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12wonderY
References the visual of a sinking ship, i.e.- the crew evacuates rather than stays honor bound to the cause of ... To bail out, jump off the wagon, quit the team.
Jamie Gorelick - Kushner's counsel
Mark Corallo - Trump team spokesperson - Reports said that Mr Corallo disagreed with the alleged strategy of Mr. Trump's lawyers to discredit or limit the Mueller team directing the investigation.
Marc Kasowitz - Trump's longtime legal counsel
Sean Spicer - WH Press Secretary
Jamie Gorelick - Kushner's counsel
Mark Corallo - Trump team spokesperson - Reports said that Mr Corallo disagreed with the alleged strategy of Mr. Trump's lawyers to discredit or limit the Mueller team directing the investigation.
Marc Kasowitz - Trump's longtime legal counsel
Sean Spicer - WH Press Secretary
2LolaWalser
Rats can swim.
3gilroy
I'm still waiting for either Kellyanne or Steve Bannon to abandon ship. Then we'll know the iceberg has struck...
5jjwilson61
Reince Priebus may be the next to go: http://www.politico.com/story/2017/07/24/priebus-trump-scaramucci-outsiders-2408...
6Arctic-Stranger
This is so much more entertaining than I thought it would be. People are talking impeachment. My take is "Heck no!" If Trump goes, we get Pence, who will probably not step on his own agenda near as much as Trump will. Trump is a millstone on the necks of congress, and the heavier he is, the better, I say.
7btuckertx
It already has a name - Rexit. And while Tillerson hasn't jumped ship quite yet: "Though the former CEO of ExxonMobil Corp. has said that he would stay on as the top U.S. diplomat until the end of the year at least, several anonymous sources told CNN over the weekend that he might leave earlier than that. Sources familiar with Tillerson conversations with friends outside Washington admit the secretary of State may just be venting, but they sense his doubts about President Trump are growing."
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/343448-tillerson-considering-early-ex...
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/343448-tillerson-considering-early-ex...
8m.belljackson
NEW YORK magazine, featuring The Doomsday Earth Catalogue, has a revealing article
on why Bannon has resurfaced and may stay till the death star implodes.
trump care:
1. Kill unicorns.
2. Drink their blood.
on why Bannon has resurfaced and may stay till the death star implodes.
trump care:
1. Kill unicorns.
2. Drink their blood.
102wonderY
Michael Short - assistant press secretary who had been close to Mr. Spicer, resigned just hours after Mr. Scaramucci had been quoted in a news report saying he would be fired.
11proximity1
Compare Obama's record of firings and appointed-staff replacements.
13RickHarsch
>12 m.belljackson: Not enough droned dead Yemeni children for you yet?
142wonderY
Candidate for DHS job withdraws because of transgender ban.
Some people still have standards. Good for you, John Fluharty!
Some people still have standards. Good for you, John Fluharty!
15barney67
You have a short memory. Careers in presidential administrations are relatively brief. Few people last one term.
Calling that "rats jumping ship" is letting one's biases get in the way of facts.
Calling that "rats jumping ship" is letting one's biases get in the way of facts.
16m.belljackson
>13 RickHarsch:
Let the world change so that these children are memorialized
in 2 Inch bold newspaper headlines.
Let the world change so that these children are memorialized
in 2 Inch bold newspaper headlines.
17theoria
>15 barney67: Trump's rats don't last six months.
19btuckertx
Richard Staropoli, the CIO for the Department of Homeland Security appointed by President Donald Trump, has resigned, FedScoop has learned.
Trump appointed Staropoli to the position in April.
https://www.fedscoop.com/dhs-cio-staropoli-resigns-3-months/
Trump appointed Staropoli to the position in April.
https://www.fedscoop.com/dhs-cio-staropoli-resigns-3-months/
21sturlington
>20 2wonderY: The infrastructure council is also disbanded before it is even formed.
His evangelical advisory board still stands by him, though. So basically business leaders have stronger moral convictions than religious leaders in today's America. Huh, not really surprised.
His evangelical advisory board still stands by him, though. So basically business leaders have stronger moral convictions than religious leaders in today's America. Huh, not really surprised.
22southernbooklady
>21 sturlington: So basically business leaders have stronger moral convictions than religious leaders in today's America.
Or, they have to answer to their customer base, not their congregation.
Or, they have to answer to their customer base, not their congregation.
23sturlington
>22 southernbooklady: I'm sure there were many factors affecting their decisions. The important thing is that they took a moral stand and made a statement by disbanding, even though it may hurt their ability to get legislation passed that is important to them. And they didn't wait for public pressure to become overwhelming to do so.
If we look at the results alone, they are significant. Corporate America has strongly repudiated Trump, and he was supposed to be a pro-business president.
That evangelical leaders chose not to take a moral stand at this watershed moment I think says a lot about the degradation of religious institutions in our country.
If we look at the results alone, they are significant. Corporate America has strongly repudiated Trump, and he was supposed to be a pro-business president.
That evangelical leaders chose not to take a moral stand at this watershed moment I think says a lot about the degradation of religious institutions in our country.
24timspalding
That evangelical leaders chose not to take a moral stand at this watershed moment I think says a lot about the degradation of religious institutions in our country.
I'm usually the defender of religion, but I'm going to go with a bolder take. Much of American Evangelicalism has been rotten for a long time. The black churches, progressive Protestants, mainline Protestants, and Catholics were what made Civil Rights happen. But there is a direct line between these guys today and those guys who started "Christian Bible Schools" to avoid having their kids sit next to black kids.
Some good links on this topic I just read:
https://blogs.thegospelcoalition.org/evangelical-history/2016/07/01/a-conversati...
http://www.timothypauljones.com/culture/
I'm usually the defender of religion, but I'm going to go with a bolder take. Much of American Evangelicalism has been rotten for a long time. The black churches, progressive Protestants, mainline Protestants, and Catholics were what made Civil Rights happen. But there is a direct line between these guys today and those guys who started "Christian Bible Schools" to avoid having their kids sit next to black kids.
Some good links on this topic I just read:
https://blogs.thegospelcoalition.org/evangelical-history/2016/07/01/a-conversati...
http://www.timothypauljones.com/culture/
26sturlington
More jumping ship: American Cancer Society and Cleveland Clinic cancel galas at Mar-a-Lago.
30sturlington
>29 southernbooklady: I've seen this news 20+ times in the last 15 minutes, and I break out laughing every single time.
Still are white nationalists in the White House, though.
Still are white nationalists in the White House, though.
31Taphophile13
Economic advisor Carl Icahn:
http://www.rawstory.com/2017/08/i-choose-to-end-this-arrangement-carl-icahn-quit...
http://www.rawstory.com/2017/08/i-choose-to-end-this-arrangement-carl-icahn-quit...
32davidgn
Good riddance of Bannon. But... now what?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_au4KPGpTo4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_au4KPGpTo4
33margd
One mega church pastor resigns from evangelical advisory board:
...UPDATE: 8:50 p.m. (08/18/2017) ― Pastor A. R. Bernard tweeted Friday evening that he had formally resigned from the president’s evangelical advisory board on Tuesday over “a deepening conflict in values” between himself and the administration...
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/trump-evangelical-advisors-charlottesville_us...
______________________________________________
Mostly holdovers from Obama administration, they didn't hold any punches in their joint letter of resignation:
Arts and Humanities Committee members resign in protest of Trump
Aug 19, 2017
In a fiery letter delivered to the White House on Friday, 16 members of the President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities announced their resignations in protest of the Trump administration.
...The White House said President Trump had already decided against renewing the advisory committee for budgetary reasons, the Associated Press reported...
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/arts-and-humanities-committee-members-resign-in-pro...
...UPDATE: 8:50 p.m. (08/18/2017) ― Pastor A. R. Bernard tweeted Friday evening that he had formally resigned from the president’s evangelical advisory board on Tuesday over “a deepening conflict in values” between himself and the administration...
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/trump-evangelical-advisors-charlottesville_us...
______________________________________________
Mostly holdovers from Obama administration, they didn't hold any punches in their joint letter of resignation:
Arts and Humanities Committee members resign in protest of Trump
Aug 19, 2017
In a fiery letter delivered to the White House on Friday, 16 members of the President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities announced their resignations in protest of the Trump administration.
...The White House said President Trump had already decided against renewing the advisory committee for budgetary reasons, the Associated Press reported...
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/arts-and-humanities-committee-members-resign-in-pro...
34sturlington
>33 margd: The White House said President Trump had already decided against renewing the advisory committee for budgetary reasons, the Associated Press reported. Tweet in response from Kal Penn:
Lol @realDonaldTrump you can't break up with us after we broke up with you LMFAO https://t.co/bNy240RNQA
— Kal Penn (@kalpenn) August 18, 2017
35sturlington
More than half of the members of the 15-person Digital Economy Board of Advisors, an expert board set up last year by the Obama administration to help the federal government navigate the digital economy, are known to have resigned this week in the wake of President Donald Trump's controversial comments about the violence last week in Charlottesville, Va.
362wonderY
>31 Taphophile13: This one, especially, leaves with loyalties intact. His goal was to use the government in the same way as Trump. It just got too hot.
37m.belljackson
When will this ship hit an iceberg?
38JGL53
> 37
It has been hit. Trump's apologetics for white supremacists as being the moral equivalents to the counter-protesters was the iceberg.
It is still going to take some length of time for the Trumptanic to turn on its head and sink beneath the waves.
The more optimistic think it might occur within a few weeks. The most time I see anyone giving him is to the end of the calendar year.
It's hard to say. If he were to last four years that would be a miracle that would set atheists back on their heels, not to mention 70 per cent of the general U.S. populace and most of the world.
It has been hit. Trump's apologetics for white supremacists as being the moral equivalents to the counter-protesters was the iceberg.
It is still going to take some length of time for the Trumptanic to turn on its head and sink beneath the waves.
The more optimistic think it might occur within a few weeks. The most time I see anyone giving him is to the end of the calendar year.
It's hard to say. If he were to last four years that would be a miracle that would set atheists back on their heels, not to mention 70 per cent of the general U.S. populace and most of the world.
