White House Survivor

Trebuchet said:
Had to Google that. It's hard to keep up when your boss has the attention span of a two-year-old.

She's never been a great fit for this admin anyhow, being brown, female, and an anchor baby.
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You forgot she's intelligent.
 
Not exactly firing, but Trump pushed his VA nominee under the bus with his "suggestion" that Jackson should withdraw.
 
Is there some sort of competition over who can be the most corrupt?

“We had a hierarchy in my office in Congress,” Mr. Mulvaney, a former Republican lawmaker from South Carolina, told 1,300 bankers and lobbyists at an American Bankers Association conference in Washington. “If you’re a lobbyist who never gave us money, I didn’t talk to you. If you’re a lobbyist who gave us money, I might talk to you.”

Mr. Mulvaney, who also runs the White House budget office, is a longtime critic of the Obama-era consumer bureau, including while serving in Congress. He was tapped by President Trump in November to temporarily run the bureau, in part because of his promise to sharply curtail its enforcement actions.

Since then, he has frozen all new investigations and slowed down existing inquiries by requiring career employees to produce detailed justifications for their work and by sharply restricting the bureau’s access to bank data, arguing that its investigations created unnecessary online security risks. And he has scaled back the agency’s efforts to go after payday lenders, auto lenders and other financial services companies accused of preying on vulnerable consumers.
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dudalb said:
Not exactly firing, but Trump pushed his VA nominee under the bus with his "suggestion" that Jackson should withdraw.
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Ronny Jackson should NEVER EVER been nominated for that job. He was grotesquely unqualified. A reasonable vetting would have made that clear. But Trump 'liked' Jackson and that was enough for Trump. Now Jackson has been needlessly run over by Congress and the press. He should have told Trump 'no', but ego and ambition probably got the best of him.

I have to wonder who the next unqualified stiff Trump rolls out?
 
Jackson, as WH physician, was willing to perpetuate the ridiculous lie that Trump is 6'3" and weighs only 230 pounds. I'm 5'8", 220 lb, and don't look as fat as Trump.
 
Trebuchet said:
Jackson, as WH physician, was willing to perpetuate the ridiculous lie that Trump is 6'3" and weighs only 230 pounds. I'm 5'8", 220 lb, and don't look as fat as Trump.
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Maybe the fat cells in his body have some dort of self-awareness and spread out, trying to keep as far away from the core of Trump as possible, only being prevented from further expansion by his skin?
 
Trebuchet said:
Jackson, as WH physician, was willing to perpetuate the ridiculous lie that Trump is 6'3" and weighs only 230 pounds. I'm 5'8", 220 lb, and don't look as fat as Trump.
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I'm 6'4" and don't look at all overweight and he's somehow within 10lbs of my weight? I find that hard to believe.

Then again, he could just literally be full of hot air.
 
acbytesla said:
Ronny Jackson should NEVER EVER been nominated for that job. He was grotesquely unqualified. A reasonable vetting would have made that clear. But Trump 'liked' Jackson and that was enough for Trump. Now Jackson has been needlessly run over by Congress and the press. He should have told Trump 'no', but ego and ambition probably got the best of him.

I have to wonder who the next unqualified stiff Trump rolls out?
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And it's getting worse. As Trump becomes more and more imbattled, more and more will he make appontments based sheerly on personal loyalty.
There is a long history of authoritarians doing this. It has never ended well for them.
 
Trebuchet said:
Jackson has withdrawn.
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Those evil Obstructionist Dems destroying the life and reputation of one of America's greatest heroes - and completely destroying the opportunity for him to do great work at the VA in the process. Why do they hate the military so much - SAD !
 
Stacko said:
I don't think Scott Pruitt is going to last long after this hearing.
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Saving people a click:

Pruitt now admits in Congressional testimony that he gave his chief of staff authority to give large raises for two of his deputies, over the objections of the White House.

He told Fox News earlier this month he "did not" approve the raises and didn't know who did it.

Sadly, at this point I don't think that's enough to get him out. I guess we'll see.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...-pruitts-condo-rental/?utm_term=.0f40e57b11b3

Even as President Trump repeatedly expressed his support for Pruitt in public, top White House aides began to escalate their disapproval, suggesting the administrator has mischaracterized his role in boosting the salaries of two employees. On Thursday evening, three administration officials confirmed that Pruitt endorsed the idea last month of giving substantial raises to senior counsel Sarah Greenwalt and scheduling and advance director Millan Hupp — although he did not carry out the pay raise himself.

And Pruitt’s decision to ignore White House Chief of Staff John F. Kelly’s warnings to be more cautious about giving public interviews only complicated his standing with many of Trump’s key aides.
 
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