I’m sure she could have gotten this same job nine months ago. Something obviously changed since she got to the Associate AG post.
umm, no, this Walmart job only opened recently, the previous occupant retired in Jan. 2018.
But I would assume anyone going through the Senate confirmation process and accepting the #3 position in DOJ expected at the time to serve a lot more than 9 months. Most of them do.
She must have gotten pretty sick of the political situation, and/or she didn’t want to stay around for what comes next.
Read the excerpt. The job wasn’t open until the end of January. They parked her back at DOJ until the retirement came through.
If DOJ No. 2 (Rosenstein) departs, Ms. Brand would be the logical choice to move into the position and to take over supervising the Mueller investigation. It will be a thankless, distasteful job no matter how well she did it.
By going to WalMart, she gets:
- very significant pay raise
- work that is fairly easy to do.
- corporate travel perks
- a nice big house in a nice gated neighborhood
- private schools and lots of outdoor activities for her boys
- a real vacation in the summer
- warm weather
- away from DC politics
It probably was not a hard choice.