (everything) that would dampen the Second Administration. An attack dog, so to speak, and someone who can motivate the base.
I suspect Bannon might actually be onto the same thing. Not part of the administration of the EB but instead an emissary for POTUS. Engaging, inquiring, gathering, liberating structure — an active out-bound filter that doesn’t wait for whistleblowers. Others will hear the engine of inquiry running. The people of bad ideas and bad intentions clinging to power and the vanities of office will know the emissary teams are active, inquiring and listening carefully to what the trenches have to say.
He sort of has to say that in case he is not selected to be in the administration. But just like Ben Carson, if asked by Trump, I think he would serve.
Trump’s allegiance to his son-in-law Jared was the cause of the split between Trump and Bannon. I hope Trump has wised-up. That should never have happened. And still, Bannon is a loyal defender of Trump.
^^^THIS!^^^ Exactly. No family. They run the businesses. Talk to the donors and major players.
Whoever PT picks, I think one of the first thing he needs to do is have a roundtable meeting with all of his agency heads and demand two things:
First, they need to reduce the size of their respective agencies workforces by 20% or more depending on the agency, up to 100%. This needs to be accomplished within the first year.
Second, the bureaucrats that head of these departments need to be fired or retired immediately down the ranks up to 4 levels deep, depending on the agency.
Bonus, if these things are not done as prescribed, you will be unceremoniously replaced … you’re fired.
Take the 20% from the top not the bottom
Both top and bottom… and the middle.
I call your 20% off the top (in a most cordial, we’re mostly all Treepers here manner!) and raise you 20% reduction top and middle. The middle contains most of the permanent bureaucrats that are the real inertia that must be changed.
You know, he would run into Senior Executive Service (SES) issues. It’s really hard to get rid of these guys. I don’t give a fook, get it done. I remember Obama got rid of all the higher military officers who didn’t agree with him. He found a way, corruptly or not, but he did, and look what we have for our military leadership now? A bunch of guys who wear knee pads to their IC and MIC meetings.
The entire SES mechanism is septic. How quickly the subculture becomes a cult. How quickly the cult becomes a monopoly of special interests.
How quickly a monopoly of special interests becomes an institutional malignancy.
It’s everywhere you look in modern governments these days. It’s the world’s greatest problem; the greatest threat to world peace, individual liberty and the sanctity of life.
Presidential Emissary teams. Competent healing response signaling. A vital immune function to liberate and sustain a constancy of guided accountability across the corpus of the modern federal government.
Time to help the good and the best among them to start winning the internal arguments. It needs a better filter with dedicated emissaries to keep the wisdom and insights flowing
All the newest federal employees are DEI drones.
The bottom of the litter box needs to be scraped clean too.
You guys make persuasive arguments. Okay, 20% top, bottom, and middle.
AND anyone with their pronouns in their email profile
Also, I think he should demand that most if not all headquarters of these agencies be moved out of DC to other parts of the country. Heck, open it up to a bidding process, like they do with other types of venues.
I think this decentralization of corruption would work wonders.
If for no other reason, decentralization would be a deterrent to all clandestine communications. Their physical as well as informational silos would cement their irrelevance.
No more ham radios. No more smoke signals. No more walkie talkies. Who would remember they even exist?
Economic strength SD states is needed so cutting staff to get back to 2019 budget at a minimum and getting some control over bureaucracy as a result work together.
However current admin is establishing barriers to keep DJT from this. While he may not be able to fire some levels he can dictate their job.
Remove building, security, and computer access. There job is now to work from home and count rice kernels in their pantry to study shrink-flation and its National security impact.
Then go to the country and tell the people we have a very expensive unemployment program and you need to get your congress person to fix it…
Bring back Douglas McGregor!
MacGregor needs to be DoD, that is the other pretending half of the IC. The IC manufactures, creates, and props up the “enemies” and the DoD plays wack-a-mole all over the globe. There would be no military industrial complex without the IC. MacGregor seems to be well aware of the game being played.
YeeeeeeeeS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It is essential that Republicans take control of the Senate where confirmations will take place.
And yes, I know the place will be full of RINOs with Deep State agendas.
But a Demo controlled Senate??
I don’t have to explain.
Andrew Torba CEO of GAB:
@BasedTorba
Free advice to the Trump campaign
Andrew Torba
@BasedTorba
Why am I, the CEO of Gab, encouraging Trump to post on X again?
Because I love my country more than my own self-interest.
Because I want to win.
Gab will thrive when we win.
Just did a search for “Trump rally” on Google and Kamala was the top result!
Google is so far out of the political closet now it should be wearing a feather boa with a big D brooch.
They’re a monopoly. Break. Them. Up.
Google is the Associated Press equivalent of Big Tech communications…
Just don’t use google…if we all stopped using google it would become way less intrusive and powerful!! Haven’t used it for years
Smithereens should be the order of the day.