392wonderY
>31 Taphophile13: Concerning Icahn and also coal magnate, Robert Murray, can someone explain the logic of this news article (at least its headline) please
Trump rejects wealthy friends' pleas for help
It seems to me it wasn't Trump who rejected their requests, it was the agency bureaucracies who determined the changes would not be allowable because of current laws and regulations.
Trump rejects wealthy friends' pleas for help
It seems to me it wasn't Trump who rejected their requests, it was the agency bureaucracies who determined the changes would not be allowable because of current laws and regulations.
40m.belljackson
POTUS, 2017 = Piece Of Terrible Unwelcome S---.
Or...?
Or...?
412wonderY
Infrastructure Advisers Quit, Say Trump’s Actions Threaten Homeland Security
"The National Infrastructure Advisory Council is made up of presidential appointees from the private sector, academia and government, and was originally founded in 2001 under then-President George W. Bush. It advises the president on security, including cybersecurity, for critical infrastructure like water systems. There are now only 20 members listed on the council’s website, down from 27 earlier today."
"The National Infrastructure Advisory Council is made up of presidential appointees from the private sector, academia and government, and was originally founded in 2001 under then-President George W. Bush. It advises the president on security, including cybersecurity, for critical infrastructure like water systems. There are now only 20 members listed on the council’s website, down from 27 earlier today."
42btuckertx
Daniel Kammen, Science envoy to the State Department resignation 08/23/2017: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2017/08/23/trumps-sci...
43btuckertx
Andy Hemming, the WH rapid response director (better know as the guy that put together the 'good news' propaganda folder every morning) is out. Hemming plans on taking a long vacation, and will then explore future opportunities: http://www.politico.com/story/2017/08/24/playbook-andy-hemming-white-house-donal...
442wonderY
Not gone, but considered it:
Gary Cohn, Trump’s Adviser, Said to Have Drafted Resignation Letter After Charlottesville
but
Mr. Cohn added, “As a Jewish American, I will not allow neo-Nazis ranting ‘Jews will not replace us’ to cause this Jew to leave his job.”
Gary Cohn, Trump’s Adviser, Said to Have Drafted Resignation Letter After Charlottesville
but
Mr. Cohn added, “As a Jewish American, I will not allow neo-Nazis ranting ‘Jews will not replace us’ to cause this Jew to leave his job.”
45btuckertx
The nazi sympathizer, Seb Gorka. Out. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-adviser-sebastian-gorka-fired_us_599dc...
47btuckertx
>46 JGL53: Agreed - and I expect that like Bannon, Gorka will slither back to Breitbart, sooner rather than later.
48rastaphrog
High level State Department people heading for the door.
http://www.rawstory.com/2017/08/another-wave-of-top-state-department-officials-q...
http://www.rawstory.com/2017/08/another-wave-of-top-state-department-officials-q...
49Cecrow
Eight advisers to Donald Trump have resigned en masse, claiming that the US President’s actions have “threatened the security of the homeland”.
https://www.globalgovernmentforum.com/trump-advisers-resign-security-concerns/
The resignations follow Trump’s disbanding of two presidential business advisory councils from which some 20 corporate chief executives had stepped down in protest at his failure to clearly denounce white supremacist violence in the Virginia university town.
https://www.globalgovernmentforum.com/trump-advisers-resign-security-concerns/
The resignations follow Trump’s disbanding of two presidential business advisory councils from which some 20 corporate chief executives had stepped down in protest at his failure to clearly denounce white supremacist violence in the Virginia university town.
50btuckertx
William C. Bradford, a tRump appointment to head up the Energy Department's Office of Indian Energy, has resigned... and good riddance. Bradford has spent an enormous amount of time tweeting provocative, inflammatory, and racist remarks, (but will now explore greener pastures while spending more time with his family and his smart phone).
http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/31/politics/kfile-bradford-resigns/index.html
http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/31/politics/kfile-bradford-resigns/index.html
51Taphophile13
Trump's longtime body guard is leaving at the end of the month
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2017/09/02/even_trump_s_longtime_bodyguar...
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2017/09/02/even_trump_s_longtime_bodyguar...
52btuckertx
Andy Surabian, who was Steve Bannon's political adviser in the Trump administration and a campaign veteran, has decided to leave the White House. He will become a senior adviser to "Great America Alliance," the allied group to "Great America PAC" — a major pro-Trump super-PAC, run by Republican operative Ed Rollins, which raised more than $30 million for Trump's election... By installing his top political adviser in such a senior role in the Rollins' outside group, Bannon is tagging the outfit as his financial vehicle to take on Republican leadership in the House and Senate.
• Bannon is expected to support — through Breitbart and the outside group — Danny Tarkanian in Nevada.
• The Mercers have already put $300,000 into a super-PAC supporting Kelli Ward, who is challenging GOP Sen. Jeff Flake in Arizona.
https://www.axios.com/bannons-political-adviser-leaving-white-house-to-join-majo...
• Bannon is expected to support — through Breitbart and the outside group — Danny Tarkanian in Nevada.
• The Mercers have already put $300,000 into a super-PAC supporting Kelli Ward, who is challenging GOP Sen. Jeff Flake in Arizona.
https://www.axios.com/bannons-political-adviser-leaving-white-house-to-join-majo...
532wonderY
Trump aides begin looking for the exits
Staffers are already laying the groundwork through networking, lunches, and résumés sent to D.C.-based executive recruiters, so that they can a land new job by the start of 2018. Two headhunters confirmed that they had heard from multiple White House staffers.
“There is no joy in Trumpworld right now,” said one adviser in frequent contact with several staffers. “Working in the White House is supposed to be the peak of your career, but everyone is unhappy, and everyone is fighting everyone else.”
Staffers are already laying the groundwork through networking, lunches, and résumés sent to D.C.-based executive recruiters, so that they can a land new job by the start of 2018. Two headhunters confirmed that they had heard from multiple White House staffers.
“There is no joy in Trumpworld right now,” said one adviser in frequent contact with several staffers. “Working in the White House is supposed to be the peak of your career, but everyone is unhappy, and everyone is fighting everyone else.”
54barney67
The important thing is that they took a moral stand
an expert board set up last year by the Obama administration to help the federal government navigate the digital economy
originally founded
originally
originally
Trump rejects wealthy friends' pleas for help
Trump’s disbanding of two presidential business advisory councils
an expert board
now only 20 members listed on the council’s website, down from 27
only 20
down from 27
expert
The important thing is that they took a moral stand
In a fiery letter Pastor A. R. Bernard tweeted
white nationalists in the White House
nazi sympathizer
I will not allow neo-Nazis
provocative, inflammatory, and racist remarks
The important thing is that they took a moral stand
announced their resignations in protest
The important thing is that they took a moral stand
American Evangelicalism has been rotten for a long time
provocative, inflammatory, and racist remarks
The important thing is that they took a moral stand
tweeted fiery letter resignations
made a statement by disbanding
made a statement by
made
provocative, inflammatory, and racist
an expert board set up last year by the Obama administration to help the federal government navigate the digital economy
originally founded
originally
originally
Trump rejects wealthy friends' pleas for help
Trump’s disbanding of two presidential business advisory councils
an expert board
now only 20 members listed on the council’s website, down from 27
only 20
down from 27
expert
The important thing is that they took a moral stand
In a fiery letter Pastor A. R. Bernard tweeted
white nationalists in the White House
nazi sympathizer
I will not allow neo-Nazis
provocative, inflammatory, and racist remarks
The important thing is that they took a moral stand
announced their resignations in protest
The important thing is that they took a moral stand
American Evangelicalism has been rotten for a long time
provocative, inflammatory, and racist remarks
The important thing is that they took a moral stand
tweeted fiery letter resignations
made a statement by disbanding
made a statement by
made
provocative, inflammatory, and racist
56artturnerjr
Rachel Maddow ran down how many people have left the Trump administration vs. how many had left the Obama administration in the same amount of time last week:
https://youtu.be/xUoirP3Ys5w
https://youtu.be/xUoirP3Ys5w
57theoria
Much like Putin and other dictators, Trump and his cabinet use the federal budget as their own personal cash register.
58m.belljackson
>57 theoria:
trump is keeping his promise to drain the swamp - of all of our money!
How bankrupt will we be before he has his great fall?
trump is keeping his promise to drain the swamp - of all of our money!
How bankrupt will we be before he has his great fall?
59barney67
Rachel Madcow, the voice of political wisdom. The only reason she's on TV is because she's a lesbian. That doesn't magically bestow wisdom.
60theoria
>59 barney67: wrote: "Rachel Madcow, the voice of political wisdom. The only reason she's on TV is because she's a lesbian."
Such bigotry is unbecoming, barney67.
Such bigotry is unbecoming, barney67.
61m.belljackson
So if I say I'm a lesbian, I can have a TV show?
62RickHarsch
>60 theoria: Way to take off the kid gloves, T.
63margd
Fake news? ("One US official" sounds a little vague.)
Tillerson, Mattis, Mnuchin forge 'suicide pact' in the event Trump wants one of them gone: Report
Melissa Quinn | Oct 4, 2017
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, and Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin reportedly have forged a "suicide pact" in which all three members of President Trump's Cabinet would leave if one of them becomes a target of the president...
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/tillerson-mattis-mnuchin-forge-suicide-pact-in...
_________________________________________________________
...One US official expressed confidence in Tillerson's status due to a so-called "suicide pact" forged between Defense Secretary James Mattis, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, and Tillerson, whereby all three cabinet secretaries vow to leave in the event that the president makes moves against one of them...
https://www.buzzfeed.com/johnhudson/tillerson
Tillerson, Mattis, Mnuchin forge 'suicide pact' in the event Trump wants one of them gone: Report
Melissa Quinn | Oct 4, 2017
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, and Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin reportedly have forged a "suicide pact" in which all three members of President Trump's Cabinet would leave if one of them becomes a target of the president...
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/tillerson-mattis-mnuchin-forge-suicide-pact-in...
