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U.S. Envoy To The Coalition Against ISIS Resigns Over Trump's Syria Policy
December 22, 2018
Brett McGurk, the U.S. envoy to the coalition fighting the Islamic State, has announced his resignation, reportedly in protest of President Trump's decision this week to withdraw all U.S. forces from Syria.
McGurk, a veteran diplomat with more than a decade of experience in Iraq, had worked with the 79-member global coalition led by the U.S. to reclaim territory seized by the Islamic State in both Syria and Iraq.
His resignation is effective December 31st. McGurk was originally planning to leave his job in mid-February.
McGurk wrote an email to his colleagues explaining his resignation, according to The New York Times. "The recent decision by the president came as a shock and was a complete reversal of policy that was articulated to us," McGurk wrote. "It left our coalition partners confused and our fighting partners bewildered."
"I worked this week to help manage some of the fallout but — as many of you heard in my meetings and phone calls — I ultimately concluded that I could not carry out these new instructions and maintain my integrity"...
https://www.npr.org/2018/12/22/679535003/u-s-envoy-to-the-coalition-against-isis...
December 22, 2018
Brett McGurk, the U.S. envoy to the coalition fighting the Islamic State, has announced his resignation, reportedly in protest of President Trump's decision this week to withdraw all U.S. forces from Syria.
McGurk, a veteran diplomat with more than a decade of experience in Iraq, had worked with the 79-member global coalition led by the U.S. to reclaim territory seized by the Islamic State in both Syria and Iraq.
His resignation is effective December 31st. McGurk was originally planning to leave his job in mid-February.
McGurk wrote an email to his colleagues explaining his resignation, according to The New York Times. "The recent decision by the president came as a shock and was a complete reversal of policy that was articulated to us," McGurk wrote. "It left our coalition partners confused and our fighting partners bewildered."
"I worked this week to help manage some of the fallout but — as many of you heard in my meetings and phone calls — I ultimately concluded that I could not carry out these new instructions and maintain my integrity"...
https://www.npr.org/2018/12/22/679535003/u-s-envoy-to-the-coalition-against-isis...
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Why Intelligence Leadership Won’t Resign in Response to Trump’s Criticisms
David Priess | January 31, 2019
...here are four plausible reasons—alone or in combination with each other—to help understand why Haspel, Wray, Nakasone, Cardillo, Ashley and Coats are staying put.
First, today’s intelligence leaders are all too aware that leaving in protest would open their positions to nominees more likely than they are to give in to pressure from the president....
Second, intelligence officers have faced pushback on intelligence judgments, and even outright hostility to uncomfortable truths, many times before...
Third, intelligence leaders, more than chiefs of other agencies and departments, have traditionally set public service aside upon finishing their careers...
Fourth, and probably most importantly, intelligence leaders more than Cabinet officers feel responsible to not only the president but also many other U.S. government officials...
Despite their apparent disagreements with the president, the chiefs of intelligence agencies will probably not, as Trump suggested, “go back to school”—or otherwise leave their posts.
https://www.lawfareblog.com/why-intelligence-leadership-wont-resign-response-tru...
David Priess | January 31, 2019
...here are four plausible reasons—alone or in combination with each other—to help understand why Haspel, Wray, Nakasone, Cardillo, Ashley and Coats are staying put.
First, today’s intelligence leaders are all too aware that leaving in protest would open their positions to nominees more likely than they are to give in to pressure from the president....
Second, intelligence officers have faced pushback on intelligence judgments, and even outright hostility to uncomfortable truths, many times before...
Third, intelligence leaders, more than chiefs of other agencies and departments, have traditionally set public service aside upon finishing their careers...
Fourth, and probably most importantly, intelligence leaders more than Cabinet officers feel responsible to not only the president but also many other U.S. government officials...
Despite their apparent disagreements with the president, the chiefs of intelligence agencies will probably not, as Trump suggested, “go back to school”—or otherwise leave their posts.
https://www.lawfareblog.com/why-intelligence-leadership-wont-resign-response-tru...
32wonderY
Bill Shine abruptly leaves the White House. Remains with the 2020 campaign:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/bill-shine-abruptly-resigns-as-white-hou...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/bill-shine-abruptly-resigns-as-white-hou...
4Taphophile13
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen is resigning:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/kirstjen-nielsen-resigning-dhs-secretary-expected-t...
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/kirstjen-nielsen-resigning-dhs-secretary-expected-t...