MELANIA: intelligent, his closest trusted ally, 5 languages, remember during 1st term at some G20 217 dinner when he placed Melania to sit next to Putin, who was seen laughing, engaging the whole time? She’s the ONLY person who can 100% represent PDJT and has no personal agenda, other than representing her husband in the exact manner he wants to be. She’s HIGHLY intelligent, classy, and never misspeaks. She would have the total respect of all she would interact with and she always dressed to respect the local culture.
She would be PDJTx2.
I believe what you say about Mrs. Trump’s character an abilities.
But consider how much PDJT has already sacrificed in the country’s interests — our interests.
He should be allowed to keep his marriage out of the political fray as much as possible. I think it would be better for him and for us if his wife focused on being exactly that: his wife.
That might be why she doesn’t do it, but I also remember she was his #1 “go to” person in ‘15/‘16 for her opinion of all events on tv. It was her. He values her opinion over everyone else. This journey has been a sacrifice for both, for sure.
You make a good point. Only they can decide. Regardless, I think she’ s the best choice.
Exactly: Honor her calling as wife and mother; there is no higher pursuit than that.
There is a strong possibility the White House will see as much visibility from Melania in term two, as we saw Barron at the RNC convention.
I will miss her greatly. It truly will be this countries loss.
Whatever the position someone is applying for, the litmus test must be is whether or not they felt the 2020 election was rigged. If you need to be more specific, what do they feel about Dominion Software and evidence submitted in the Kari Lake Supreme Court trial or Tina Peters Rosetta Stone or the 382,000 ballot images in Fulton County that disappeared in thin air. If they claim ignorance and say they know nothing then they are not worthy. If they say there was nothing there then they are lying; but either way they get discarded in the scrap heap.
Great idea.
And if they claim ignorance they are also lying.
There’s an awful lot of controversy swirling over Susie Wiles and Chris LaCivita. I haven’t been following it and I don’t know who they are.
You may want to visit the National Pulse http://www.thenationalpulse.com/ . Raheem Kassam has some info about them
Below is an excerpt:
Being tough on Trump in Chicago
Where do the get the nerve to call anybody a racist?
DEI hires are always so arrogant and entitled.
Just goes to show, you can’t defeat racism by inculcating people with racialism.
Racism is Bigotry.
Racialism is a thought disorder. The measure of a human person is not some failed victorian notion about the color of their skin. That conceit is an insanity and a terrible thing to inculcate.
No one is a skin color. Everyone is much much more than that.
The racialists of today are just another version of the same old ugly bigotry.
Te angry black woman schtick is worn.
The race card itself is tattered and torn!
And after what PDJT says here, it should be in pieces on the floor to be swept up with the rest of the garbage.
Excellent! For those who need transcript here it is : it does not however add in applause and cheering by audience to PDJT’s
answers …
https://x.com/CurtisHouck/status/1818718781931192485
Thanks for posting!
Most welcome! Thinking of people who can’t hear
Lindsey Graham and Mike Pompeo must be nowhere near the administration.
No Nikki Haley either. She does not treasure America, and she’s bloodthirsty. So is Pompeo, he’s always looking for people who need killing.
Micheal Berry
I would like him to consider some of the State AGs that have been battling the current administration
No. Sorry. There are some good ones but none nearly as aggressive as they should be.
To effectively get rid of the key Swamp and tentacle operations, I hope we have someone who can effectively put a project in place to get all who, like this woman ; be it DS entities, political, military, media – all platforms, celebrity and businesses, corporations and their useful idiots traced back to them – of those who have CLEARLY espoused/advocated for PDJT’s assassination :
https://x.com/WesternLensman/status/1812315783227130237
Very good. Waiting.
I think Colonel MacGregor would be a great emissary; he’s like the Patton of our times.
YeeeeeeeeeeeeS !!!!!!!
Ric Grenell – He’s already proven that he’s able to interact with the IC and isn’t afraid of the inevitable pushback.
General Flynn is another possibility because he knows how to navigate through the IC better than most.
Don Jr.
He is fiercely loyal to his dad, is well spoken and enthusiastic. And call me crazy, but I think he has a glint of payback in his eyes.
Sundance, I applaud your effort to aid in the manning of the executive. Having focused on this for the DoD, you might find it useful to identify characteristics of who you wouldn’t want in the places of power and influence. For example in the DoD we need to close the revolving door. Recall how Esper worked out from senior exec at RTN to SECDEF. Academia hasnt worked so well either. Ole Woodrow comes to mind. Would be happy to share a detailed tale of DoD when you drill down to that.
SD for Emissary. Perfect fit. How do we tell PDJT?
In all seriousness, I would love our Trump to rectify the 2019 decision of his own IRS director (an Obama appointee that never got replaced, I think) which recognized Satan worship as a legitimate religion, granted it all the same tax breaks any Christian church gets, and quickly turned into all federal courts defending Satan worship equally alongside Christianity, which is now causing us endless problems with Satanic displays in both government buildings and Satan Clubs inside public schools.
