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D.C. National Guard Chief Fired Days Before Trump Inauguration: "The Timing Is Extremely Unusual"
Zero Hedge ^
| 1-13-2017
| Tyler Durden
Posted on 01/13/2017 1:57:31 PM PST by blam
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To: Bryher1
If Trump could fire him BEFORE becoming president, why can’t he also fire Brennan, Comey, Lynch...Whoever he wants in the government right now????
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posted on
01/13/2017 2:21:30 PM PST
by
JBW1949
(I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
To: Churchillspirit
Thank you VERY much ! :-)
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posted on
01/13/2017 2:22:39 PM PST
by
tomkat
To: PJammers
"Trump chose to accept his resignation."
Where did you get that? In the original story from the WP (which is extensively quoted in this article), there is no mention of a voluntary resignation, simply that he was notified of his termination effective 1/2/02017.
The general is portrayed as being befuddled by the termination, which is not described as automatic or routine. Either the article is deliberately omitting key facts or . . . ?
To: blam
Decapitate the D.C. Guard at the moment Trump is inaugurated to open the pathways for the protesters and annarchists.
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posted on
01/13/2017 2:26:08 PM PST
by
Redleg Duke
(Final countdown to the liberals' Trumpaccolips! Yee Haw!)
To: silverleaf
The head of the National Guard in the District of Colombia is a presidential appointee.
He must be reappointed every four or eight years.
Trump has chosen not to reappoint him.
ZeroNutjob had it right. The timing is extremely unusual in that it only happens once every four or eight years.
This is sensationalist to the max.
It’s a nothing-burger.
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posted on
01/13/2017 2:26:15 PM PST
by
DoughtyOne
(John McStain. The friend of those who hate our nation.)
To: JBW1949
"This termination could not come from PE Trump...He, even though elected, is STILL private citizen Trump...This order had to come from Obama admin...Another attempt to make Trump look bad and maybe cause more disturbances..."
That is my view, but on the other thread, lots of people were calling this a brilliant move by Trump, part of "draining the swamp."
To: blam
Trump might be expecting to have to deploy the Guard to protect gov’t facilities, and wants someone he can trust.
Someone who’s already past retirement age doesn’t have a career to harm.
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posted on
01/13/2017 2:27:18 PM PST
by
PLMerite
(Lord, let me die fighting lions. Amen.)
To: Louis Foxwell
Consider the possibility that there is a coup in the works and Mattis knows this guy plays for the other team...
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posted on
01/13/2017 2:27:38 PM PST
by
Jim Noble
(Die Gedanken sind Frei)
To: Louis Foxwell
This is clearly an act of sabotage by Obama. Trump can reappoint him immediately. It certainly looks that way, doesn't it.
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posted on
01/13/2017 2:30:42 PM PST
by
DJ MacWoW
(The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
To: DoughtyOne
"This is sensationalist to the max." I think you're right. His appointed term is expiring.
Not being re-appointed is not a firing.
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posted on
01/13/2017 2:35:28 PM PST
by
blam
For what it’s worth Dept.........
snip
From the Washington Post article
.....
As is customary, Schwartz, like other presidential appointees, submitted a letter of
resignation to give the new administration a clean start. He had done so before, but
the Obama administration twice declined to accept.
The Trump transition team made the decision to accept Schwartzs resignation,
according to a military official with knowledge of the situation.
end snip
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posted on
01/13/2017 2:49:49 PM PST
by
deport
To: RetiredTexasVet
It’s the democrats questioning the move not republicans.
Something more is up.
To: Jim Noble
We may never know.
If a coup there will be a million dead, starting with elite democrats, all of them.
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posted on
01/13/2017 2:57:17 PM PST
by
Louis Foxwell
(The Left has the temperament of a squealing pig.)
To: Responsibility2nd
Simple fix. Immediately upon taking the oath, he signs Trump Executive Order 001, reinstating the general effective 20 Jan 2017, 12:02. All fixed.
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posted on
01/13/2017 3:12:37 PM PST
by
Wonder Warthog
(The Hog of Steel and NRA Life Member)
To: Roman_War_Criminal
“Something more is up”
I agree.
When someone who commands troops in the capital city (especially troops from a city where Hillary got 95% of the vote) needs to be relieved in the first 30 seconds of the new Administration, you have to wonder.
This is very worrying. Hope Mattis is lining up loyal commanders right now.
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posted on
01/13/2017 3:15:51 PM PST
by
Jim Noble
(Die Gedanken sind Frei)
To: Wonder Warthog
“Simple fix. Immediately upon taking the oath, he signs Trump Executive Order 001, reinstating the general effective 20 Jan 2017, 12:02. All fixed.”
Are you sure this guy is incapable of participating in a coup attempt? I would not be so fast to ask for him back. This happened for a reason.
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posted on
01/13/2017 3:19:48 PM PST
by
Jim Noble
(Die Gedanken sind Frei)
To: Jim Noble
As someone on another thread noted...this is the military...he has a fully briefed 2nd in command ready and waiting on any eventuality.
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posted on
01/13/2017 4:01:36 PM PST
by
spokeshave
(In the Thatch Weave,..Trump's Wing Man is Truth.)
To: deport
"As is customary, Schwartz, like other presidential appointees, submitted a letter of resignation to give the new administration a clean start. He had done so before, but the Obama administration twice declined to accept. The Trump transition team made the decision to accept Schwartzs resignation"
I could be wrong, but I don't think that information was included in the original version of the WP article. (The date stamp on the current version of the WP article is AFTER I made my comments on the original story.) If that information was there in the original story, I missed it. Even now, it is buried at the bottom of the story.
To: Steve_Seattle
I could be wrong, but I don’t think that information was
included in the original version of the WP article.
************
I have no idea if it was included or not, but I do remember reading it as some point.
But like you it may have been an addition to the first published article.
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posted on
01/13/2017 4:12:50 PM PST
by
deport
To: Steve_Seattle
The troops of the DC National Guard are drawn from the population of a city that gave Hillary Clinton 95% of the vote.
Having them on the streets and armed on January 20, commanded by a man who, to say the least, does not have the confidence of the Trump team, worries me greatly.
I hope that the U.S. Marine Corps takes over security at 12:01 pm next Friday.
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posted on
01/13/2017 4:17:42 PM PST
by
Jim Noble
(Die Gedanken sind Frei)
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