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Trump Staff Picks, Co-Conspirators and the Revolving Door of Departures

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The White House (aka Stephen Miller) fired another DHS official and they can't seem to get their stories straight about who will be the latest klown kar kandidate in a continuing series of "acting" replacements.

White House Fires Homeland Security Dept.’s General Counsel [MSN/NY Times]
The White House on Tuesday fired John Mitnick, the general counsel for the Department of Homeland Security, after months of shake-up at an agency responsible for carrying out President Trump’s immigration agenda...

A Trump administration official said Tuesday evening that Chad Mizelle, an associate counsel to the president, would replace Mr. Mitnick. But a Department of Homeland Security official said later that Joseph B. Maher, the department’s principal deputy general counsel, would be taking over.
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Where is the Congressional Oversight of this Department?

Ron Johnson (R-WI) is the chairman of the Senate Oversight Committee for Homeland Security. Is he doing any oversight?

Currently, there is:

 
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Brock Long resigned as FEMA head back in Feb after being accused of using government resources for personal use.

Now that we're up to the letter "J" in hurricane season, Trump has nominated Peter Gaynor to take his place.

Scoop: Trump expected to formally nominate Peter Gaynor as FEMA chief [Axios]
President Trump intends to tap deputy FEMA administrator Peter Gaynor as the agency's permanent director, 2 sources familiar with Trump's decision tell Axios.
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But because this is the Trump Administration, there has to be a scandal. Actually, make that scandals.

Why it matters: The administration has been operating without a confirmed FEMA chief during an active hurricane season after the nomination of Jeffrey Byard stalled in the Senate.

The state of play: Byard's nomination had not been withdrawn as of Wednesday evening, per one administration official.
  • But Trump has already made a decision to move forward with Gaynor, according to sources both inside and outside of the administration.
  • Gaynor has served as the agency's acting administrator while Byard's nomination stalled in the Senate. The president was impressed with the way Gaynor handled Hurricane Dorian.
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No one seems to know what the "personal issue" is that led to Jeff Byard's nomination being pulled.

Trump's nominee to lead FEMA could be derailed over personal issue [Politico]
President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Federal Emergency Management Agency is stalled in the Senate and may not be confirmed over personal matters, according to three sources familiar with the matter...

Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), who chairs the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee which oversees FEMA, confirmed Thursday that there are problems with Byard’s nomination.
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And then there's this...

FEMA official arrested for fraud over Hurricane Maria recovery effort in Puerto Rico [CNBC]
A former administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency was arrested Tuesday for taking bribes from the president of a company that landed $1.8 billion in federal contracts to repair Puerto Rico’s electrical grid after Hurricane Maria devastated the island in September 2017.

Federal authorities arrested Ahsha Tribble, FEMA’s former deputy administrator for the region that includes Puerto Rico. Donald Keith Ellison, the former president of Cobra Acquisitions was also arrested.
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Ah yes. TrumpCo.

Only the best people.
 
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As expected, another anti-LGBT nominee was voted out of committee. Eugene Scalia’s nomination for Secretary of Labor was voted out of committee on party lines with all Republicans voting for Scalia and all Democrats voting against.

Scalia Nears Labor Secretary Confirmation after Panel Vote [Bloomberg]
A Senate committee Sept. 24 approved Eugene Scalia’s nomination for labor secretary, setting the longtime management attorney up for a final confirmation vote later this week, according to Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.).

The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee voted 12-11 along party lines in favor of the Gibson Dunn partner and son of former Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. McConnell said in statements the morning of the vote that the full Senate will confirm Scalia this week.
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While another nominee was confirmed, even thought he is under investigation for lying to Congress. Jordani is also connected to the Koch network.

Senate confirms top Interior lawyer accused of lying to Congress [The Hill]
The Senate voted to confirm a top lawyer for the Department of the Interior who was accused of lying to Congress.

Daniel Jorjani, already the de facto top lawyer for the department, was confirmed with a 51-43 vote. He is the subject of an ongoing review by the Interior Department’s Office of the Inspector General.

Jorjani has been a much-eyed figured with Democrats and environmental watchdog groups for his involvement in crafting a new Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) policy that allows political appointees to review records requests and even withhold documents.
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The good news is that if the American electorate doesn't fuck up...we are only a year away from these appointments not mattering at all.
 
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rareboy said:
The good news is that if the American electorate doesn't fuck up...we are only a year away from these appointments not mattering at all.
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I've been reading pieces of Michael Lewis' book "The Fifth Risk". I can only read a chapter at a time because it really disturbing.

A few years back the Congress wrote legislation and allocated funds for Presidential transitions. This is what Chris Christie was assigned to do. Trump didn't want to do a transition because he felt it wasted HIS money (even though the Congress funded the transition and the law mandated it). All of the agencies in the last few months of the Obama Administration prepared briefing packets and setup transition meetings. Some agencies even allocated parking spaces for the new Administration staff members who would be attending the transition meetings.