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Trump aides targeted in corporate blacklist effort by immigration, civil rights groups
Bradford Betz | April 8, 2019
As outgoing Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen looks for her next job following her resignation Sunday, she may find herself battling a liberal blacklisting effort against those who've served in the Trump administration.
Nielsen's name appears on a list that a cabal of immigration and civil rights groups recently sent to the CEOs of American companies, urging them not to hire Trump officials who were involved in last year's separation of migrant children from their families.
Other current and former Trump administration officials targeted include John Kelly, the former White House chief of staff, and Sarah Sanders, the current White House press secretary.
"Some of these individuals have left the administration in recent months," the letter to the CEOs states. "Regardless of when they leave, they should not be allowed to seek refuge in your boardrooms or corner offices. Allowing them to step off the revolving door and into your welcoming arms should be a nonstarter."...
The letter was made public Friday, but was dated Saturday to coincide with the one-year anniversary of the "zero tolerance" border policy announced by then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
That policy led to the separation of more than 2,000 migrant children from their families at the border -- as well as an outpouring of condemnation. Ultimately, the Trump administration reversed the policy...
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/immigration-civil-rights-groups-pressure-fortun...
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Jeffrey Toobin @JeffreyToobin (New Yorker) | 4:59 AM - 8 Apr 2019
.@JeffreyToobin calls Trump “the great reputation killer.”
Kirstjen Nielsen “was a reasonably admired bureaucrat. For the rest of her life people will look at her and think, ‘Oh, that’s the woman who put children in cages.’” http://cnn.it/2U3Ho2b
Bradford Betz | April 8, 2019
As outgoing Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen looks for her next job following her resignation Sunday, she may find herself battling a liberal blacklisting effort against those who've served in the Trump administration.
Nielsen's name appears on a list that a cabal of immigration and civil rights groups recently sent to the CEOs of American companies, urging them not to hire Trump officials who were involved in last year's separation of migrant children from their families.
Other current and former Trump administration officials targeted include John Kelly, the former White House chief of staff, and Sarah Sanders, the current White House press secretary.
"Some of these individuals have left the administration in recent months," the letter to the CEOs states. "Regardless of when they leave, they should not be allowed to seek refuge in your boardrooms or corner offices. Allowing them to step off the revolving door and into your welcoming arms should be a nonstarter."...
The letter was made public Friday, but was dated Saturday to coincide with the one-year anniversary of the "zero tolerance" border policy announced by then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
That policy led to the separation of more than 2,000 migrant children from their families at the border -- as well as an outpouring of condemnation. Ultimately, the Trump administration reversed the policy...
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/immigration-civil-rights-groups-pressure-fortun...
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Jeffrey Toobin @JeffreyToobin (New Yorker) | 4:59 AM - 8 Apr 2019
.@JeffreyToobin calls Trump “the great reputation killer.”
Kirstjen Nielsen “was a reasonably admired bureaucrat. For the rest of her life people will look at her and think, ‘Oh, that’s the woman who put children in cages.’” http://cnn.it/2U3Ho2b
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Claire Grady, Homeland Security Undersecretary for management--collateral damage:
The Federal Vacancies Reform Act Under Trump: The Department of Homeland Security Edition
Steve Vladeck | Tuesday, April 9, 2019
...(Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen) Nielsen tweeted a copy of her resignation letter at 7:02 p.m. Eastern time, one full hour after President Trump tweeted that she would be stepping down and that he was naming Kevin McAleenan, the Commissioner of Customs and Border Protection (CBP), as the acting secretary of homeland security.
Three and a half hours later, at 10:36 p.m. Eastern time, Nielsen tweeted again, this time stating that she has “agreed to stay on as Secretary through Wednesday, April 10th to assist with an orderly transition and ensure that key DHS missions are not impacted.” By that point, it had perhaps become clear to the White House that there was a serious legal obstacle to the president’s effort to install McAleenan as acting secretary, in the form of an obscure provision of the Homeland Security Act, 6 U.S.C. §113(g).
...until Monday afternoon, there was, in fact, a Senate-confirmed undersecretary for management: Claire Grady, who was nominated to that position by … President Trump (and confirmed by the Senate in August 2017). Indeed, under Section 113(g), Grady had already been serving as acting deputy secretary since April 2018. Thus, by operation of law, Grady would have become the acting secretary whenever Nielsen’s resignation became effective, no matter what President Trump proclaims. Perhaps for no other reason than to avoid the appearance that the president didn’t know what he was doing, Grady was apparently given her walking papers on Monday...
https://www.lawfareblog.com/federal-vacancies-reform-act-under-trump-department-...