The US is now the ONLY of 191 UN member countries to officially recognize Satan worship as being a legal religion, and to support it with tax credits.
This is insane, and will surely lead to nothing but horrid consequences for our nation.
“Do not be deceived, God cannot be mocked..–Galatians 6:7.
Tax exemption is a political dispensation.
Many churches have hamstrung themselves in preaching the gospel and being a voice for good in the nation precisely because they want to keep those perks and not upset some of those political figures in authority and lose it.
Serving God’s will is not something that is going to keep you on the right side of worldly leaders all of the time. Faith leaders should be asking themselves what’s really more important here.
No pastor or church I am aware of has ever challenged in court then-Senator LBJ’s (what a turd that man was, typical Demoncrat) 1954 Johnson Amendment, telling churches they can’t speak on any “political” issues from the pulpit else lose their tax-exempt status. A few pastors i’ve seen (California’s John McArthur for instance) openly defy it, refusing to be silent on abortion (COVID vacs also, big time) etc simply because the Demoncrats claim all moral issues are “political” issues. Yet SCotUS in 70 years has never heard any cases on it, and Bing AI tells me no church in America has ever lost its tax exempt status due to the Johnson amendment. It’s just a threatening noose the Dems keep tied around church’s necks to scare all the soyboy pastors away from talking about “controversial” topics imo. The ACLU tothis very day still refuses to be baited into filing any cases using the Johnson Amendment, which tells me my theory is almost surely correct.
The answer should be clear then.
Not to let threats silence voices of conscience.
People need to be able to communicate and debate about politically controversial ideas which goes straight into the point of the First Amendment.
Satanism is anti – religion. Recall Lucifer’s quote “non serviam/I will not serve”
Shawn Ryan should be the VA Secretary.
Put him on an Emissary team. There are hundreds of SF and other specialists. Let them form battalions of inquiry when needed most. They’re experts at scaling teams. Let the Emissary thing be a spontaneous and dynamic network.
Let it become the tip of the spear for POTUS directed authority to heal the government from within. There are good people there. They know.
We need an engine that creates better champions and captures better ideas to champion.
I look forward to your analysis. Thank you.
Steve Bannon or Ben Carson
You seem to neglect Office of Management and Budget and its Director. I guess there are ways for bureacracy to work around OMB, but handled correctly OMB can be a Trump implementer.
Wasn’t Ben Franklin an emissary?
Ric Grenell springs to mind without much effort.
Ken Paxton for AG
The Emissary should be someone who was not a part of the first administration (or any part of the government previously). He or she must be diplomat but a warrior (spirit) at the same time. Someone exceptionally smart, a problem solver, and 100 percent loyal. For me, that would be either Vivek Ramaswamy or Eric Prince.
Emissary – Ben Carson
Careful. Picking out the drapes too early can be construed as hubris. And we see what Trump just did to those Project 25 people. They deserved even worse, imo.
But cautious framing of the design basis is always a valid exercise. The personalities are what people get stuck on though. That can be a distraction.
I got into an argument with the liberal, know-it-all, adult son of my friend on a backpacking trip this weekend. Sitting around the campfire in a large group, he insisted that Trump backs project 2025. I said PT does not. His Dad was on my side. The 34 year old was leading us into a debate over abortion and my body, my choice stuff. I told him Trump agrees right now with the Supreme Court who declared its a States rights issue – case closed. He wouldn’t take that answer at face value.
As voices began to rise, I eventually shut him up with some logic I recently encountered (maybe here, IDK). I asked him if it was OK for a woman to smoke, drink and do drugs if they we’re pregnant. He said with certainty “no” because it would hurt the baby. We stared at him in silence for a bit before I asked, “what do you think abortion does?”. Discussion ended. Rest of trip was copacetic and uneventful.
As the Trump Doctrine is: “Economic Security is National Security”, we need someone who will focus on the economy, and get it back under our control, and not the Deep State’s. Ending our servitude to the the Federal Reserve is the first step.
I nominate Ron Paul as Emissary.
I think it is a fun exercise!
😀
I’d start with an arsonist….
PDJT benefits from our reaction to the “leaked” suggestions, and from our proposals. Why else do you think public engagement is sought, names are proposed and “leaked”? New, forgotten, and previously hidden information, positive and negative, comes to light. All of which is helpful to PDJT, who does not have the CIA/FBI (or even the GOPe) honestly working for him to vet personnel.
If Sundance or some people here are disappointed with the Vance selection, PDJT needs to know that, and why. Maybe the negative concerns can be addressed so they do not adversely affect the views of ‘independent’ voters?
We also need to think about and propose good selections. Appointments should not only go to people screaming “pick me, I want power”, or those “recommended” by those who control the recommended candidates. This is not a time to “keep discussions private”. The treehouse is not a place for censorship.