_________________________________________________________
...One US official expressed confidence in Tillerson's status due to a so-called "suicide pact" forged between Defense Secretary James Mattis, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, and Tillerson, whereby all three cabinet secretaries vow to leave in the event that the president makes moves against one of them...
https://www.buzzfeed.com/johnhudson/tillerson
64AsYouKnow_Bob 
Rachel Maddow is a Stanford grad, was a Rhodes scholar, and holds an Oxford PhD.
And barney67 is a small-minded, childish bigot.
And barney67 is a small-minded, childish bigot.
66barney67
If one side takes as its position "I care", then anyone who disagrees is going to be seen as uncaring, uncompassionate, intolerant, and then we work our way down to racist, crazy, stupid, fascist, Nazi.
67RickHarsch
As Bob knows...
68AsYouKnow_Bob
Yeah, as >65 barney67: says, my >64 AsYouKnow_Bob: was a violation of the TOS, for which I apologize.
I was intemperate; I'll leave my words standing solely to preserve the record of the conversation, and try again.
>59 barney67: "Rachel Madcow, the voice of political wisdom. The only reason she's on TV is because she's a lesbian."
...is a childish, small-minded and bigoted comment.
Maddow is more qualified for the job than almost ALL of our pundits: to mock her name is puerile and childish; and to declare that she has her job solely because of her sexual orientation is a breathtakingly bigoted observation, the sort of ignorant remark that removes the commenter from serious adult conversation.
Better?
I was intemperate; I'll leave my words standing solely to preserve the record of the conversation, and try again.
>59 barney67: "Rachel Madcow, the voice of political wisdom. The only reason she's on TV is because she's a lesbian."
...is a childish, small-minded and bigoted comment.
Maddow is more qualified for the job than almost ALL of our pundits: to mock her name is puerile and childish; and to declare that she has her job solely because of her sexual orientation is a breathtakingly bigoted observation, the sort of ignorant remark that removes the commenter from serious adult conversation.
Better?
69m.belljackson
>68 AsYouKnow_Bob:
Mild backtracking to a Voice of Balance.
Now, can we get back to why no Democrats insist on major HEADLINES!!!
to document the Republican "Drain the Swamp" of all our hard-earned money...?
Mild backtracking to a Voice of Balance.
Now, can we get back to why no Democrats insist on major HEADLINES!!!
to document the Republican "Drain the Swamp" of all our hard-earned money...?
70RickHarsch
>68 AsYouKnow_Bob: More to the TOS, but not necessarily more accurate.
71barney67
"to declare that she has her job solely because of her sexual orientation is a breathtakingly bigoted observation"
You know for a fact that she didn't? If she did, does that make the truth bigoted? Or is just one more truth you find inconvenient?
You know for a fact that she didn't? If she did, does that make the truth bigoted? Or is just one more truth you find inconvenient?
72barney67
Long list of books, but all some people can do is call names. Doesn't say much for the books or the reader.
74barney67
>73 theoria: What a moronic thing to say. You know what makes bigotry worse? Using the word incorrectly and making quick, arbitrary accusations.
75RickHarsch
>74 barney67: I thought so two, Barn. This rush to judment regarding Rachel Maddow NOT getting her job because she is a Lesbian is quite unseemly. Begin here: did they not FIRE alpha male Keith Olbermann, these same people?
76m.belljackson
I started reading this thread for the insights and intelligent presentation of information.
Never heard of Rachel Maddow since I barely watch television
AND
sure wish I'd never heard of her here.
Since this is trump's america, what's next - that she got the job because she's Jewish...?
Please return to facts related to Jumping Ship.
Never heard of Rachel Maddow since I barely watch television
AND
sure wish I'd never heard of her here.
Since this is trump's america, what's next - that she got the job because she's Jewish...?
Please return to facts related to Jumping Ship.
77btuckertx
>75 RickHarsch: Nicely done - I did snort some of my adult beverage on that one.
78Cecrow
Sometime shortly after the end of Trump's presidency, there are going to be SO MANY inside stories published.
Here's some names to keep an eye on and hope they DON'T jump ship:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/freeland-second-world-war-comments-1.4347693
Here's some names to keep an eye on and hope they DON'T jump ship:
In a blistering interview, Republican lawmaker Bob Corker suggested that people in the White House must constantly babysit Donald Trump to prevent chaos and he expressed fear the erratic U.S. president might cause "World War III."
One well-placed military officer aware of high-level discussions confirmed Corker's account.
He described in an off-the-record chat with The Canadian Press how senior brass work constantly to block the worst ideas from the White House for fear of escalating tensions and provoking war.
He cited three indispensable players and offered a dark prognosis of what should happen if chief of staff John Kelly, Defence Secretary James Mattis, or National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster left government: "Start panicking."
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/freeland-second-world-war-comments-1.4347693
79barney67
fear chat
Start panicking."
constantly fear erratic
constantly fear chaos
"World War III." fear
Start panicking."
fear
of what should happen
babysit
Start panicking."
indispensable players panicking."
indispensable panicking
off-the-record chat
Canadian Press panicking chat
Start panicking."
constantly fear
tensions escalating fear escalating tensions
discussions prevent discussions
ideas indispensable
chat chat chat
prognosis discussions
provoking ideas
dark ideas
blistering interview
blistering chat chat interview
offered
cited
expressed
described
suggested
provoking
fear chat
Act 2, Scene 2, Page 8
Start panicking."
constantly fear erratic
constantly fear chaos
"World War III." fear
Start panicking."
fear
of what should happen
babysit
Start panicking."
indispensable players panicking."
indispensable panicking
off-the-record chat
Canadian Press panicking chat
Start panicking."
constantly fear
tensions escalating fear escalating tensions
discussions prevent discussions
ideas indispensable
chat chat chat
prognosis discussions
provoking ideas
dark ideas
blistering interview
blistering chat chat interview
offered
cited
expressed
described
suggested
provoking
fear chat
Act 2, Scene 2, Page 8
80Cecrow
Climate change expert resigns from US government after blowing whistle
https://www.globalgovernmentforum.com/climate-change-expert-resigns-us-governmen...
https://www.globalgovernmentforum.com/climate-change-expert-resigns-us-governmen...
81RickHarsch
Again, love the dada Barney...let me try my hand
bunghole
brain jolt
provoking paranoids
zip zip zip
sphinctral fears of spectres
spectral spheres of Sphinctres
The Sphinx stinx
plan panic picnic NOWOW
Kowtow to the bowow
dimlit kimship
yowee kimchee
bombalomabimbam
59 59 59 59 59 59 59 59 59 59
why not
the shitpot
TOS toward orderly safety
TOSspot
rimshot
TOS the other side
Turn it over, moron
bunghole
brain jolt
provoking paranoids
zip zip zip
sphinctral fears of spectres
spectral spheres of Sphinctres
The Sphinx stinx
plan panic picnic NOWOW
Kowtow to the bowow
dimlit kimship
yowee kimchee
bombalomabimbam
59 59 59 59 59 59 59 59 59 59
why not
the shitpot
TOS toward orderly safety
TOSspot
rimshot
TOS the other side
Turn it over, moron
832wonderY
Roy Moore is the last straw, you can now call me a Democrat
Kurt Bardella is a former spokesperson for Reps. Brian Bilbray (R-Calif.), Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine), the House Oversight & Government Reform Committee, and Breitbart News.
Kurt Bardella is a former spokesperson for Reps. Brian Bilbray (R-Calif.), Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine), the House Oversight & Government Reform Committee, and Breitbart News.
84btuckertx
Omarosé Onée Manigault-Newman - didn't exactly jump ship, more of a hard shove from a certain senior WH official.
89sturlington
BREAKING: The United States ambassador to Panama has resigned, saying he can no longer serve under the Trump Administration (Reuters)
— Jonathan Savage (@JSavageTweets) January 12, 2018
90m.belljackson
Since, unless one is a moronic creationist,
we ALL descended from Lucy and Others in the "s---hole" country of Africa,
making us all ... what...???
we ALL descended from Lucy and Others in the "s---hole" country of Africa,
making us all ... what...???
91RickHarsch
>90 m.belljackson: Mistakes?
92JGL53
> 90
Most racists I know think the earth was created six thousand years ago, that Adam and Eve were real people who rode dinosaurs to church, and that evolution is a commie pinko gay Satanic conspiracy.
trump has never been the smartest person in the room in his life. Maybe he believes that crap too. I put nothing pass trump now. He is a lying criminal shithole.
Most racists I know think the earth was created six thousand years ago, that Adam and Eve were real people who rode dinosaurs to church, and that evolution is a commie pinko gay Satanic conspiracy.
trump has never been the smartest person in the room in his life. Maybe he believes that crap too. I put nothing pass trump now. He is a lying criminal shithole.
932wonderY
Most of the National Park Service Advisory Board Just Quit in Protest
On Monday night, 9 out of 12 members of the national Park System Advisory Board decided they’d had enough. In a one-page letter to Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, board chairman Tony Knowles, a former Alaska governor, tendered their collective resignations. Their primary gripe: While they are required by law to meet twice per year, Zinke has refused to meet with them or convene a single meeting in the last year.
On Monday night, 9 out of 12 members of the national Park System Advisory Board decided they’d had enough. In a one-page letter to Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, board chairman Tony Knowles, a former Alaska governor, tendered their collective resignations. Their primary gripe: While they are required by law to meet twice per year, Zinke has refused to meet with them or convene a single meeting in the last year.
942wonderY
Pushed. Carl Higbie, what a deplorable!
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/carl-higbie-resigns_us_5a61b65de4b074ce7a07...
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/carl-higbie-resigns_us_5a61b65de4b074ce7a07...
95proximity1
>94 2wonderY:
"Pushed."
So just how does this qualify for the "jumped ship" list?
LOL!
"Any BS in a shit-storm."
"Pushed."
So just how does this qualify for the "jumped ship" list?
LOL!
"Any BS in a shit-storm."
96btuckertx
Fabulous optics on the ethics choices made: Dr. Brenda Fitzgerald, Director of the Center for Disease Control, resigned today after Politico broke the story yesterday that "after taking control of the CDC last July, she purchased holdings in Japan Tobacco, pharmaceutical giants Merck and Bayer, and the health insurance company, Humana, even as her previous holdings were still under review".