The Federal Vacancies Reform Act Under Trump: The Department of Homeland Security Edition
Steve Vladeck | Tuesday, April 9, 2019
...(Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen) Nielsen tweeted a copy of her resignation letter at 7:02 p.m. Eastern time, one full hour after President Trump tweeted that she would be stepping down and that he was naming Kevin McAleenan, the Commissioner of Customs and Border Protection (CBP), as the acting secretary of homeland security.
Three and a half hours later, at 10:36 p.m. Eastern time, Nielsen tweeted again, this time stating that she has “agreed to stay on as Secretary through Wednesday, April 10th to assist with an orderly transition and ensure that key DHS missions are not impacted.” By that point, it had perhaps become clear to the White House that there was a serious legal obstacle to the president’s effort to install McAleenan as acting secretary, in the form of an obscure provision of the Homeland Security Act, 6 U.S.C. §113(g).
...until Monday afternoon, there was, in fact, a Senate-confirmed undersecretary for management: Claire Grady, who was nominated to that position by … President Trump (and confirmed by the Senate in August 2017). Indeed, under Section 113(g), Grady had already been serving as acting deputy secretary since April 2018. Thus, by operation of law, Grady would have become the acting secretary whenever Nielsen’s resignation became effective, no matter what President Trump proclaims. Perhaps for no other reason than to avoid the appearance that the president didn’t know what he was doing, Grady was apparently given her walking papers on Monday...
https://www.lawfareblog.com/federal-vacancies-reform-act-under-trump-department-...
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Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein to Step Down in May
Katie Benner | April 29, 2019
...reputation as a principled Republican lawyer with a distaste for politics that had been honed over 30 years as a federal prosecutor and United States attorney.
...balancing act began almost immediately after Mr. Rosenstein’s confirmation as the No. 2 Justice Department official in April 2017. Two weeks later, Mr. Trump used a memo written by Mr. Rosenstein as a pretext to abruptly fire James B. Comey, the director of the F.B.I., a decision that privately upset Mr. Rosenstein because it was not true. When the president asked Mr. Rosenstein to publicly take responsibility for Mr. Comey’s firing, he declined and told Mr. Trump that he would not lie.
Amid public outrage over the firing, Mr. Rosenstein appointed Mr. Mueller to take over the F.B.I.’s investigation into whether Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election and what part any members of the Trump campaign may have played in those efforts, as well as whether the president tried to obstruct the investigation.
He then oversaw Mr. Mueller’s work because Jeff Sessions, a former Trump campaign adviser and the attorney general at the time, had recused himself from all campaign-related inquiries.
He did not use his oversight of the special counsel’s office to veto Mr. Mueller’s investigative requests or suppress his work, which he knew the president would have wanted. But throughout the investigation, and Mr. Trump’s efforts to end the inquiry and attack the department, he publicly praised the president as a defender of the rule of law.
His job was at times threatened as the Russia investigation drew closer to Mr. Trump’s inner circle and the president worked publicly and privately to undermine the department and its officials. And he was nearly fired in September, after The New York Times revealed that he had discussed the possibility of removing Mr. Trump from office and wearing a wire into meetings with the president.
But Mr. Rosenstein managed to get back into Mr. Trump’s good graces and see the special counsel’s investigation through to the end...
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/29/us/politics/rod-rosenstein-resigns.html
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Read 1p letter at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/rod-rosenstein-resigns
Katie Benner | April 29, 2019
...reputation as a principled Republican lawyer with a distaste for politics that had been honed over 30 years as a federal prosecutor and United States attorney.
...balancing act began almost immediately after Mr. Rosenstein’s confirmation as the No. 2 Justice Department official in April 2017. Two weeks later, Mr. Trump used a memo written by Mr. Rosenstein as a pretext to abruptly fire James B. Comey, the director of the F.B.I., a decision that privately upset Mr. Rosenstein because it was not true. When the president asked Mr. Rosenstein to publicly take responsibility for Mr. Comey’s firing, he declined and told Mr. Trump that he would not lie.
Amid public outrage over the firing, Mr. Rosenstein appointed Mr. Mueller to take over the F.B.I.’s investigation into whether Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election and what part any members of the Trump campaign may have played in those efforts, as well as whether the president tried to obstruct the investigation.
