Actually wrong again. But I am sure it is easy to get an internship at the white house as a college student. I don't you need grades or anything. But I am sure all of Trump appointees are qualified
hope hicks, please say this is fake news. I would have never expected that . https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/27/...s-house-intelligence-committee-testimony.html
Most times your inane babblings are either not worth a response or good for a laugh. But here's a great opportunity to ridicule you publicly, so I will respond. First, the "hijabi" you seem to want to stake this "whataboutism" on was a Bengali women who was NOT a political appointee. While working on her degree in international affairs at George Washington University, she was first a college intern to Senator Barbara Mikulski, then in the Department of Commerce, and in the Office of Presidential Correspondence. So right there she had better experience than some of trump's political appointees. She was later hired after graduating as a senior analyst. A few years later she moved into a position as an aide to Ben Rhodes in the NSC as an adviser for strategic communications. So she had both the educational experience and even the professional job experience for her job in the administration. Your only possible real complaint with her is that you appear to be butthurt that she resigned instead of working for trump's administration and apparently because she is a Muslim. https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/02/rumana-ahmed-trump/517521/ https://heavy.com/news/2017/02/ruma...uits-trump-atlantic-photos-bio-obama-advisor/ Now lets compare her to the people trump has brought in. Like someone that is significantly cutting the HUD budget while getting a $31k dining room set. Or a Secretary of the Interior of his selling off public lands while hiding ownership in a gun company and jetting around in government-supplied and paid for jets for all-important horseback riding photo ops. Or hey, about the number one law enforcement officer in the country that had to recuse himself from the number one investigation of Russian meddling in our democratic elections because he had his own undisclosed relationships with Russians? And I can go into the list of people trump brought in that are either under indictment, or were forced to resign, or were fired for a range of reasons from lying about their experience to illegal interactions with Russians and other foreign entities or for spousal abuse. So... do you really want to compare Ms. Ahmed to trump's cabinet members? Seriously? people think you are a fool... don't give them more reasons to help them know it...
LOL... this is the WH Director of Communications, saying she is has lied for the president. Just not really big whoppers. While ducking questions as ordered by trump's WH. Hicks acknowledges white lies, but won't talk White House in testimony https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/26/politics/hope-hicks-house-intelligence-committee/index.html
...You know the thing about Ben Carson and other "free-thinking" Negroes like him...? ...they don't seem to do anything FOR free...do they? Like massa, like slave. ...More evidence, I suppose, that "brains" and "sense" aren't exactly the same thing, are they?
Yes, I’m sure that opening and reading letters from the schoolchildren of America really gives a 22 to 24 year old the insight needed to conduct national security analysis. And as for Ben Carson, from all accounts he has done a great job at HUD and unearthed billions in hidden waste. I think he’s more than earned whatever silverware you guys want to attack him over.
LOL... she advised on communicating with people (both Muslims here in the US and with Muslim people in the middle east). Again, someone who worked in the area of presidential communication and with a degree in international affairs from a leading university would seem able to fulfill that role. Seems she must have been qualified enough and/or did sufficiently good work to continue her role for the incoming trump administration. Unless you have evidence to the contrary? And as for Ben Carson? Yea, you go with that defense for spending $31,000 on a dining room set in Carson's offices. btw, there is more to the story... http://theweek.com/speedreads/758022/planning-cuts-hud-purchased-31000-table-ben-carsons-office
Who'd thunk? Trump campaign chief lends name to penny stock tied to felon https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-...to-felon/?ftag=CNM-00-10aab7e&linkId=48630882
I good solid wood table can last you 20 years at least. With straight-line depreciation, that's only like $4.25 per day to have a place to set your plates. And really, assuming this is an 8-seater table, that's just 53 cents per person per day. If you take 3 meals a day there (since Ben is so hard working), 18 cents. Basically nothing. And remember, this isn't just a dining table, it's a dining set -- so you also get a chair and there's a hutch as well. (If necessary: ). Honestly, I don't have much problem with it, other than he should get whatever approvals are required by the rules. Cabinet secretaries should have nice stuff. They aren't going to be able to project much gravitas if they're hosting VIPs at a paper table from Ikea.
While I don't think the table has anything to do with Carson's gravitas (or complete lack thereof), I agree that this is a silly story. Too many other questionable/illegal things going on with this administration to worry about crap like this.
While there are bigger issues with trump's presidency, I don't think this is a "silly story." While I don't think it is reasonable to expect the trump administration to align politically with my beliefs of how government should run (trump and the republicans won the election), I do think its reasonable that the government should run ethically and efficiently. Just as I think its reasonable that my own company operates ethically and efficiently. For example, if my company puts out cost controls and yet senior execs go out of junkets and redecorate their offices lavishly, I think that is important to speak out. In this case, trump and Carson are cutting HUD spending by billions... while the Carson's office is redecorating with a $31,000 dining room set? Put it in this way... how many people being hurt by HUD budget cuts could use some of that money being spent to redecorate?
that's what a HUD official told the Carsons. that under federal law the department could not spend more than $5,000 on decorating the secretary's office without providing advance notice to the House and Senate appropriations committees They didn't want to notify the appropriation committees, and leaned on the HUD official to find the funds to pay for the $31,000 dining table anyway. The HUD official resisted, she was demoted. http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-ben-carson-20180228-story.html This latest controversy is relatively minor relative to the $485,000 consulting contract that HUD had awarded to his daughter-in-law, bypassing the competitive bidding process. https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/2/3/16967628/ben-carson-ethics-hud-son-baltimore
It appears Carson is sending back the $31,000 dining room set. Ben Carson says he wants to cancel $31,000 dining room furniture order https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/01/politics/carson-dining-room-canceled/index.html Ben Carson's story:
this invalidates / contradicts HUD spokes person's initial response that HUD had only spent $3 for it, and will not cancel the order now, a couple days later, and probably after receiving an order from the WH, Carson's team reversed their original position.
