“””I think that the governor will just try to ride the storm out.”””
UPDATE: Northam tells state employees he won’t resign as Democratic senator breaks ranks to back him
BY PATRICK WILSON Richmond Times-Dispatch 1 hr ago (approx 8:30pm 2-8-19)
Cletus may have the best grip on the line of succession understanding. VA has off year elections with one coming up this fall.
Look for Article 5 Sec 16 VA Constitution
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3725006/posts?page=536#536
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3725006/posts?page=528#528
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3725006/posts?page=517#517
Dem Rep Points to Va. Blackface Scandals as Further Reason to Impeach Trump
BY: Jeffrey Cimmino - February 8, 2019 10:35 am
Citing Virginia race scandals, Dem vows vote to impeach Trump
By Mike Lillis - 02/08/19 08:07 AM EST
Long time til the fall 2019 for VA elections.
Besides, Orange Man’s fault. /S
The black Lt.Gov. Fairfax will be forced out by charges of rape.
The Gov. will appoint another Democrat as Lt. Gov.
I think Northam will try to survive as Gov. with the blackface and infanticide issues, but if not and he resigns, the new Lt. Gov will become Governer and can appoint another Democrat as Lt. Gov.
If this all happens the optics will look terrible for the VA Democratic party. If they are smart they will not let Northam hang on until election season.
Texas Demagogue Al Green offers a great example of the logical fallacy of "False Cause" in wanting to impeach the President for what happened in VA. He is, of course, the thing he pretends to diagnose, a racist.
Schiff Hires Ex-National Security Council Staff for Panel
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff has hired former National Security Council staffers to work for him as he launches a sweeping new investigation into President Donald Trump’s finances and foreign connections.
Feb. 7, 2019 - By MARY CLARE JALONICK, Associated Press
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“Grace worked for a bipartisan think tank, Center for a New American Security, after working for both former President Barack Obama and Trump on the National Security Council from 2016 to 2018. She focused on Asia-Pacific security issues, according to a spokesman for the group.”
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McMaster: The Ultimate Holdover
by Jed Babbin
August 7, 2017, 12:05 AM <-——NOTE DATE
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President Trump’s first national security advisor, retired Army Lt. Gen. Mike Flynn, didn’t last long enough to reform the NSC staff and rid it of the Obama loyalists. The holdovers from Rice’s staff, one source tells me, number in the dozens. Trump’s second advisor, Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster, has been there for months but hasn’t removed most of the Obama hirelings. Several dozen remain, many in positions of significant responsibility.
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There are four people in positions of responsibility in the NSC who have been identified by a source as people who had been “direct reports” to ***Rhodes*** — i.e., who worked under his direct supervision — who McMaster has protected and retained. They are: ***Abigail Grace (Special Assistant)***, Fernando Cutz (NSC Director for South America), Andrea Hall (NSC Senior Director for WMD, Terrorism & Threat Reduction), and Merry Lin (Director for Global and Asia Economics).
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https://spectator.org/mcmaster-the-ultimate-holdover/