He then oversaw Mr. Mueller’s work because Jeff Sessions, a former Trump campaign adviser and the attorney general at the time, had recused himself from all campaign-related inquiries.
He did not use his oversight of the special counsel’s office to veto Mr. Mueller’s investigative requests or suppress his work, which he knew the president would have wanted. But throughout the investigation, and Mr. Trump’s efforts to end the inquiry and attack the department, he publicly praised the president as a defender of the rule of law.
His job was at times threatened as the Russia investigation drew closer to Mr. Trump’s inner circle and the president worked publicly and privately to undermine the department and its officials. And he was nearly fired in September, after The New York Times revealed that he had discussed the possibility of removing Mr. Trump from office and wearing a wire into meetings with the president.
But Mr. Rosenstein managed to get back into Mr. Trump’s good graces and see the special counsel’s investigation through to the end...
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/29/us/politics/rod-rosenstein-resigns.html
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Read 1p letter at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/rod-rosenstein-resigns
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Sarah Sanders leaving as White House press secretary, Trump hints she may run for Arkansas governor
Christal Hayes and John Fritze | June 13, 2019
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/06/13/sarah-sanders-donald-tru...
Christal Hayes and John Fritze | June 13, 2019
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/06/13/sarah-sanders-donald-tru...
9margd
At least he has a sense of shame?
John Sanders Resigns as Head of Customs and Border Protection
Departure comes as administration deals with crisis of families and children in U.S. custody
Louise Radnofsky and Alicia A. Caldwell | June 25, 2019 2:47 pm ET
WASHINGTON—The acting head of the main agency tasked with policing U.S. borders is resigning, becoming the latest Trump immigration official to depart just as the administration grapples with the crisis involving families and children in U.S. custody...
https://www.wsj.com/articles/john-sanders-resigns-as-head-of-customs-and-border-...
John Sanders Resigns as Head of Customs and Border Protection
Departure comes as administration deals with crisis of families and children in U.S. custody
Louise Radnofsky and Alicia A. Caldwell | June 25, 2019 2:47 pm ET
WASHINGTON—The acting head of the main agency tasked with policing U.S. borders is resigning, becoming the latest Trump immigration official to depart just as the administration grapples with the crisis involving families and children in U.S. custody...
https://www.wsj.com/articles/john-sanders-resigns-as-head-of-customs-and-border-...
10Taphophile13
Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/07/12/alexander-acosta-stepping-down-as-labo...
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/07/12/alexander-acosta-stepping-down-as-labo...
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Jake Sherman @JakeSherman (Politico)| 9:15 PM · Jul 30, 2019:
NEWS ... Texas GOP Rep. Mike Conaway is retiring after 15 years in Congress. This is the fifth retirement in two weeks.
The GOP is losing some of its most well liked members. Roby. Mitchell. Conaway. Brooks. Olsen.
Retirements are again a problem for the House GOP
NEWS ... Texas GOP Rep. Mike Conaway is retiring after 15 years in Congress. This is the fifth retirement in two weeks.
The GOP is losing some of its most well liked members. Roby. Mitchell. Conaway. Brooks. Olsen.
Retirements are again a problem for the House GOP
13Molly3028
GOP members still of sound mind and body are jumping the administration's ship as fast as they can. I imagine the spouses and families of these people are thrilled.
142wonderY
Huh! Anthony Scaramucci breaks with the president.
Scaramucci no longer backs Trump's reelection, says change may be needed at top of ticket
Trump appeared to be angry over the weekend with Scaramucci after he called the President's recent visits to the grief-stricken cities of El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, following two mass shootings a "catastrophe."
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On Saturday, Trump ripped into Scaramucci in a pair of tweets, writing that the former aide, who served in the administration for 11 days in 2017, was fired "from a position that he was totally incapable of handling." Noting that Scaramucci regularly appears on TV, he added: "Anthony, who would do anything to come back in, should remember the only reason he is on TV, and it's not for being the Mooch!"
The President's tweets came several says after Scaramucci said last week on MSNBC that Trump's recent visits to El Paso and Dayton were a "catastrophe." On Monday, he told Berman of Trump's trips, "the only thing (Trump) was doing in those areas was talking about himself and praising himself and crowd sizes. And so it just -- one day after the next it gets worse and worse and worse."
Scaramucci no longer backs Trump's reelection, says change may be needed at top of ticket
Trump appeared to be angry over the weekend with Scaramucci after he called the President's recent visits to the grief-stricken cities of El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, following two mass shootings a "catastrophe."