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-42889992
ETA: the original Politico piece - https://www.politico.com/story/2018/01/30/cdc-director-tobacco-stocks-after-appo...
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-42889992
ETA: the original Politico piece - https://www.politico.com/story/2018/01/30/cdc-director-tobacco-stocks-after-appo...
97margd
Rachel Brand (Associate AG) leaving DOJ for Walmart (Executive VP, Executive Vice President, Global Governance and Corporate Secretary).
If Rod Rosenstein was fired, she was next in line to supervise the Special Counsel:
...Brand is an expert in national security and helped defend the administration's efforts to renew a foreign surveillance law. But she had a relatively small staff and a portfolio of issues that focused mostly on civil litigation, civil rights and other issues. In recent months, Brand delivered speeches in the administration's fight against human trafficking.
Her office oversees the Antitrust Division, the Civil Division, the Environment and Natural Resources Division, the Tax Division, the Office of Justice Programs, the Community Oriented Policing Services, the Community Relations Service, the Office of Dispute Resolution, the Office of Violence Against Women, the Office of Information and Privacy, the Executive Office for United States Trustees and the Foreign Claims Settlement Commission.
Brand was also a top Justice Department official in the George W. Bush administration, helping pick nominees for federal judgeships. And she previously clerked for Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy...
https://www.npr.org/2018/02/09/584673003/no-3-justice-department-official-rachel...
_____________________________________________________________________
Meanwhile at the White House, two more resignations:
Rob Porter, WH secretary:
...Colbie Holderness, Porter’s first wife,...said the pattern of violence in her marriage to Porter began on their honeymoon in the Canary Islands in 2003 (he kicked her)...“He only punched me once, in the eye”...“Up until then, he had always done it in a way that didn’t leave marks,” Holderness said. “I don’t know if that was conscious or not. He would get angry and throw me down on a soft surface — to his credit, it was always a soft surface like a couch or a bed — and he would lay on top of me shaking me, or rubbing an elbow or a knee into me. He graduated to choking me, not ever hard enough to make me pass out, or frankly to leave marks, but it was frightening and dehumanizing.”
...Porter’s second wife, Jennifer Willoughby,...“The first time he called me a ‘fucking bitch’ was on our honeymoon,” Willoughby wrote. “A month later he physically prevented me from leaving the house. Less than two months after that, I filed a protective order with the police because he punched in the glass on our front door while I was locked inside.”
https://theintercept.com/2018/02/07/rob-porter-wives-abuse-trump-aide/
David Sorensen, WH speech writer:
...Council on Environmental Quality...did not require a security clearance, but his background check was ongoing...his ex-wife alleged that he ran a car over her foot, put out a cigarette on her hand, threw her into a wall and grasped her menacingly by her hair while they were alone on their boat in remote waters off Maine's coast, an incident she said left her fearing for her life...
https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/09/politics/david-sorensen-white-house-resign-domest...
If Rod Rosenstein was fired, she was next in line to supervise the Special Counsel:
...Brand is an expert in national security and helped defend the administration's efforts to renew a foreign surveillance law. But she had a relatively small staff and a portfolio of issues that focused mostly on civil litigation, civil rights and other issues. In recent months, Brand delivered speeches in the administration's fight against human trafficking.
Her office oversees the Antitrust Division, the Civil Division, the Environment and Natural Resources Division, the Tax Division, the Office of Justice Programs, the Community Oriented Policing Services, the Community Relations Service, the Office of Dispute Resolution, the Office of Violence Against Women, the Office of Information and Privacy, the Executive Office for United States Trustees and the Foreign Claims Settlement Commission.
Brand was also a top Justice Department official in the George W. Bush administration, helping pick nominees for federal judgeships. And she previously clerked for Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy...
https://www.npr.org/2018/02/09/584673003/no-3-justice-department-official-rachel...
_____________________________________________________________________
Meanwhile at the White House, two more resignations:
Rob Porter, WH secretary:
...Colbie Holderness, Porter’s first wife,...said the pattern of violence in her marriage to Porter began on their honeymoon in the Canary Islands in 2003 (he kicked her)...“He only punched me once, in the eye”...“Up until then, he had always done it in a way that didn’t leave marks,” Holderness said. “I don’t know if that was conscious or not. He would get angry and throw me down on a soft surface — to his credit, it was always a soft surface like a couch or a bed — and he would lay on top of me shaking me, or rubbing an elbow or a knee into me. He graduated to choking me, not ever hard enough to make me pass out, or frankly to leave marks, but it was frightening and dehumanizing.”
...Porter’s second wife, Jennifer Willoughby,...“The first time he called me a ‘fucking bitch’ was on our honeymoon,” Willoughby wrote. “A month later he physically prevented me from leaving the house. Less than two months after that, I filed a protective order with the police because he punched in the glass on our front door while I was locked inside.”
https://theintercept.com/2018/02/07/rob-porter-wives-abuse-trump-aide/
David Sorensen, WH speech writer:
...Council on Environmental Quality...did not require a security clearance, but his background check was ongoing...his ex-wife alleged that he ran a car over her foot, put out a cigarette on her hand, threw her into a wall and grasped her menacingly by her hair while they were alone on their boat in remote waters off Maine's coast, an incident she said left her fearing for her life...
https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/09/politics/david-sorensen-white-house-resign-domest...
98margd
...More than one in three Trump administration staffers have left the White House in its first year, a pace that far eclipses the rate of departures in the previous five White Houses, according to a study done by Kathryn Dunn Tenpas of the Brookings Institute.
The pace of resignations, firings and other assorted departures from the Trump White House is twice what it was in George W. Bush's first year as president and triple that of Barack Obama's first year in office...
https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/13/politics/staff-turnover-white-house/index.html
The pace of resignations, firings and other assorted departures from the Trump White House is twice what it was in George W. Bush's first year as president and triple that of Barack Obama's first year in office...
https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/13/politics/staff-turnover-white-house/index.html
101proximity1
>100 sturlington:
Means?
"Alas, Poor Gary--I knew him, Horatio! a fellow
of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy: he hath
borne me on his back a thousand times; and now, how
abhorred in my imagination it is! my gorge rims at
it. Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know
not how oft. Where be your gibes now? your
gambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment,
that were wont to set the table on a roar?"
???
Is it "Good grief! We've lost Gary Cohn!" ?
Or "Good riddance!, Gary Cohn!" ?
102rastaphrog
Rex Tillerson's out as Sec of State
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/03/rex-tillerson-ousted-secretary-state-clashing-t...
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/03/rex-tillerson-ousted-secretary-state-clashing-t...
103margd
Hmm, Russia said to have nixed appointment of Romney as Secretary of State. It had given the fellow appointed instead (Rex Tillerson) an award.
But, upon Tillerson's comment on Russia's alleged poisoning in Britain
(https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/tillerson-says-u-k-spy-poisoning-clearly-came-russia-n856056),
Trump finally and quickly fired him
(https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-ousts-tillerson-will-replace-him-as-secretary-of-state-with-cia-chief-pompeo/2018/03/13/30f34eea-26ba-11e8-b79d-f3d931db7f68_story.html)
"NO COLLUSION" Trump tweeted (caps his). HAH!
But, upon Tillerson's comment on Russia's alleged poisoning in Britain
(https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/tillerson-says-u-k-spy-poisoning-clearly-came-russia-n856056),
Trump finally and quickly fired him
(https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-ousts-tillerson-will-replace-him-as-secretary-of-state-with-cia-chief-pompeo/2018/03/13/30f34eea-26ba-11e8-b79d-f3d931db7f68_story.html)
"NO COLLUSION" Trump tweeted (caps his). HAH!
104theoria
Putin’s finger puppet in the Oval Office strikes again just after a Republican Congressstooge declared the Russia collusion case closed.
1052wonderY
Pushed.
Longtime Trump aide fired over financial crime investigation
President Donald Trump's longtime personal aide John McEntee was fired because he is currently under investigation by the Department of Homeland Security for serious financial crimes.
Minutes after, the Trump campaign announced McEntee would be joining the reelection effort as a senior adviser for campaign operations.
Longtime Trump aide fired over financial crime investigation
President Donald Trump's longtime personal aide John McEntee was fired because he is currently under investigation by the Department of Homeland Security for serious financial crimes.
Minutes after, the Trump campaign announced McEntee would be joining the reelection effort as a senior adviser for campaign operations.
106morningwalker
Will someone please remind trump he is no longer on the Apprentice and he can't fire EVERYONE? Or can he???
1072wonderY
https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/13/politics/goldstein-tillerson-fired/index.html
Steve Goldstein, aide to Tillerson, is fired; leaving only one of six permanent undersecretaries in place.
Trump can do it “all by myself.”
Steve Goldstein, aide to Tillerson, is fired; leaving only one of six permanent undersecretaries in place.
Trump can do it “all by myself.”
108margd
Unlike political appointees, career employees are supposed to be protected from political witch-hunts. Career employees can only be dismissed for 'folly of their own making', but the likes of Newt Gingrich and Dick Cheney could make jobs so miserable, they'd just leave. The nation loses important expertise like that of the woman who worked on Iran issues. A stain on Rex Tillerson's tenure if he allowed such harassment:
Dems accuse Trump officials of seeking State Department purge
Max Greenwood | 03/15/18
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/378636-dems-accuse-trump-officials-of...
Dems on House Oversight Committee letter to White House:
https://democrats-oversight.house.gov/sites/democrats.oversight.house.gov/files/...
Dems accuse Trump officials of seeking State Department purge
Max Greenwood | 03/15/18
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/378636-dems-accuse-trump-officials-of...
Dems on House Oversight Committee letter to White House:
https://democrats-oversight.house.gov/sites/democrats.oversight.house.gov/files/...
109rolandperkins
We were discussing the possible effect of the transition on the C I A this morning, and it was mentioned that nominee Gina Haspel might not
be confirmed by the Senate. Her appointment as
deputy director was without the necessity of
senate confirmation.
be confirmed by the Senate. Her appointment as
deputy director was without the necessity of
senate confirmation.
110JGL53
Apologists for trump, anywhere they pop up now, are no longer amusing. They are just sad clowns who are too lame to even suspect how ridiculous they appear to normals.
