Who will be Fired/Resign Next In The Trump Administration

How do republicans vote for a guy that is on the path to unchecked power and dictatorship.

Meanwhile they complain about Obama's executive orders????

Nuts. Got to get this guy out of power before he becomes a dictator.

 

Gee what was different then? trump's corruption forces republicans to sheer hypocrisy...

 

When you surrender your integrity for donald trump...

 

btw, pompeo's wife has been provided an office and a staff for a volunteer position she has had. His wife also accompanies him on state trips he makes (they pooh pooh the complaints about costs, since she travels with him and stays in his hotel room). So your tax dollars have been paying for her to have an office, have staff reporting to her, have her travel on state visits, and have members of her staff pick up dinners, walk their dog, take the dog to the groomers, and other personal errands.

 

Yet another Inspector General on the way out... and even less accountability for trump...

 

Old post, but can we marvel at how awful Russia Ron Johnson is? He is one of the worst Senators around, and for ****s sake this is a body that includes Ted Cruz, Rand Paul, etc.

Fun Fact, in the 2020 Senate Yearbook Russia Ron's page says: Most likely to ship Zyklon B to Germany while quoting Ayn Rand.

 

This resignation letter paints the picture that many people in the trump admin are faced with on a daily basis...

June 2, 2020

Hon. Mark T. Esper

Secretary of Defense

The Pentagon

Washington, D.C., 20301

Dear Secretary Esper,

I resign from the Defense Science Board, effective immediately.

When I joined the Board in early 2014, after leaving government service as Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, I again swore an oath of office, one familiar to you, that includes the commitment to “support and defend the Constitution of the United States . . . and to bear true faith and allegiance to the same.”

You recited that same oath on July 23, 2019, when you were sworn in as Secretary of Defense. On Monday, June 1, 2020, I believe that you violated that oath. Law-abiding protesters just outside the White House were dispersed using tear gas and rubber bullets — not for the sake of safety, but to clear a path for a presidential photo op. You then accompanied President Trump in walking from the White House to St. John’s Episcopal Church for that photo.

President Trump’s actions Monday night violated his oath to “take care that the laws be faithfully executed,” as well as the First Amendment “right of the people peaceably to assemble.” You may not have been able to stop President Trump from directing this appalling use of force, but you could have chosen to oppose it. Instead, you visibly supported it.

Anyone who takes the oath of office must decide where he or she will draw the line: What are the things that they will refuse to do? Secretary Esper, you have served honorably for many years, in active and reserve military duty, as Secretary of the Army, and now as Secretary of Defense. You must have thought long and hard about where that line should be drawn. I must now ask: If last night’s blatant violations do not cross the line for you, what will?

Unfortunately, it appears there may be few if any lines that President Trump is not willing to cross, so you will probably be faced with this terrible question again in the coming days. You may be asked to take, or to direct the men and women serving in the U.S. military to take, actions that further undermine the Constitution and harm Americans.

As a concerned citizen, and as a former senior defense official who cares deeply about the military, I urge you to consider closely both your future actions and your future words. For example, some could interpret literally your suggestion to the nation’s governors Monday that they need to “dominate the battlespace.” I cannot believe that you see the United States as a “battlespace,” or that you believe our citizens must be “dominated.” Such language sends an extremely dangerous signal.

You have made life-and-death decisions in combat overseas; soon you may be asked to make life-and-death decisions about using the military on American streets and against Americans. Where will you draw the line, and when will you draw it?

I hope this letter of resignation will encourage you to again contemplate the obligations you undertook in your oath of office, as well as your obligations to the men and women in our military and other Americans whose lives may be at stake. In the event that at least some other senior officials may be inclined to ask these questions after reading this letter, I am making it public.

I wish you the best, in very difficult times. The sanctity of the U.S. Constitution, and the lives of Americans, may depend on your choices.

Sincerely,


James N. Miller

James N. Miller served as under secretary of defense for policy from 2012 to 2014. He provided The Post with a copy of his resignation letter, which he submitted to Defense Secretary Mark T. Esper on Tuesday evening.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opin...-photo-op-thats-why-im-resigning/?arc404=true

 

senator grassley feeling a little sassy today...