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On Saturday, Trump ripped into Scaramucci in a pair of tweets, writing that the former aide, who served in the administration for 11 days in 2017, was fired "from a position that he was totally incapable of handling." Noting that Scaramucci regularly appears on TV, he added: "Anthony, who would do anything to come back in, should remember the only reason he is on TV, and it's not for being the Mooch!"
The President's tweets came several says after Scaramucci said last week on MSNBC that Trump's recent visits to El Paso and Dayton were a "catastrophe." On Monday, he told Berman of Trump's trips, "the only thing (Trump) was doing in those areas was talking about himself and praising himself and crowd sizes. And so it just -- one day after the next it gets worse and worse and worse."
152wonderY
Trump’s Top Adviser On The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Resigns
(Jason) Greenblatt, who didn’t have a formal background in diplomacy or foreign policy, was the Trump Organization’s executive vice president and the company’s chief legal officer before he joined the Trump administration.
(Jason) Greenblatt, who didn’t have a formal background in diplomacy or foreign policy, was the Trump Organization’s executive vice president and the company’s chief legal officer before he joined the Trump administration.
16margd
The New York Times @nytimes | 12:02 PM · Sep 10, 2019:
Breaking News: President Trump fired John R. Bolton, his third national security adviser, over differing approaches on Iran, North Korea and Afghanistan.
John Bolton Out as National Security Adviser
Peter Baker | Sept. 10, 2019
President Trump had complained privately in recent months that Mr. Bolton was too hawkish, a tension made worse in recent weeks over Iran and North Korea.
...Mr. Bolton saw his job as stopping Mr. Trump from making unwise agreements with America’s enemies.
...The rift between the president and his national security adviser owed as much to personality as to policy. The president never warmed to him, a dynamic that is often fatal in this White House.
...To his admirers, Mr. Bolton was supposed to be a check on what they feared would be naïve diplomacy, a cleareyed realist who would keep a president without prior experience in foreign affairs from giving away the store to wily adversaries. But Mr. Trump has long complained privately that Mr. Bolton was too willing to get the United States into another war.
The tension between the men was aggravated in recent months by the president’s decisions to call off a planned airstrike on Iran in retaliation for the downing of an American surveillance drone and to meet with Mr. Kim at the Demilitarized Zone and cross over into North Korea.
...He also clashed with officials at the Defense Department. At one point, military officials expressed alarm at Mr. Bolton’s requests for contingency war plans.
..Long before Mr. Trump popularized his “America First” slogan, Mr. Bolton termed himself an “Americanist” who prioritized a cold-eyed view of national interests and sovereignty over what they both saw as a fuzzy-headed fixation on democracy promotion and human rights. They shared a deep skepticism of globalism and multilateralism, a commonality that empowered Mr. Bolton to use his time in the White House to orchestrate the withdrawal of the United States from arms control treaties and other international agreements.
With Mr. Trump’s backing, Mr. Bolton likewise helped enact policies meant to pressure the Communist government in Cuba, reversing some but not all of the measures taken by President Barack Obama in a diplomatic opening to the island.
But if Mr. Trump’s original national security team was seen as restraining a mercurial new commander in chief, the president found himself sometimes restraining Mr. Bolton. ... the failed effort to push out President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela...North Korean short-range missile launches violated United Nations resolutions...overthrow the government of Iran...airstrike against Iranian radar...
https://www.nytimes.com/by/peter-baker
Breaking News: President Trump fired John R. Bolton, his third national security adviser, over differing approaches on Iran, North Korea and Afghanistan.
John Bolton Out as National Security Adviser
Peter Baker | Sept. 10, 2019
President Trump had complained privately in recent months that Mr. Bolton was too hawkish, a tension made worse in recent weeks over Iran and North Korea.
...Mr. Bolton saw his job as stopping Mr. Trump from making unwise agreements with America’s enemies.
...The rift between the president and his national security adviser owed as much to personality as to policy. The president never warmed to him, a dynamic that is often fatal in this White House.
...To his admirers, Mr. Bolton was supposed to be a check on what they feared would be naïve diplomacy, a cleareyed realist who would keep a president without prior experience in foreign affairs from giving away the store to wily adversaries. But Mr. Trump has long complained privately that Mr. Bolton was too willing to get the United States into another war.
