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Trump's people problem goes far beyond RFK Jr.

Trump's people problem goes far beyond RFK Jr.

The president-elect has 4,000 jobs to fill, and the early appointees are all over the map

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Nov 18, 2024
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In the summer of 1980, Ronald Reagan campaign coordinator Lee Atwater turned to an aide who was in his mid-20s.

“Can you find 900 people for us in the next 40 days?” Atwater asked. “I sure can,” said Scot Faulkner, recalling, decades later, his “youthful certainty” that he could staff the general election campaign against President Jimmy Carter.

“On Augu…

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