During the 1st term the people who hated Trump decried how he played the Executive branch as a mob boss where no dissident was given. Well in reality his White House staff was full of people who were vetted and trained by Republican groups to be sent to his team. It was only until John McEntee came along where real Trump loyalists were employed.

One of the people that sent Trump staffers was the “America First Policy Institute” a self proclaimed “pro Trump” group that in reality filled his team with Neocons are now feuding with him as he decides this time he is personally selecting the staffers and who is employed in the Executive branch.

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The America First Policy Institute was supposed to add the ideological heft to Donald Trump’s ad hoc, seat-of-your-pants policymaking. But a year out from Election Day, Trump’s allies are signaling that the group may be doing more harm than good—and the campaign is making it clear that Trump, not any outside group, will be in charge of staffing up another White House.

The Daily Beast reviewed an internal AFPI email showing staff inside the organization collecting names and seeking recommendations for future Trump administration posts. When Trump campaign operatives got word of that effort, they saw it not only as premature, but also not AFPI’s place.

But more to the point, Trump’s associates are telling the think tank to back off from its donors, fearing that AFPI may be cannibalizing campaign contributors and confusing those who want to directly help Trump’s 2024 effort.

Two of Trump’s top advisers—Susie Wiles and Chris LaCivita—took the notable step of issuing a joint statement earlier this week clarifying that outside groups do not “speak for President Trump or his campaign.”

“Therefore, these reports about personnel and policies that are specific to a second Trump Administration are purely speculative and theoretical,” they said. “Any personnel lists, policy agendas, or government plans published anywhere are merely suggestions.”

Wiles and LaCivita were apparently reacting to efforts by some people at AFPI and the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 to present themselves as the Trump White House-in-waiting. A key pitch to donors of these groups has apparently become that these staffers will have tremendous power in the next administration; giving now is seen as one way to curry favor later.

But Trump’s team is apparently so fed up with that pitch that it dispatched its two top leaders to set the record straight.

Trump sees how all the donor class and the think tanks have abandoned him after 2020 and he is deciding accordingly. He knows what is best and is now deciding everything for the 2nd term to ensure it would get things done.

His mob boss style is why people like him compared to the losers in the GOP who want to run the White House in the most un-scandalous, non “fascist” way possible and excuse any fallbacks by saying we can do it next election.

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