White House Survivor

Craig4 said:
Seems obvious to me. The replacement is Lindsey Graham.
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Well, Lindsey's obviously campaigning for the job but Donnie likes to hang supplicants out to dry. Remember Big Chris Christie? Rudy Giuliani? They both thought they had big positions in their future.
 
Foolmewunz said:
And at least he's not a deplorable. He's only got his Despicable Third Class badge; needs a couple of points to get up to Apprentice Deplorable. Maybe we should publish some more of his Homeland Security record?
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Yea he is an honest scumbag who supports children's concentration camps but is likely not corrupt in the sense of illegally profiting from his position.

We have gotten a pretty weak definition of not deplorable.
 
Not a White House person, but another relatively important resignation: Seth Frotman, Student Load Ombudsman, CFPB. On the grounds of "the White House’s open hostility toward protecting the nation’s millions of student loan borrowers."

Seth Frotman will be stepping down as student loan ombudsman at the end of the week, according to his resignation letter. He held that position since 2016, but has been with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

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The office was at the center of the lawsuits against for-profit institutions like Corinthian Colleges and is currently heading up a lawsuit between the CFPB and Navient, one of the nation’s largest student lenders. The Navient lawsuit has been mired in bureaucratic red tape as the Department of Education, headed by Betsy DeVos, has been unwilling to help the CFPB with their lawsuit. Since its creation, the student loan office has returned $750m to harmed borrowers.
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news...-loan-ombudsman-resigns-white-house-hostility
 
The Great Zaganza said:
Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III is a goner, sooner rather than later.

The outcries about how devastating it would be if he got fired only makes people stop and think: wait a moment - it won't be that bad.
The only reason why it hasn't happened yet is because Trump hasn't lined up a sufficiently pliable and suicidal replacement.
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Sessions is not a good AG. He's racist, and his drug polices are foolish. But, at this point he seems to be willing to protect the Mueller investigation.

Should Trump fire him, he will likely replace him with someone who is just as bad (in terms of being racist/unqualified) but with the side effect that the new person would kill the Mueller Investigation.

So the options are:
- Sessions: Incompetent racist who is allowing Trump's crimes to be investigated
- New AG: incompetent racist who is going to allow Trump free reign to break laws
 
Segnosaur said:
Sessions is not a good AG. He's racist, and his drug polices are foolish. But, at this point he seems to be willing to protect the Mueller investigation.

Should Trump fire him, he will likely replace him with someone who is just as bad (in terms of being racist/unqualified) but with the side effect that the new person would kill the Mueller Investigation.

So the options are:
- Sessions: Incompetent racist who is allowing Trump's crimes to be investigated
- New AG: incompetent racist who is going to allow Trump free reign to break laws
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Except the new AG has to be confirmed. That could be tough with just over two months before the midterm. With Sessions fired, Rosenstein would be in charge in the interim. Trump isn't going to want that, so he'd have to fire Rosenstein too. That didn't work out well for Nixon.
 
Trebuchet said:
Sessions is not a good AG. He's racist, and his drug polices are foolish. But, at this point he seems to be willing to protect the Mueller investigation.
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Except the new AG has to be confirmed. That could be tough with just over two months before the midterm. With Sessions fired, Rosenstein would be in charge in the interim. Trump isn't going to want that, so he'd have to fire Rosenstein too. That didn't work out well for Nixon.
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There's a difference...

The political right had more integrity back then. Congress-critters were a little less extremist/partisan, and former supporters/voters were willing to turn their backs on Nixon when watergate came out. Now, Trump has children locked in cages and he still enjoys ~40% support. And while occasionally a republican politician will speak out against Trump, when it comes down it, they will likely fall in line.

If Trump were to fire Sessions (and probably Rosenstien), they may complain (with more empty rhetoric in public, and in private about how it hurts their midterm chance) but I wouldn't be surprised to see republican senators fast track a replacement, lest the Democrats somehow mange to take the Senate in the midterms and they demand an actual competent replacement.
 
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