Trump's #1 spokesman said he won't be considering a woman or a minority for veep, because that'd be pandering.
In 2016, women & minorities have been EXCLUDED from a hiring process because of a possible perception issue. Unreal.
Unbelievable. Trump's own spokesman saying Trump won't be willing to do all of the job as president. Perhaps the VP choice is MORE important than the prez pick on the republican side? He doesn't want this job.
Also he said no minority or woman will be chosen, as that'd be seen as "pandering". Illegal to exclude women/minority from a job before even starting interviews? LOL. unreal.
Paul Manafort, a controversial Republican lobbyist, joined Donald Trump’s team in late March, and at least initially, his task was to help oversee delegate recruiting. It wasn’t long, however, before Manafort worked his way up to effectively running the entire operation: less than two months after joining the campaign, he’s now Trump’s campaign chairman and chief strategist.
Yesterday, Manafort sat down with the Huffington Post’s Howard Fineman for a fairly long interview, and while the two covered quite a bit of ground, there was one exchange in particular that stood out for me.
The vice presidential pick will also be part of the process of proving he’s ready for the White House, Manafort said.
“He needs an experienced person to do the part of the job he doesn’t want to do. He seems himself more as the chairman of the board, than even the CEO, let alone the COO.”This is no small acknowledgement. For months, it’s been clear that Trump has no meaningful understanding of public policy or even how government works at a basic level. By any fair measure, his ignorance and incompetence about affairs of state is unlike anything Americans have ever seen in a major-party presidential candidate. The question has long been when we can expect Trump to get up to speed.
And the answer is, he has no intention of doing any such thing. Day-to-governing and overseeing the executive branch apparently represent “the part of the job he doesn’t want to do.”
President Trump, in other words, would prefer to be more of a big-picture kind of guy who isn’t overly concerned about details and roll-up-your-sleeves kind of work.
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/there-are-presidential-duties-trump-doesnt-want-doWe should not, however, expect to see diversity on the Republican ticket. Choosing a woman or a member of a minority group to run as vice president, Manafort said, “would be viewed as pandering, I think.”