The tension between the men was aggravated in recent months by the president’s decisions to call off a planned airstrike on Iran in retaliation for the downing of an American surveillance drone and to meet with Mr. Kim at the Demilitarized Zone and cross over into North Korea.
...He also clashed with officials at the Defense Department. At one point, military officials expressed alarm at Mr. Bolton’s requests for contingency war plans.
..Long before Mr. Trump popularized his “America First” slogan, Mr. Bolton termed himself an “Americanist” who prioritized a cold-eyed view of national interests and sovereignty over what they both saw as a fuzzy-headed fixation on democracy promotion and human rights. They shared a deep skepticism of globalism and multilateralism, a commonality that empowered Mr. Bolton to use his time in the White House to orchestrate the withdrawal of the United States from arms control treaties and other international agreements.
With Mr. Trump’s backing, Mr. Bolton likewise helped enact policies meant to pressure the Communist government in Cuba, reversing some but not all of the measures taken by President Barack Obama in a diplomatic opening to the island.
But if Mr. Trump’s original national security team was seen as restraining a mercurial new commander in chief, the president found himself sometimes restraining Mr. Bolton. ... the failed effort to push out President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela...North Korean short-range missile launches violated United Nations resolutions...overthrow the government of Iran...airstrike against Iranian radar...
https://www.nytimes.com/by/peter-baker
17proximity1
Bolton fired by Trump; he certainly didn't "jump ship".
So this moronic thread, entitled "Jumping ship count" --referring to members of the Trump administration "jumping ship", i.e., abandoning their appointments-- is really instead of that a thread which just throws together every sort of departure, being fired, dismissed at Trump's order, included with all the rest.
Typical of the inane bullshit which makes its home at this site.
So this moronic thread, entitled "Jumping ship count" --referring to members of the Trump administration "jumping ship", i.e., abandoning their appointments-- is really instead of that a thread which just throws together every sort of departure, being fired, dismissed at Trump's order, included with all the rest.
Typical of the inane bullshit which makes its home at this site.
18margd
'Off the charts': White House turnover is breaking records
Dareh GregorianSept. 23, 2019, 4:33 AM EDT
The top echelon of the Trump administration has become a high-speed revolving door — with turnover in 78 percent of the positions, a new study has found.
And 31 percent of those White House "A-Team" jobs have turned over more than once, the study* by the Brookings Institution shows.
"It's historic, it's unprecedented, it's off the charts," the study's author, Kathryn Dunn Tenpas, told NBC News. "I've never seen this kind of turnover before."
In just 32 months, President Donald Trump's rate of change has surpassed "all of his predecessors who served four-year terms," she said...
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/charts-white-house-turnover-breakin...
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* Tracking turnover in the Trump administration
Kathryn Dunn Tenpas | September 2019
https://www.brookings.edu/research/tracking-turnover-in-the-trump-administration...
Dareh GregorianSept. 23, 2019, 4:33 AM EDT
The top echelon of the Trump administration has become a high-speed revolving door — with turnover in 78 percent of the positions, a new study has found.
And 31 percent of those White House "A-Team" jobs have turned over more than once, the study* by the Brookings Institution shows.
"It's historic, it's unprecedented, it's off the charts," the study's author, Kathryn Dunn Tenpas, told NBC News. "I've never seen this kind of turnover before."
In just 32 months, President Donald Trump's rate of change has surpassed "all of his predecessors who served four-year terms," she said...
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/charts-white-house-turnover-breakin...
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* Tracking turnover in the Trump administration
Kathryn Dunn Tenpas | September 2019
https://www.brookings.edu/research/tracking-turnover-in-the-trump-administration...
192wonderY
>18 margd: Not to mention that most of the leavings this time stink of scandal or acrimony, rather than people just moving on.
20margd
Kurt Volker, Trump’s Envoy for Ukraine, Resigns
Peter Baker | Sept. 27, 2019
WASHINGTON — Kurt D. Volker, the State Department’s special envoy for Ukraine who got caught in the middle of the pressure campaign by President Trump and his lawyer, Rudolph W. Giuliani, to find damaging information about Democrats, abruptly resigned his post on Friday.
Mr. Volker, who told Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Friday that he was stepping down, offered no public explanation, but a person informed about his decision said he concluded that it was impossible to be effective in his assignment given the developments of recent days.
His departure was the first resignation since revelations about Mr. Trump’s efforts to pressure Ukraine’s president to investigate former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and other Democrats. The disclosures have triggered a full-blown House impeachment inquiry, and House leaders announced on Friday that they planned to interview Mr. Volker in a deposition on Thursday.