 

Is water wet?

 

Gee... I wonder why trump and barr are so focused on firing Inspector Generals?

 

Jennifer Rubin is a conservative writer for the Washington Post. Campaign manager brad parscale? Son-in-law jared kushner?

So who is the fall guy for Trump’s sputtering campaign?
By Jennifer Rubin
June 17, 2020 at 6:45 a.m. CDT

President Trump’s campaign is in free fall. New polling from released Tuesday showed he is 16 points behind former vice president Joe Biden in Michigan. The Detroit Free Press reported:

Two weeks ago, EPIC-MRA of Lansing, a polling firm that does work for the Free Press, released a survey showing former Vice President Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic nominee, leading Trump 53%-41% in Michigan, a 12-point edge.
But a second poll, started on May 31, a day after the first poll began, and concluded a day later than the first poll, on June 4, showed Biden leading Trump 55%-39% in Michigan, a 16-point margin.
A stunning 61 percent of respondents in the Michigan poll report having a negative view of Trump. And the bad news doesn’t end there: A Democratic Public Policy Polling survey shows him trailing Biden by two points — in Georgia. The Daily Kos/Civiqs poll had him behind Biden by a 49-to-45 margin — in Arizona.​

To make matters worse, his campaign has been spending loads of money in many of the states where he is behind. The Associated Press reports, “President Donald Trump’s campaign manager warned in late spring that his juggernaut political operation — the ‘Death Star,’ he called it — was about to start ‘pressing FIRE’ for the first time.” Well, he did fire to the tune of $24 million in six battleground states: Arizona, Florida, Michigan, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. Polling continues to show him losing in every one of these, in some cases (e.g., Michigan) by large margins. Was Trump firing blanks, or would the polling have been even worse without the ad spending?

Former Wisconsin governor Scott Walker (R) whined, “That’s the part that’s frustrating. It’s headed back in the right direction, but then every once in a while the message gets off track from the good things that he and his team are doing.” What were the good things? The pandemic death count? His attack on peaceful protesters in Lafayette Square?

It’s hard to know for sure, but it seems Trump is bleeding money with little to show for it. As the AP reports, “The president spent almost $5.6 million on television and online advertising in Florida between April 26 and June 6.” In the latest polls from TIPP taken between June 9 and 11, he trails in Florida by 10 points or more; before that, polls from May showed him losing by three points.

Trump and his advisers can lie to themselves that all these polls are wrong, but donors and Republican candidates are going to figure out Trump’s campaign is in real trouble. Trump will almost certainly not take responsibility for his own mishandling of the pandemic (which crashed the economy) or his disastrous response to George Floyd’s murder. When in doubt, Trump will find someone to fire. That might be campaign manager Brad Parscale or even his son-in-law Jared Kushner.

Clearheaded observers will recognize that Trump is overexposed, so his ads do not pack much punch. But more important, the free media he has garnered — including the incident at Lafayette Square and his feeble appearance at the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, N.Y. — is overwhelmingly negative. Furthermore, with tens of millions of Americans still unemployed, his Pollyanna ads and empty boasts about “successes” ring hollow.

Keep in mind a few points: First, the polls show the state of the race now, not in November. Given how dreadful the results, however, Trump may not want to bet Parscale can turn things around and may push for a change in the campaign. (The problem, of course, is Trump, but he remains in total denial.) Second, Biden and the Democratic National Committee raised a ton of money last month (more than $80 million) and, aside from digital ads, haven’t spent much money, in large part because the presumptive nominee has not been traveling around the country (although he did go to Houston to meet with Floyd’s family and has made several trips to Pennsylvania). Finally, the polling and ad spending seem to bolster my longtime suspicion that money is overrated in national politics. You need enough, but you don’t need more than the other guy. What you need is a decent record and candidate, neither of which Republicans have.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/06/17/so-who-is-fall-guy-trumps-sputtering-campaign/

 

'Wednesday night massacre' as Trump appointee takes over at global media agency

https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/17/media/us-agency-for-global-media-michael-pack/index.html