Cenk Uygur
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Spurned Trump Backers Go Rogue
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December 14, 2016
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8:25Now PlayingThose who backed Trump throughout the election are now wondering why they don’t have cabinet positions. Cenk Uygur, host of The Young Turks, breaks it down. Tell us what you think in the comment section below.
“President-elect Donald J. Trump boasted throughout the presidential campaign of his loyalty as a singular quality. “Folks, look, I’m a loyal person,” Mr. Trump said at a CNN town hall in April, explaining why he would not rid his campaign of a staff member who was under fire.
Loyalty appears to be paramount for Mr. Trump, until it isn’t.
Some of Mr. Trump's earliest supporters — among them Rudolph W. Giuliani, Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey, Sarah Palin, Newt Gingrich and Mike Huckabee — have not fared well in the job sweepstakes. On top of that, they have been left in the December cold while Mitt Romney, a leader of the “never Trump” movement, has been wooed by the president-elect’s advisers for secretary of state.
“It kind of reminds me of the Reagan administration,” said Roger Stone, a long-serving informal adviser to Mr. Trump who met with him at Trump Tower last week. “We used to have a running joke where it was news if somebody who supported Reagan got a job.”
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