{"id":4233,"date":"2018-09-28T22:31:29","date_gmt":"2018-09-28T22:31:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/28\/this-guy-doesnt-know-anything-the-inside-story-of-trumps-shambolic-transition-team-the-guardian\/"},"modified":"2018-09-28T22:31:29","modified_gmt":"2018-09-28T22:31:29","slug":"this-guy-doesnt-know-anything-the-inside-story-of-trumps-shambolic-transition-team-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/28\/this-guy-doesnt-know-anything-the-inside-story-of-trumps-shambolic-transition-team-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018This guy doesn\u2019t know anything\u2019: the inside story of Trump\u2019s shambolic transition team |The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fascinating and fairly alarming excerpt from Michael Lewis&#8217; new book:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span class=\"drop-cap\" style=\"font-family:\" guardianegyptianweb\",georgia,serif; float:left; display:inline-block; text-transform:uppercase; font-weight:200; box-sizing:border-box; height:6.5625rem; padding-top:0.0625rem; margin-right:0.25rem; color:rgb(171,6,19); font-size:17px; font-style:normal; font-variant-ligatures:common-ligatures; font-variant-caps:normal; letter-spacing:normal; orphans:2text-indent:0px; white-space:normal; widows:2; word-spacing:0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width:0px; background-color:rgb(255,255,255); text-decoration-style:initial; text-decoration-color:initial; text-align:left;\"><span class=\"drop-cap__inner\" style=\"font-size:8.75rem; line-height:0.7; display:inline-block; vertical-align:text-top; font-weight:900;\">C<\/span><\/span><span style=\"color:rgb(18,18,18); font-family:\" guardiantextegyptianweb\",georgia,serif; font-size:17px; font-style:normal; font-variant-ligatures:common-ligatures; font-variant-caps:normal; font-weight:400; letter-spacing:normal; orphans:2text-indent:0px; text-transform:none; white-space:normal; widows:2; word-spacing:0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width:0px; background-color:rgb(255,255,255); text-decoration-style:initial; text-decoration-color:initial; display:inline!important; float:none; text-align:left;\">hris Christie noticed a piece in the New York Times \u2013 that\u2019s how it all started. The New Jersey governor had dropped out of the presidential race in February 2016 and thrown what support he had behind<span> <\/span><\/span><a class=\"u-underline in-body-link--immersive\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\" data-link-name=\"auto-linked-tag\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" style=\"background: rgb(255, 255, 255); touch-action: manipulation; color: rgb(199, 0, 0); cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none !important; border-bottom: 0.0625rem solid rgba(199, 0, 0, 0.4); transition: border-color 0.15s ease-out 0s; font-family: \" guardian text egyptian web\", georgia, serif; font-size: 17px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-variant-caps: font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: widows: word-spacing: -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\">Donald Trump<\/a><span style=\"color:rgb(18,18,18); font-family:\" guardiantextegyptianweb\",georgia,serif; font-size:17px; font-style:normal; font-variant-ligatures:common-ligatures; font-variant-caps:normal; font-weight:400; letter-spacing:normal; orphans:2text-indent:0px; text-transform:none; white-space:normal; widows:2; word-spacing:0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width:0px; background-color:rgb(255,255,255); text-decoration-style:initial; text-decoration-color:initial; display:inline!important; float:none; text-align:left;\">. In late April, he saw the article. It described meetings between representatives of the remaining candidates still in the race \u2013 Trump, John Kasich, Ted Cruz, Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders \u2013 and the Obama White House. Anyone who still had any kind of shot at becoming president of the United States apparently needed to start preparing to run the federal government. The guy Trump sent to the meeting was, in Christie\u2019s estimation, comically underqualified. Christie called up Trump\u2019s campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, to ask why this critical job had not been handed to someone who actually knew something about government. \u201cWe don\u2019t have anyone,\u201d said Lewandowski.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/sep\/27\/this-guy-doesnt-know-anything-the-inside-story-of-trumps-shambolic-transition-team\">https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/sep\/27\/this-guy-doesnt-know-anything-the-inside-story-of-trumps-shambolic-transition-team<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fascinating and fairly alarming excerpt from Michael Lewis&#8217; new book: Chris Christie noticed a piece in the New York Times \u2013 that\u2019s how it all started. The New Jersey governor had dropped out of the presidential race in February 2016 and thrown what support he had behind Donald Trump. In late April, he saw the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3pfIY-16h","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}