No one showed up. Christie had been fired. Kushner and Pence took over and threw out all of Christie's work. They either didn't send anyone to the transition meetings or they were so far behind on finding and hiring people (and finding people who could pass background checks!) that didn't have any people hired who could attend the meetings.

This is why Rick Perry didn't know that the Department of Energy oversees the nuclear arsenal. He didn't attend any transition meetings for the department that he was put in charge of.

Not only do we have these ideologues in government who have an agenda set out by anarchists and libertarians like the Mercers and the Kochs, there's a whole group of people like Ben Carson who just don't know what the fuck they're doing. In some departments like the Department of Energy, there's a permanent staff of civil servants who keep the lights on but other departments like Agriculture, State and Homeland Security have been gutted to the point that it's going to take years to rebuild the lost expertise.
 
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rareboy said:
The good news is that if the American electorate doesn't fuck up...we are only a year away from these appointments not mattering at all.
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All I can say is: RUTH BADER GINSBERG, PLEASE STAY WELL ENOUGH TO CONTINUE TO 20 JAN 2021, AT LEAST.
 
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No shame. No shame at all.

Tom Price angling for Georgia Senate appointment [Politico]
Tom Price, the former Health and Human Services secretary, has applied for the appointment to replace Sen. Johnny Isakson, who is resigning at the end of this year.

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp will appoint a replacement for Isakson and has allowed interested candidates to apply through an online portal. Kemp’s office confirmed that Price’s application had been received. His application was first reported by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

Price, a former six-term Republican congressman, was appointed by President Donald Trump to serve as HHS secretary at the outset of his administration. He resigned in September 2017 after POLITICO revealed his use of private and government planes for travel.
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Volker has resigned as Envoy to the Ukraine.

The whistleblower at the heart of a controversy over Trump and Ukraine said that Volker, along with U.S. Ambassador to the EU Gordon Sondland, met with Ukrainian officials a day after Trump's July phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. According to the whistleblower, Volker and Sondland provided Ukrainian officials with advice on how to "navigate" Trump's demands.
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Guess who had better lawyer up?

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...Volker has resigned as Envoy to the Ukraine.
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Former ambassador to NATO, executive director of the McCain Institute for International Leadership...

Another career trashed..

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Rick Perry Death Watch.

Energy Secretary Rick Perry eyeing White House exit in November [Politico]

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Energy Secretary Rick Perry is expected to announce his resignation from the administration by the end of November, according to three people familiar with his plans.

Perry, who had been Texas' longest serving governor before joining President Donald Trump's Cabinet in 2017, has largely avoided the controversies that felled others in the administration. But his travels to Ukraine have lately embroiled him in the impeachment inquiry engulfing Trump and his inner circle, even though two of the people called the scandal unrelated to Perry's departure, which they said he has been planning for several months.

Deputy Energy Secretary Dan Brouillette is expected to replace Perry, according to three people familiar with the matter, who requested anonymity to discuss the departure before an official announcement was made.
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^^IMO, Perry accepted the Energy position thinking that he would be the oil & gas ambassador of the US, not realizing that the Energy secretary oversees the US's nuclear arsenal amongst other duties
 
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^^IMO, Perry accepted the Energy position thinking that he would be the oil & gas ambassador of the US, not realizing that the Energy secretary oversees the US's nuclear arsenal amongst other duties
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From what I've heard, he spends most of his time promoting LPG deals. The oil and gas industry are forces that put him in power and kept him in power in Texas for a decade and the oil and gas industry are the beneficiary of his government-subsidized marketing efforts at DoE.

He's survived at DoE because he's an absent administrator who lets his deputies and the permanent staff run things that he has no clue about. His degree is in animal husbandry and he knows he's in over his head.

Expect him to return to Texas and take a job in a lobbying firm, as a university administrator or for the of the conservative think tanks, like the Texas Public Policy Foundation. Having Rick Perry working at a "think tank" or in a university would be the ultimate irony.
 
It was a pretty pathetic lot to start with and the quality has continued to diminish as time has gone on.

There can be no one of real intellectual or moral stature who would even consider working for this lunatic. Only the people who have a vested personal financial interest in fucking the country over would be interviewing for any job.

I would expect Perry's post to only be filled with an acting Director. Although it would be like Trump to nominate someone directly connected to Russia's nuclear program.
 
I think where we are is, "Those who said 'No' were fired by Tweet. Those who said 'Yes' are getting subpoenas."

All the stories that are coming out about shooting people in the legs and building alligator-filled moats around the border are from "Border Wars: Inside Trump's Assault on Immigration" by Julie Hirschfeld Davis and Michael D. Shear.

I just read some excerpts from it and it's apparent that Krjistjen Njiejsjen is a major source because the book has her always saying, "No, we can't do that" and being called "honey" and "sweetheart" by the President... in short, cleaning up her terrible reputation as a cruel bureaucrat.
 
He DID pick the Inspector General of the Intelligence agencies, Michael Atkinson, who was one of the relatively few non ideological, true career professional appointments. Of course, I don't think Donald Trump is particularly happy now he made the rarest of right choices, but the American people are.
 
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