111margd
Why would ANYONE want to work for this White House??
Kelly recounts that Tillerson was on the toilet, suffering from stomach bug on his African trip, when Kelly informed him that he would be fired.
Kelly makes much of Kudlow's drug problem, though freely admitted and he's been clean 23 years.
Trump said to be behind rumors sparking job-anxiety in his White House.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/john-kelly-rex-tillerson-was-on-the-toilet-when-i-...
Career employees at State and perhaps McCabe at FBI are hounded for political reasons.
https://democrats-oversight.house.gov/sites/democrats.oversight.house.gov/files/...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/fbis-andrew-mccabe-is-fir...
https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/16/politics/andrew-mccabe-fired/index.html
Trump begins on McMaster as he did Sessions and Tillerman.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-decides-to-remove-national-securit...
I hope Trump learns of his own indictment and impeachment via twitter.
(He sure has a way of gaining sympathy for some otherwise UNsympathetic characters!)
Kelly recounts that Tillerson was on the toilet, suffering from stomach bug on his African trip, when Kelly informed him that he would be fired.
Kelly makes much of Kudlow's drug problem, though freely admitted and he's been clean 23 years.
Trump said to be behind rumors sparking job-anxiety in his White House.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/john-kelly-rex-tillerson-was-on-the-toilet-when-i-...
Career employees at State and perhaps McCabe at FBI are hounded for political reasons.
https://democrats-oversight.house.gov/sites/democrats.oversight.house.gov/files/...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/fbis-andrew-mccabe-is-fir...
https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/16/politics/andrew-mccabe-fired/index.html
Trump begins on McMaster as he did Sessions and Tillerman.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-decides-to-remove-national-securit...
I hope Trump learns of his own indictment and impeachment via twitter.
(He sure has a way of gaining sympathy for some otherwise UNsympathetic characters!)
1122wonderY
John Dowd is the president’s second personal lawyer to leave the job and it’s the second major change to his legal team this week.
Not leaving the White House, of course, but departing the Trump ship.
Not leaving the White House, of course, but departing the Trump ship.
113sturlington
H.R. McMaster is out as national security adviser, will be replaced by former U.N. ambassador John Bolton, Trump says in a tweet.
1142wonderY
The VA's David Shulkin is out, by tweet.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/28/us/politics/david-shulkin-veterans-affairs-tr...
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/28/us/politics/david-shulkin-veterans-affairs-tr...
115Cecrow
>63 margd:, with Tillerson gone, this rumour was apparently unfounded.
But as per >78 Cecrow: and now >111 margd: and >113 sturlington:, is it time to panic?
But as per >78 Cecrow: and now >111 margd: and >113 sturlington:, is it time to panic?
1172wonderY
National Security Council spokesperson, Michael Anton.
http://time.com/5232697/michael-anton-quits-national-security-council/
Said to be one of the few eggheads who didn't drive Trump crazy with too many facts.
http://time.com/5232697/michael-anton-quits-national-security-council/
Said to be one of the few eggheads who didn't drive Trump crazy with too many facts.
1182wonderY
Tom Bossert
Trump's homeland security adviser unexpectedly resigning
Appears to be at the instigation of John Bolton:
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/04/john-bolton-forces-homeland-securit...
Trump's homeland security adviser unexpectedly resigning
Appears to be at the instigation of John Bolton:
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/04/john-bolton-forces-homeland-securit...
1192wonderY
Can we count House Speaker Paul Ryan as a Trump ship jumper?
Speaker Paul Ryan Will Not Seek Re-election in November
I was looking forward to his Congressional fight this fall. Colorful characters in that district. The IronStache, Randy Bryce and the anti-Semite, Paul Nehlen.
Speaker Paul Ryan Will Not Seek Re-election in November
I was looking forward to his Congressional fight this fall. Colorful characters in that district. The IronStache, Randy Bryce and the anti-Semite, Paul Nehlen.
120sturlington
>119 2wonderY: I think it counts: “Friends say that after Ryan passed tax reform, his longtime dream, he was ready to step out of a job that has become endlessly frustrating, in part because of President Trump.” source
And good riddance to that spineless wonder.
And good riddance to that spineless wonder.
121barney67
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I know that the purpose of this thread, of all these threads in large marge's blog, is to make Trump look bad, but they are doing just the opposite.
Every post in this thread pats him on the back. This thread is proof that he is draining the swamp. Good for him. The only person who could have done that is an outsider. Who have the Democrats or anyone else run who can claim to be an outsider? No one. You can bet that if Mrs Clinton had won, nothing would have changed. Would you have wanted that? This is the most anti-establishment candidate America has ever had. That's a great irony for progressives, who claim to be in favor of change. Actually it's their change they are in favor of. Their tolerance, their compassion, their causes, their club. Outsiders need not apply.
Large marge won't confront these obvious points because she is afraid to debate me and everyone else. If you keep your head in the sand, life remains OK, right? This is her blog and she must be obeyed. But then she's a Canadian, so she has no clue about what's happening here.
Every post in this thread pats him on the back. This thread is proof that he is draining the swamp. Good for him. The only person who could have done that is an outsider. Who have the Democrats or anyone else run who can claim to be an outsider? No one. You can bet that if Mrs Clinton had won, nothing would have changed. Would you have wanted that? This is the most anti-establishment candidate America has ever had. That's a great irony for progressives, who claim to be in favor of change. Actually it's their change they are in favor of. Their tolerance, their compassion, their causes, their club. Outsiders need not apply.
Large marge won't confront these obvious points because she is afraid to debate me and everyone else. If you keep your head in the sand, life remains OK, right? This is her blog and she must be obeyed. But then she's a Canadian, so she has no clue about what's happening here.
1222wonderY
>121 barney67: You need to stop using that nickname obviously meant to be insulting. I hope all other members agree with me and continue to flag any posts where you do so.
1242wonderY
Top cyber official to leave White House
Rob Joyce is not exactly jumping ship, as he is returning to the NSA; but he does leave a hole that needs to be filled at the White House.
Rob Joyce is not exactly jumping ship, as he is returning to the NSA; but he does leave a hole that needs to be filled at the White House.
1252wonderY
Trump’s Immigration And Customs Enforcement Chief To Retire
Tom Homan was preparing to retire January 2017 when asked by Trump to lead ICE. His Senate confirmations has stalled, apparently because the White House has not provided the documentation needed.
Homan had also recently complained to co-workers that he’d been increasingly marginalized by DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, who left him out of negotiations with lawmakers on immigration reform earlier this year, according to The Washington Post.
Tom Homan was preparing to retire January 2017 when asked by Trump to lead ICE. His Senate confirmations has stalled, apparently because the White House has not provided the documentation needed.
Homan had also recently complained to co-workers that he’d been increasingly marginalized by DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, who left him out of negotiations with lawmakers on immigration reform earlier this year, according to The Washington Post.
126margd
Pruitt's security, Superfund chief leave as probe heats up
ALEX GUILLÉN and ANTHONY ADRAGNA | 05/01/2018
...The departures of Pasquale “Nino” Perrotta, a career EPA employee who headed Pruitt's security team, and Albert “Kell” Kelly, a former banker and longtime friend who ran the agency's Superfund task force, come days after Pruitt dismayed much of his staff by blaming aides for furors involving his massive spending on bodyguards, first-class flights, a $43,000 soundproof phone booth and a biometric door lock.
...Kelly is leaving the agency after attracting controversy over his past, including being banned for life from the banking industry by the FDIC.
...Multiple sources told POLITICO last month that Perrotta has been a driving force behind the rapidly increased security spending for Pruitt...
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/05/01/scott-pruitt-security-superfund-chief-...
ALEX GUILLÉN and ANTHONY ADRAGNA | 05/01/2018
...The departures of Pasquale “Nino” Perrotta, a career EPA employee who headed Pruitt's security team, and Albert “Kell” Kelly, a former banker and longtime friend who ran the agency's Superfund task force, come days after Pruitt dismayed much of his staff by blaming aides for furors involving his massive spending on bodyguards, first-class flights, a $43,000 soundproof phone booth and a biometric door lock.
...Kelly is leaving the agency after attracting controversy over his past, including being banned for life from the banking industry by the FDIC.
...Multiple sources told POLITICO last month that Perrotta has been a driving force behind the rapidly increased security spending for Pruitt...
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/05/01/scott-pruitt-security-superfund-chief-...
1272wonderY
Ty Cobb is leaving
The Times, citing two people briefed on the matter, said attorney Emmet Flood would replace Cobb
The Times, citing two people briefed on the matter, said attorney Emmet Flood would replace Cobb
128rolandperkins
Can anyone tell me who is the current Secretary of Defense, and who did he/she replace? Iʻve started to lose track of the "jumpiings" and firings.
129margd
So, Trump currently has no legal representation with security clearance that can review/advise him on classified stuff at this critical time?
(Two new hires were once federal prosecutors, so presumably should be quickly cleared, assuming no bad behavior in interim.)
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/385795-trumps-legal-team-lacks-securi...
ETA: Emmet Flood was Bill Clinton's impeachment lawyer, represented GW Bush on executive privilege, etc.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-cobb-flood-mueller_us_5ae9e922e4b022f...
(Two new hires were once federal prosecutors, so presumably should be quickly cleared, assuming no bad behavior in interim.)
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/385795-trumps-legal-team-lacks-securi...
ETA: Emmet Flood was Bill Clinton's impeachment lawyer, represented GW Bush on executive privilege, etc.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-cobb-flood-mueller_us_5ae9e922e4b022f...
130pmackey
>128 rolandperkins: Secretary of Defense is James Mattis, a retired Marine Corps General.
132pmackey
Mattis has a great deal of respect from the military. He definitely tells it like it is. I'd be interested in his running for President in 2020 but I'm afraid he wouldn't want to.
1332wonderY
Mark Inch
Director of federal prisons resigns after clashes with Kushner, Sessions
Sessions hired Inch last August, praising the retired Army major general’s qualifications for the role.
However, Inch allegedly struggled to navigate his position as Kushner and Sessions each pushed for their preferred reforms to the prison system.
