Hillary Clinton and her staff were so sure that she was going to win the election in November that they had already assembled their shortlist of people for top government jobs, a report reveals.

Mike Allen, formerly of Politico and now with Axios, released a list showing how Team Clinton had begun allocating the patronage jobs that would come with their expected Nov. 8 election win.

As Allen notes, Clinton had “astonishingly specific, widely known/accepted roles planned for her administration.” Allen also explains that the list was compiled from “interviews with numerous Clinton insiders” and shows she had moved well beyond the metaphorical “measuring of the drapes” to a thought out organizational chart.

Allen’s list is so detailed that Clinton had even picked several foreign ambassadors and even daughter Chelsea’s “chief of staff.” it’s a veritable Who’s Who of Clinton donors and apparatchiks of Washington D.C.

In many cases, Clinton had several candidates already sussed out for each of the positions she would have needed to fill if she had become the 45th president of the United States. Looking at this list proves the U.S. dodged more than one bullet with her loss.

Some of the more astonishing picks were John Podesta for Secretary of State. It was his lax computer security measures that caused many “wikileaks” headaches for the team in the run-up to Nov. 8.

Another interesting part of the list was that Clinton was thinking of retaining Obama’s highly politicized Attorney General, Loretta Lynch.

And to show that the Democratic Party’s’ internal competing interest groups were a consideration ahead of mere qualifications, a telling entry was this: “EPA: Likely an African American (and/or at Education).”

Some political allies were going to get soon-to-be-selected “big jobs.” They include Sen. Cory Booker and Leah Daughtry, who helped organize the Democrats’ convention. Major donors, such as Elizabeth Bagley, were to be given prestigious ambassadorial slots.

 

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