Mr. Volker, a widely respected former ambassador to NATO, served in the part-time, unpaid position of special envoy to help Ukraine resolve its armed confrontation with Russia-sponsored separatists. He was among the government officials who found themselves in an awkward position because of the search for dirt on Democrats, reluctant to cross the president or Mr. Giuliani yet wary of getting drawn into politics outside their purview.
...Mr. Volker’s departure...leaves the Trump administration with few senior officials versed in Ukraine’s struggles with Russia.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/27/us/politics/volker-ukraine-resigns.html
Peter Baker | Sept. 27, 2019
WASHINGTON — Kurt D. Volker, the State Department’s special envoy for Ukraine who got caught in the middle of the pressure campaign by President Trump and his lawyer, Rudolph W. Giuliani, to find damaging information about Democrats, abruptly resigned his post on Friday.
Mr. Volker, who told Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Friday that he was stepping down, offered no public explanation, but a person informed about his decision said he concluded that it was impossible to be effective in his assignment given the developments of recent days.
His departure was the first resignation since revelations about Mr. Trump’s efforts to pressure Ukraine’s president to investigate former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and other Democrats. The disclosures have triggered a full-blown House impeachment inquiry, and House leaders announced on Friday that they planned to interview Mr. Volker in a deposition on Thursday.
Mr. Volker, a widely respected former ambassador to NATO, served in the part-time, unpaid position of special envoy to help Ukraine resolve its armed confrontation with Russia-sponsored separatists. He was among the government officials who found themselves in an awkward position because of the search for dirt on Democrats, reluctant to cross the president or Mr. Giuliani yet wary of getting drawn into politics outside their purview.
...Mr. Volker’s departure...leaves the Trump administration with few senior officials versed in Ukraine’s struggles with Russia.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/27/us/politics/volker-ukraine-resigns.html
21margd
The other Ukraine scandal: Trump’s threats to our ambassador who wouldn’t bend
Philip Gordon and Daniel Fried | September 27, 2019
...the administration had prematurely curtailed the appointment of U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch following public attacks on her by the president’s eldest son and by his personal lawyer, Rudolph W. Giuliani. Administration officials then falsely claimed that she was leaving her post “as planned.” Now, we also know that Trump went on to denigrate the ambassador in a phone call to a foreign leader, telling Zelensky that “the woman” was “bad news” and vaguely but ominously noting that “she’s going to go through some things.”
...the consequences of Trump’s apparent willingness to punish a top U.S. representative, and to disparage her in a conversation with a foreign government, should not be underestimated. Allowing this to stand would not only have a chilling effect on the entire diplomatic corps but also could undermine U.S. foreign policy more broadly.
...It is impossible to know what “things” Trump was suggesting to Zelensky that the ambassador was going to go through, but it is impossible to conjure up any benign interpretation of those disturbing words. Yovanovitch, and all Foreign Service officers whose oath is to the country and the Constitution, deserve better.
...What Yovanovitch was doing in Ukraine — along with her colleagues from the European Union, International Monetary Fund and other multilateral institutions — was the tireless, difficult work of pressing the Ukrainian government to fight corruption, push ahead with reforms and continue to resist Russia’s aggression. It was not her job to press the Ukrainians to focus on what Trump apparently wanted them to focus on, namely digging up information to further his political interests. That Trump was apparently willing to leverage U.S. military assistance — potentially leaving Ukraine vulnerable to military threats from Russia — to advance those political interests is shocking and deeply damaging. That he was apparently willing to throw a U.S. ambassador under the bus as part of that effort makes it even worse.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-other-ukraine-scandal-trumps-threats...
Philip Gordon and Daniel Fried | September 27, 2019
...the administration had prematurely curtailed the appointment of U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch following public attacks on her by the president’s eldest son and by his personal lawyer, Rudolph W. Giuliani. Administration officials then falsely claimed that she was leaving her post “as planned.” Now, we also know that Trump went on to denigrate the ambassador in a phone call to a foreign leader, telling Zelensky that “the woman” was “bad news” and vaguely but ominously noting that “she’s going to go through some things.”
...the consequences of Trump’s apparent willingness to punish a top U.S. representative, and to disparage her in a conversation with a foreign government, should not be underestimated. Allowing this to stand would not only have a chilling effect on the entire diplomatic corps but also could undermine U.S. foreign policy more broadly.