Inch was reportedly left out of budget decisions and was in the dark on discussions about the prison reform bill that passed the House this week.
In addition, Inch was reportedly rebuffed by Sessions when he attempted to hire his preferred personnel for his team.
Director of federal prisons resigns after clashes with Kushner, Sessions
Sessions hired Inch last August, praising the retired Army major general’s qualifications for the role.
However, Inch allegedly struggled to navigate his position as Kushner and Sessions each pushed for their preferred reforms to the prison system.
Inch was reportedly left out of budget decisions and was in the dark on discussions about the prison reform bill that passed the House this week.
In addition, Inch was reportedly rebuffed by Sessions when he attempted to hire his preferred personnel for his team.
1342wonderY
Marc Short, legislative affairs director:
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/06/15/marc-short-resigning-649112
Also Shahira Knight, deputy director of the National Economic Council.
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/06/15/marc-short-resigning-649112
Also Shahira Knight, deputy director of the National Economic Council.
1352wonderY
Rumors unconfirmed by Sarah Huck-Sanders and Raj Shah:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/sarah-sanders-raj-shah-planning-to-depart-the-white...
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/sarah-sanders-raj-shah-planning-to-depart-the-white...
1362wonderY
Joe Hagin, deputy chief of staff for operations, led the planning for the Singapore summit:
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/393104-top-trump-aide-to-leave-white-...
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/393104-top-trump-aide-to-leave-white-...
137sturlington
The man who brought us Sarah Palin is leaving the Republican Party: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/today-i-renounce-my-membership-longtime-...
1382wonderY
Everett Eissenstat, senior White House trade official, will leave his post at the White House next month.
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/morning-trade/2018/06/27/senior-white-house...
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/morning-trade/2018/06/27/senior-white-house...
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Trump Consults on Successors for Chief of Staff John Kelly
Rebecca Ballhaus and Peter Nicholas | June 28, 2018
WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump is consulting with advisers about whom he should tap as his next chief of staff, with John Kelly expected to depart the administration as early as this summer (July 31?), possibly even this week, according to people familiar with the matter.
The two front-runners for the job, the people said, are Nick Ayers, who serves as chief of staff to Vice President Mike Pence, and Mick Mulvaney, who heads the Office of Management and Budget as well as serving as acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
Plans for Mr. Kelly’s exit aren’t yet final...
https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-consults-advisers-about-possible-replacement-...
Rebecca Ballhaus and Peter Nicholas | June 28, 2018
WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump is consulting with advisers about whom he should tap as his next chief of staff, with John Kelly expected to depart the administration as early as this summer (July 31?), possibly even this week, according to people familiar with the matter.
The two front-runners for the job, the people said, are Nick Ayers, who serves as chief of staff to Vice President Mike Pence, and Mick Mulvaney, who heads the Office of Management and Budget as well as serving as acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
Plans for Mr. Kelly’s exit aren’t yet final...
https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-consults-advisers-about-possible-replacement-...
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U.S. Ambassador to Estonia Resigns in Disgust After Trump Anti-Europe Rants
Robbie Gramer | June 29, 2018
James Melville is the latest in a string of career diplomat resignations over Trump’s comments and policies.
...The resignation comes ahead of a pivotal NATO summit, where the United States’ closest historic allies fear that Trump will lambast them and further isolate Washington from its allies after heated disputes over trade, defense spending issues, and the U.S. exit from the Iran nuclear deal. Allies fear that the optics of Trump trashing allies in Brussels, followed by a meeting in Finland with Russian President Vladimir Putin, will undercut an already anemic trans-Atlantic partnership.
...Melville is one of many senior U.S. diplomats who have resigned — some quietly, some not — because of Trump’s policies. In December 2017, for example, the U.S. ambassador to Panama, John Feeley, resigned and several months later wrote an op-ed for the Washington Post slamming the president and his foreign-policy stances. Elizabeth Shackelford, a rising star in the diplomatic corps in Africa, quit with a scathing resignation letter, also obtained by FP, deriding Trump and former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson for what she saw as their disdain of U.S. diplomacy...
https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/06/29/u-s-ambassador-to-estonia-resigns-in-disgus...
Robbie Gramer | June 29, 2018
James Melville is the latest in a string of career diplomat resignations over Trump’s comments and policies.
...The resignation comes ahead of a pivotal NATO summit, where the United States’ closest historic allies fear that Trump will lambast them and further isolate Washington from its allies after heated disputes over trade, defense spending issues, and the U.S. exit from the Iran nuclear deal. Allies fear that the optics of Trump trashing allies in Brussels, followed by a meeting in Finland with Russian President Vladimir Putin, will undercut an already anemic trans-Atlantic partnership.
...Melville is one of many senior U.S. diplomats who have resigned — some quietly, some not — because of Trump’s policies. In December 2017, for example, the U.S. ambassador to Panama, John Feeley, resigned and several months later wrote an op-ed for the Washington Post slamming the president and his foreign-policy stances. Elizabeth Shackelford, a rising star in the diplomatic corps in Africa, quit with a scathing resignation letter, also obtained by FP, deriding Trump and former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson for what she saw as their disdain of U.S. diplomacy...
https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/06/29/u-s-ambassador-to-estonia-resigns-in-disgus...
1412wonderY
Not in the administration, but Republican GOP leader in SE Ohio, Chris Gagin, quits in protest of the Helsinki summit
142margd
Then there are the career civil servants, below most radar but so important...
Yellowstone National Park Superintendent: 'I'm No Longer Wanted'
Nate Hegyi | June 7, 2018
The superintendent of Yellowstone National Park says he's being forced out of his job. Daniel Wenk was informed on Tuesday that the National Park Service will replace him this August.
...Wenk recently announced he would retire from running the park in March 2019 instead of accepting a new assignment in Washington, D.C. But then this week, he said National Park Service Acting Director P. Daniel Smith gave him an ultimatum: take the new position in D.C. or retire early.
...According to a recent report from the Interior Department's Office of Inspector General, some senior leaders within the Park Service feel they are being reshuffled for political or punitive reasons. Wenk says the move by the Park Service to replace him, "feels very punitive."
...Steve Iobst...former deputy superintendent of Yellowstone National Park and served under Wenk for years...speculates his former boss is being pushed out due to politics. Wenk was committed to protecting and preserving the park. He was open to controlling visitation and Iobst claims that ruffled feathers among some nearby businesses who make their money off the millions of people who visit Yellowstone each year.
Iobst said Wenk was also planning to move some Yellowstone bison to northeastern Montana at the request of the Fort Peck Indian Reservation there.
"I'm not sure if that rubs the current administration the wrong way, but certainly the transport of bison to reservations in Montana is not very well thought of by the ranching interests in the state of Montana," he said.
Ranchers are concerned the bison could spread a disease called brucellosis to their cattle. There's never been a documented case of that happening in the wild, but it's a real fear in the ranching community and Iobst said those ranching interests have the ear of Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke.
...Wenk said he doesn't know if he'll take the (DC) job or retire early, as this late in his career, it doesn't make sense to relocate to D.C. for the last few months of his service.
He said he will be replaced at Yellowstone by Cameron Sholly, who is currently the head of the National Park Service's Omaha office.
https://www.npr.org/2018/06/07/617936487/yellowstone-national-park-superintenden...
Yellowstone National Park Superintendent: 'I'm No Longer Wanted'
Nate Hegyi | June 7, 2018
The superintendent of Yellowstone National Park says he's being forced out of his job. Daniel Wenk was informed on Tuesday that the National Park Service will replace him this August.
...Wenk recently announced he would retire from running the park in March 2019 instead of accepting a new assignment in Washington, D.C. But then this week, he said National Park Service Acting Director P. Daniel Smith gave him an ultimatum: take the new position in D.C. or retire early.
...According to a recent report from the Interior Department's Office of Inspector General, some senior leaders within the Park Service feel they are being reshuffled for political or punitive reasons. Wenk says the move by the Park Service to replace him, "feels very punitive."
...Steve Iobst...former deputy superintendent of Yellowstone National Park and served under Wenk for years...speculates his former boss is being pushed out due to politics. Wenk was committed to protecting and preserving the park. He was open to controlling visitation and Iobst claims that ruffled feathers among some nearby businesses who make their money off the millions of people who visit Yellowstone each year.
Iobst said Wenk was also planning to move some Yellowstone bison to northeastern Montana at the request of the Fort Peck Indian Reservation there.
"I'm not sure if that rubs the current administration the wrong way, but certainly the transport of bison to reservations in Montana is not very well thought of by the ranching interests in the state of Montana," he said.
Ranchers are concerned the bison could spread a disease called brucellosis to their cattle. There's never been a documented case of that happening in the wild, but it's a real fear in the ranching community and Iobst said those ranching interests have the ear of Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke.
...Wenk said he doesn't know if he'll take the (DC) job or retire early, as this late in his career, it doesn't make sense to relocate to D.C. for the last few months of his service.
He said he will be replaced at Yellowstone by Cameron Sholly, who is currently the head of the National Park Service's Omaha office.
https://www.npr.org/2018/06/07/617936487/yellowstone-national-park-superintenden...
143margd
Sessions and Rosenstein should stay as long as their presence protects Special Counsel's integrity.
Pros and cons below is mostly directed at foreign policy types (Coats), but applicable to the rest?
If you work for Trump, quit now
Ruth Marcus | July 16, 2018
Save your souls...honor...reputation
...as a general matter, it is better to have more grown-ups around Trump, mitigating his worst impulses, providing wisdom born of experience to counter his ignorance and petulance.
But that assessment assumes facts not in evidence: that Trump is educable or containable. Actually, it contravenes the available evidence. There is none that Trump has done anything but what Trump wants to do.
...God save us. Certainly, Congress won’t...Perhaps mass resignations of administration officials would rouse a supine Congress.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/quit-now-trump-staffers-save-your-souls/...
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Please, Dan Coats. Don’t resign.
Fred Hiatt | July 17, 2018
...Things could get worse still. A lot worse. And that argues for the “adults” staying as long as they can manage to do so.
