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U.S. Ambassador, Obama Holdover, Signals Disdain for Representing Trump
Free Beacon ^ | 5/22/17 | Kredo

Posted on 05/21/2017 6:20:06 AM PDT by pabianice

The U.S. ambassador to Qatar, an Obama administration holdover whose family donated hundreds of thousands to the Obama campaign, signaled her distaste for working under President Donald Trump, raising questions about her commitment to the new administration.

Dana Shell Smith, the U.S. ambassador for Qatar who was appointed by former President Barack Obama, took to Twitter last week to express her frustration at Trump's administration, which has been battling negative headlines over a plethora of foreign and domestic issues.

"The problem is that the Obama administration left holdovers all over the government, so you get rid of one Obama loyalist and the replacement is another Obama loyalist," said one national security insider close to the Trump administration.

"That's already happened multiple times especially with Middle East appointments," the source said, referring to Lempert and Bauman.

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Conspiracy; Society
KEYWORDS: danashellsmith; deepstate; qatar; qatarambassador; usambassador
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To: pabianice

Fake News.

If you want to tell your boss you hate him and want to quit,
why are you there?

This is BS.


21 posted on 05/21/2017 7:40:24 AM PDT by eyedigress ((Old storm chaser from the west))
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To: pabianice

Notice the issue is representing Trump but ok to represent Zero.

The loyalty should be to our constitution and nation.


22 posted on 05/21/2017 7:40:24 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: Jumper

Nobody does this. I was at DIA for months last year before the election and those people were just glad to be there.

They couldn’t do squat compared to my group.


23 posted on 05/21/2017 7:44:05 AM PDT by eyedigress ((Old storm chaser from the west))
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To: pabianice

Get rid of all of them. Make them submit a letter of justification as to why they should keep their positions..


24 posted on 05/21/2017 7:51:20 AM PDT by richardtavor
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To: pabianice

Old NYTimes article breathlessly attacking Trump for getting rid of 0bama ambassadors.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/05/us/politics/trump-ambassadors.html?_r=0


25 posted on 05/21/2017 7:53:04 AM PDT by Drango (A liberal's compassion is limited only by the size of someone else's wallet.)
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To: Pearls Before Swine

“Because there are so many of them; it takes time to find them and replace them.”

Do ya think those places that keep track of who supports who are also infiltrated by Obummerites who are busy changing records re donations etc. to make it more difficult to find the subversives ??


26 posted on 05/21/2017 7:59:15 AM PDT by litehaus (A memory toooo long.............)
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To: pabianice

Why is she still there?


27 posted on 05/21/2017 8:17:25 AM PDT by jch10 (Don't go along to get along!)
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To: pabianice

Any number of us are retired, at least as qualified as those monied contributors sent by obungo, willing and able to go. There is no shortage of qualified candidates.

This is one of Trumps most foolish traits, misplaced trust and inaction on it.


28 posted on 05/21/2017 8:18:13 AM PDT by Sequoyah101 (It feels like we have exchanged our dreams for survival. We just have a few days that don't suck.)
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To: pabianice

She then ought to resign


29 posted on 05/21/2017 8:20:14 AM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: alloysteel
call the ambassador home...

If there isn't a whole lot of draining of the swamp, including taking leaders and other traitors out in handcuffs, the administration is doomed. The only thing that will shut up the press is if their sources end up in jail.

30 posted on 05/21/2017 8:29:03 AM PDT by grania (only a pawn in their game)
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To: clintonh8r

Exactly! It makes you wonder.


31 posted on 05/21/2017 8:29:22 AM PDT by b4its2late (A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
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To: Dahoser
The career Foreign Service is beyond his reach

Does anything stop this administration from giving them seriously unpleasant assignments?

32 posted on 05/21/2017 8:30:48 AM PDT by grania (only a pawn in their game)
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To: Dahoser

But they can be reassigned. They serve as ambassadors to a particular country at the pleasure of the president.


33 posted on 05/21/2017 8:47:59 AM PDT by Maine Mariner
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To: Pearls Before Swine

I could pick two dozen folks from my high school class and have them in place in a week. Trump ought to get with it !


34 posted on 05/21/2017 9:29:28 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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