...It is impossible to know what “things” Trump was suggesting to Zelensky that the ambassador was going to go through, but it is impossible to conjure up any benign interpretation of those disturbing words. Yovanovitch, and all Foreign Service officers whose oath is to the country and the Constitution, deserve better.
...What Yovanovitch was doing in Ukraine — along with her colleagues from the European Union, International Monetary Fund and other multilateral institutions — was the tireless, difficult work of pressing the Ukrainian government to fight corruption, push ahead with reforms and continue to resist Russia’s aggression. It was not her job to press the Ukrainians to focus on what Trump apparently wanted them to focus on, namely digging up information to further his political interests. That Trump was apparently willing to leverage U.S. military assistance — potentially leaving Ukraine vulnerable to military threats from Russia — to advance those political interests is shocking and deeply damaging. That he was apparently willing to throw a U.S. ambassador under the bus as part of that effort makes it even worse.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-other-ukraine-scandal-trumps-threats...
22margd
Resigned-last 45 days
Navy Sec
Asst Sec for Asia
Undersec for readiness
Sr Advisor for Internat Coop
DARPA Head
Undersec of Def for Intelligence
Def Sec’s Chief Staff
Pentagon Chief Staff
Then we kill #Soleimani & @SecPompeo
tells us how safe we are
Rubbish
#DemCast
#IMPOTUS
-Adam Cohen Lawyers for Good Government #DemCast @axidentaliberal · 2h Jan 6, 2020
Navy Sec
Asst Sec for Asia
Undersec for readiness
Sr Advisor for Internat Coop
DARPA Head
Undersec of Def for Intelligence
Def Sec’s Chief Staff
Pentagon Chief Staff
Then we kill #Soleimani & @SecPompeo
tells us how safe we are
Rubbish
#DemCast
#IMPOTUS
-Adam Cohen Lawyers for Good Government #DemCast @axidentaliberal · 2h Jan 6, 2020
24margd
>16 margd: John Bolton, contd.
Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump · 6h
Why didn’t John Bolton complain about this “nonsense” a long time ago, when he was very publicly terminated. He said, not that it matters, NOTHING!
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Laura Rozen @lrozen | Laura Rozen @lrozen · 5h
Sure sounds like he sent deputies to the NSC lawyers to officially report concerns, multiple times between July and his departure in September.
In addition to whatever he himself reported to NSC lawyers and Barr
To paraphrase Fiona Hill, “You tell the lawyers that Bolton is not part of whatever drug deal Sondland and Mulvaney are cooking up.”
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Lisa Grant @studiocafebleu | 12:49 AM · Jan 29, 2020
Underreported is the fact that Bolton was fired just after he returned from Poland, where he and Pence met with Zelensky.
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Laura Rozen @lrozen · 5h
yes, wonder how much it may have been a factor in their break.
but hard not to notice the hold was lifted one to two days after he was fired/resigned.
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C @Catie94505508 · 1h
Per Ambassador Bolton at the time:
09/09: Resigned verbally to Trump over phone call
09/10: Tendered Written Resignation on his own
09/11: Aid Released
Per Trump:
09/10: Bolton Terminated-Trump asked for resignation & Bolton gave it.
This needs clarifying on its own, IMO
Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump · 6h
Why didn’t John Bolton complain about this “nonsense” a long time ago, when he was very publicly terminated. He said, not that it matters, NOTHING!
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Laura Rozen @lrozen | Laura Rozen @lrozen · 5h
Sure sounds like he sent deputies to the NSC lawyers to officially report concerns, multiple times between July and his departure in September.
In addition to whatever he himself reported to NSC lawyers and Barr
To paraphrase Fiona Hill, “You tell the lawyers that Bolton is not part of whatever drug deal Sondland and Mulvaney are cooking up.”
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Lisa Grant @studiocafebleu | 12:49 AM · Jan 29, 2020
Underreported is the fact that Bolton was fired just after he returned from Poland, where he and Pence met with Zelensky.
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Laura Rozen @lrozen · 5h
yes, wonder how much it may have been a factor in their break.
but hard not to notice the hold was lifted one to two days after he was fired/resigned.
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C @Catie94505508 · 1h
Per Ambassador Bolton at the time:
09/09: Resigned verbally to Trump over phone call
09/10: Tendered Written Resignation on his own
09/11: Aid Released
Per Trump:
09/10: Bolton Terminated-Trump asked for resignation & Bolton gave it.
This needs clarifying on its own, IMO