...It is hugely valuable to the nation to hear a truthful assessment from someone in (Coat's) position, when truth at the top is in such short supply.
...every official has to decide for himself or herself what is the breaking point — bowing to dictators, endorsing racist violence in Charlottesville, tearing children from their parents at the border...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/please-dan-coats-for-the-good-of-the-cou...
ETA____________________________________________________
Another reason to stay--as with Sessions and Rosenstein--and Interior, EPA, Agriculture, etc.-- is to protect the integrity of the agency beneath one. To ensure that a body of expertise remains and that civil-service-protected positions (and judiciary) are not filled with the incompetent and the compromised.
But, if you can't speak truth to power and to Americans, and/or you can't protect integrity of your agency, might as well make as big a statement as is left to you by resigning?
Pros and cons below is mostly directed at foreign policy types (Coats), but applicable to the rest?
If you work for Trump, quit now
Ruth Marcus | July 16, 2018
Save your souls...honor...reputation
...as a general matter, it is better to have more grown-ups around Trump, mitigating his worst impulses, providing wisdom born of experience to counter his ignorance and petulance.
But that assessment assumes facts not in evidence: that Trump is educable or containable. Actually, it contravenes the available evidence. There is none that Trump has done anything but what Trump wants to do.
...God save us. Certainly, Congress won’t...Perhaps mass resignations of administration officials would rouse a supine Congress.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/quit-now-trump-staffers-save-your-souls/...
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Please, Dan Coats. Don’t resign.
Fred Hiatt | July 17, 2018
...Things could get worse still. A lot worse. And that argues for the “adults” staying as long as they can manage to do so.
...It is hugely valuable to the nation to hear a truthful assessment from someone in (Coat's) position, when truth at the top is in such short supply.
...every official has to decide for himself or herself what is the breaking point — bowing to dictators, endorsing racist violence in Charlottesville, tearing children from their parents at the border...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/please-dan-coats-for-the-good-of-the-cou...
ETA____________________________________________________
Another reason to stay--as with Sessions and Rosenstein--and Interior, EPA, Agriculture, etc.-- is to protect the integrity of the agency beneath one. To ensure that a body of expertise remains and that civil-service-protected positions (and judiciary) are not filled with the incompetent and the compromised.
But, if you can't speak truth to power and to Americans, and/or you can't protect integrity of your agency, might as well make as big a statement as is left to you by resigning?
1452wonderY
Oregon Republican commissioner, Lori Stegmann, switches to the Democratic Party.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2018/07/26/oregon-republ...
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2018/07/26/oregon-republ...
146margd
>102 rastaphrog: contd. Tillerson.
Saudi Arabia Planned to Invade Qatar Last Summer. Rex Tillerson’s Efforts to Stop It May Have Cost Him His Job.
Alex Emmons | August 1 2018
...a previously unreported episode that stoked the UAE and Saudi Arabia’s anger at Tillerson and that may have played a key role in his removal. In the summer of 2017, several months before the Gulf allies started pushing for his ouster, Tillerson intervened to stop a secret Saudi-led, UAE-backed plan to invade and essentially conquer Qatar...
In the days and weeks after Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Egypt, and Bahrain cut diplomatic ties with Qatar and closed down their land, sea, and air borders with the country, Tillerson made a series of phone calls urging Saudi officials not to take military action against the country. ...
In the calls, Tillerson, who dealt extensively with the Qatari government as the CEO of Exxon Mobil, urged Saudi King Salman, then-Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, and Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir not to attack Qatar or otherwise escalate hostilities...Tillerson also encouraged Defense Secretary Jim Mattis to call his counterparts in Saudi Arabia to explain the dangers of such an invasion. Al Udeid Air Base near Doha, Qatar’s capital city, is the forward headquarters of U.S. Central Command and home to some 10,000 American troops.
Pressure from Tillerson caused Mohammed bin Salman, the de facto ruler of the country, to back down, concerned that the invasion would damage Saudi Arabia’s long-term relationship with the U.S. But Tillerson’s intervention enraged Mohammed bin Zayed, the crown prince of Abu Dhabi and effective ruler of that country...
...interventionist tendencies on the part of two of the U.S.’s closest allies and largest weapons clients. In recent years, both countries have demonstrated a willingness to use military force to reshape politics in the Gulf, intervening in Bahrain to suppress an Arab Spring uprising in 2011 and waging a three-year, U.S.-backed war that has devastated Yemen.
...Trump told reporters that “the nation of Qatar, unfortunately, has historically been a funder of terrorism at a very high level.”
...Tillerson...aides suspected that the line in Trump’s prepared Rose Garden remarks had been written by UAE Ambassador Yousef Al Otaiba, a powerful D.C. player who maintained “almost constant phone and email contact” with Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner.
...Some Gulf watchers speculate that the incentive for the planned invasion may have been partly financial. Since the current king came to power in 2015, the country has spent more than a third of its $737 billion in reserves, and last year, the Saudi economy entered a painful recession.
...If the Saudis had succeeded in seizing Doha, they would potentially have been able to gain access to the country’s $320 billion sovereign wealth fund. In November of last year, months after the plan collapsed, the Saudi crown prince rounded up and detained dozens of his relatives in the Ritz-Carlton Riyadh, forcing them to sign over billions in privately held assets.
...Beginning in the fall of 2017, the crown princes in Riyadh and Abu Dhabi began lobbying the White House for Tillerson’s removal,
...ongoing campaign by the UAE to try to provoke Qatar into escalating the crisis. Qatar has continued to complain about violations of its airspace by UAE aircraft, detailing its accusations in a letter to the U.N. earlier this year.
The UAE’s harassment of Qatar also includes crude public insults lodged by UAE leadership against the Qatari royal family...
https://theintercept.com/2018/08/01/rex-tillerson-qatar-saudi-uae/
Saudi Arabia Planned to Invade Qatar Last Summer. Rex Tillerson’s Efforts to Stop It May Have Cost Him His Job.
Alex Emmons | August 1 2018
...a previously unreported episode that stoked the UAE and Saudi Arabia’s anger at Tillerson and that may have played a key role in his removal. In the summer of 2017, several months before the Gulf allies started pushing for his ouster, Tillerson intervened to stop a secret Saudi-led, UAE-backed plan to invade and essentially conquer Qatar...
In the days and weeks after Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Egypt, and Bahrain cut diplomatic ties with Qatar and closed down their land, sea, and air borders with the country, Tillerson made a series of phone calls urging Saudi officials not to take military action against the country. ...
In the calls, Tillerson, who dealt extensively with the Qatari government as the CEO of Exxon Mobil, urged Saudi King Salman, then-Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, and Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir not to attack Qatar or otherwise escalate hostilities...Tillerson also encouraged Defense Secretary Jim Mattis to call his counterparts in Saudi Arabia to explain the dangers of such an invasion. Al Udeid Air Base near Doha, Qatar’s capital city, is the forward headquarters of U.S. Central Command and home to some 10,000 American troops.
Pressure from Tillerson caused Mohammed bin Salman, the de facto ruler of the country, to back down, concerned that the invasion would damage Saudi Arabia’s long-term relationship with the U.S. But Tillerson’s intervention enraged Mohammed bin Zayed, the crown prince of Abu Dhabi and effective ruler of that country...
...interventionist tendencies on the part of two of the U.S.’s closest allies and largest weapons clients. In recent years, both countries have demonstrated a willingness to use military force to reshape politics in the Gulf, intervening in Bahrain to suppress an Arab Spring uprising in 2011 and waging a three-year, U.S.-backed war that has devastated Yemen.
...Trump told reporters that “the nation of Qatar, unfortunately, has historically been a funder of terrorism at a very high level.”
...Tillerson...aides suspected that the line in Trump’s prepared Rose Garden remarks had been written by UAE Ambassador Yousef Al Otaiba, a powerful D.C. player who maintained “almost constant phone and email contact” with Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner.
...Some Gulf watchers speculate that the incentive for the planned invasion may have been partly financial. Since the current king came to power in 2015, the country has spent more than a third of its $737 billion in reserves, and last year, the Saudi economy entered a painful recession.
...If the Saudis had succeeded in seizing Doha, they would potentially have been able to gain access to the country’s $320 billion sovereign wealth fund. In November of last year, months after the plan collapsed, the Saudi crown prince rounded up and detained dozens of his relatives in the Ritz-Carlton Riyadh, forcing them to sign over billions in privately held assets.
...Beginning in the fall of 2017, the crown princes in Riyadh and Abu Dhabi began lobbying the White House for Tillerson’s removal,
...ongoing campaign by the UAE to try to provoke Qatar into escalating the crisis. Qatar has continued to complain about violations of its airspace by UAE aircraft, detailing its accusations in a letter to the U.N. earlier this year.
The UAE’s harassment of Qatar also includes crude public insults lodged by UAE leadership against the Qatari royal family...
https://theintercept.com/2018/08/01/rex-tillerson-qatar-saudi-uae/
147margd
Think I'll buy a copy of that "dog"s book... (Omarosa)
When you give a crazed, crying lowlife a break, and give her a job at the White House, I guess it just didn’t work out. Good work by General Kelly for quickly firing that dog!
Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump
4:31 AM - 14 Aug 2018
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1029329583672307712
When you give a crazed, crying lowlife a break, and give her a job at the White House, I guess it just didn’t work out. Good work by General Kelly for quickly firing that dog!
Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump
4:31 AM - 14 Aug 2018
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1029329583672307712
148Taphophile13
Jeff Pon, Office of Personnel Management chief, resigns:
https://thehill.com/business-a-lobbying/410155-trump-ousts-federal-personnel-dir...
Wikipedia has a comprehensive list in case you can't remember all the names:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Trump_administration_dismissals_and_resign...
https://thehill.com/business-a-lobbying/410155-trump-ousts-federal-personnel-dir...
Wikipedia has a comprehensive list in case you can't remember all the names:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Trump_administration_dismissals_and_resign...
149margd
Nikki Haley out hours after President Trump calls Blasey Ford an evil hoaxer. Probably just a coincidence.
David Frum @davidfrum | 9 Oct 2018
Replying to @davidfrum, Santa Claus, CEO @SantaInc
I think Nikki Haley put in her two weeks notice when Trump got mocked at the General Assembly.
Replying to @davidfrum, Leora @leoralicious
I think she's going to get appointed to Lindsay Graham's seat and then run to finish his term.
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Laurence Tribe @tribelaw | 9 Oct 2018
Not stunning at all. Bolton and Pompeo are chewing up her turf,
she’d always said it’d be a 2-yr gig, & waiting past midterms to announce wd’ve been too risky for someone as savvy as Haley.
QED!
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UN Ambassador Nikki Haley resigns
Jamie Gangel, Jeremy Diamond, Kevin Liptak and Elise Labott | October 9, 2018
...(Trump) "She told me probably six months ago, 'You know maybe at end of the year -- at the end of the two year period -- but by the end of the year I want to take a little time off, I want to take a break,'"
..."We're all happy for you in one way, but we hate to lose -- hopefully you'll be coming back at some point but in a different capacity. You can have your pick," Trump said as Haley smiled broadly...
https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/09/politics/nikki-haley-resignation/index.html
David Frum @davidfrum | 9 Oct 2018
Replying to @davidfrum, Santa Claus, CEO @SantaInc
I think Nikki Haley put in her two weeks notice when Trump got mocked at the General Assembly.
Replying to @davidfrum, Leora @leoralicious
I think she's going to get appointed to Lindsay Graham's seat and then run to finish his term.
ETA__________________________________________________________
Laurence Tribe @tribelaw | 9 Oct 2018
Not stunning at all. Bolton and Pompeo are chewing up her turf,
she’d always said it’d be a 2-yr gig, & waiting past midterms to announce wd’ve been too risky for someone as savvy as Haley.
QED!
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UN Ambassador Nikki Haley resigns
Jamie Gangel, Jeremy Diamond, Kevin Liptak and Elise Labott | October 9, 2018
...(Trump) "She told me probably six months ago, 'You know maybe at end of the year -- at the end of the two year period -- but by the end of the year I want to take a little time off, I want to take a break,'"
..."We're all happy for you in one way, but we hate to lose -- hopefully you'll be coming back at some point but in a different capacity. You can have your pick," Trump said as Haley smiled broadly...
https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/09/politics/nikki-haley-resignation/index.html
150margd
E.P.A. Places the Head of Its Office of Children’s Health on Leave
Coral Davenport and Roni Caryn Rabin | Sept. 26, 2018
The Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday placed the head of its Office of Children’s Health Protection on administrative leave, an unusual move that appeared to reflect an effort to minimize the role of the office.
Dr. Ruth Etzel, a pediatrician and epidemiologist who has been a leader in children’s environmental health for 30 years, joined the E.P.A. in 2015 after having served as a senior officer for environmental health research at the World Health Organization. She was placed on administrative leave late Tuesday and asked to hand over her badge, keys and cellphone, according to an E.P.A. official familiar with the decision who was not authorized to discuss the move and who asked not to be identified.
The official said Dr. Etzel was not facing disciplinary action and would continue to receive pay and benefits. No explanation was offered...
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/26/climate/epa-etzel-children-health-program.htm...
Coral Davenport and Roni Caryn Rabin | Sept. 26, 2018
The Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday placed the head of its Office of Children’s Health Protection on administrative leave, an unusual move that appeared to reflect an effort to minimize the role of the office.
Dr. Ruth Etzel, a pediatrician and epidemiologist who has been a leader in children’s environmental health for 30 years, joined the E.P.A. in 2015 after having served as a senior officer for environmental health research at the World Health Organization. She was placed on administrative leave late Tuesday and asked to hand over her badge, keys and cellphone, according to an E.P.A. official familiar with the decision who was not authorized to discuss the move and who asked not to be identified.
The official said Dr. Etzel was not facing disciplinary action and would continue to receive pay and benefits. No explanation was offered...
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/26/climate/epa-etzel-children-health-program.htm...
1532wonderY
Kirstjen Nielsen seems about to be pushed. She hasn't been able to convey to Trump the complexities of the immigration laws she is required to uphold.
Trump is preparing to remove Kirstjen Nielsen as Homeland Security secretary, aides say
Colleagues who’ve worked closely with Nielsen and defend her performance at DHS say working for Trump on immigration issues is miserable because the president has an unrealistic view of border security and little patience for the intricacies of U.S. immigration law.
Trump is preparing to remove Kirstjen Nielsen as Homeland Security secretary, aides say
Colleagues who’ve worked closely with Nielsen and defend her performance at DHS say working for Trump on immigration issues is miserable because the president has an unrealistic view of border security and little patience for the intricacies of U.S. immigration law.
154mamzel
>153 2wonderY: I think the only intricacies he does understand have to do with his hair. I think that's the real reason he didn't attend the ceremony on Sunday.
1552wonderY
Kirsten Fontenrose, White House advisor, pushed for tough stand on Saudi government, quit on Friday.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/17/us/politics/trump-khashoggi-saudi-arabia.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/17/us/politics/trump-khashoggi-saudi-arabia.html
1562wonderY
Hoping his legal troubles follow him back to his hole.
Onis “Trey” Glenn III, who was the regional administrator for the Southeast region, based in Atlanta, announced his resignation in a Sunday letter to Acting EPA chief Andrew Wheeler.
Onis “Trey” Glenn III, who was the regional administrator for the Southeast region, based in Atlanta, announced his resignation in a Sunday letter to Acting EPA chief Andrew Wheeler.
1572wonderY
! Ryan Zinke is leaving Interior, pressured by multiple ethics investigations.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/15/us/ryan-zinke-interior-secretary.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/15/us/ryan-zinke-interior-secretary.html
158margd
Secretary of Defense Mattis resigns, (the last adult to leave the room?):
Ryan Browne @rabrowne75 (CNN) | 4:22 PM - 20 Dec 2018:
Defense officials tell me Mattis went to the White House to discuss Syria & that he was livid after reading reports that Turkey's Defense Minister threatened to kill US-backed Kurds & put them in ditches once the US withdrew. He was incensed at this notion of betrayal of an ally
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Dafna Linzer @DafnaLinzer (Managing Editor, Politics for NBC News & MSNBC) | 7:10 PM - 20 Dec 2018:
Here is what happened when Trump announced US troops would leave Syria: Putin applauded and the secretary of defense resigned.
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Ronald Klain @RonaldKlain (Gen Counsel, Revolution LLC. Former Ebola Czar. Ex-Obama/Biden + Clinton/Gore WH) | 6:05 PM - 20 Dec 2018:
When someone nicknamed Mad Dog says the President is off the rails, that’s a very bad sign about where things stand.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1 (MSNBC) | 7:20 PM - 20 Dec 2018
Interesting banner on @maddow tonight: "MATTIS FIRST DEFENSE SECRETARY IN HISTORY TO RESIGN IN PROTEST"
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Laurence Tribe @tribelaw (Harvard Law) | 6h6 hours ago:
...if you were hoping a grownup like Jim Mattis would stand between Trump and the nuclear codes.
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No More Excuses: The resignation of James Mattis leaves Congress to face the truth about Trump.
David Frum | Dec 20, 2018
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/12/james-mattiss-resignation-leav...
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ETA:
John Dean @JohnWDean | 5:23 PM - 21 Dec 2018
WOW. Howell Raines (former ex editor of the New York Times on Chris Hayes show) says he reads the Mattis letter as a historic document written by a military scholar indicating that Donald Trump is a treasonous president, not to mention totally “unhinged.”
Ryan Browne @rabrowne75 (CNN) | 4:22 PM - 20 Dec 2018:
Defense officials tell me Mattis went to the White House to discuss Syria & that he was livid after reading reports that Turkey's Defense Minister threatened to kill US-backed Kurds & put them in ditches once the US withdrew. He was incensed at this notion of betrayal of an ally
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Dafna Linzer @DafnaLinzer (Managing Editor, Politics for NBC News & MSNBC) | 7:10 PM - 20 Dec 2018:
Here is what happened when Trump announced US troops would leave Syria: Putin applauded and the secretary of defense resigned.
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Ronald Klain @RonaldKlain (Gen Counsel, Revolution LLC. Former Ebola Czar. Ex-Obama/Biden + Clinton/Gore WH) | 6:05 PM - 20 Dec 2018:
When someone nicknamed Mad Dog says the President is off the rails, that’s a very bad sign about where things stand.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1 (MSNBC) | 7:20 PM - 20 Dec 2018
Interesting banner on @maddow tonight: "MATTIS FIRST DEFENSE SECRETARY IN HISTORY TO RESIGN IN PROTEST"
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Laurence Tribe @tribelaw (Harvard Law) | 6h6 hours ago:
...if you were hoping a grownup like Jim Mattis would stand between Trump and the nuclear codes.
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No More Excuses: The resignation of James Mattis leaves Congress to face the truth about Trump.
David Frum | Dec 20, 2018
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/12/james-mattiss-resignation-leav...
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John Dean @JohnWDean | 5:23 PM - 21 Dec 2018
WOW. Howell Raines (former ex editor of the New York Times on Chris Hayes show) says he reads the Mattis letter as a historic document written by a military scholar indicating that Donald Trump is a treasonous president, not to mention totally “unhinged.”
159rolandperkins
Glad to see that Mattis isnʻt breaking the pattern that shows Trumpʻs incompetence; but I think he has a wrong reason for resigning: He is infuriated by Trumpʻs leaning toward Turkey and away fro Saudi Arabia in the Jamal Khashoggi case -- and probably, in general, by DJTʻs disparaging of NATO. (Turkey is still a Nato member, and the Saudis never have been.)
160Ardagor
He is not leaning away from Saudi Arabia. He want to save the the Saudi Prince so bad, that he asked Erdogan what he would need to ease the pressure and the answer was "get out of our way in Syria".
161rolandperkins
Thanks for the info, @Ardagor and sorry about it. (I thought DJT was showing signs of sporadic sanity; if youʻre right, then, not so,)
I donʻt know enough about the Turks/Syrian Kurds situation to
comment, but I intend to look into it.
I donʻt know enough about the Turks/Syrian Kurds situation to
comment, but I intend to look into it.
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