Trump is removing US Secret Service director

CNN ^ | 04/08/2019 | Jake Tapper, Evan Perez and Betsy Klein

[GIdget2004]

United States Secret Service director Randolph "Tex" Alles is being removed from his position, multiple administration officials tell CNN.

President Donald Trump instructed his acting chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney, to fire Alles. Alles remains in his position as of now but has been asked to leave.

The Secret Service director reports directly to the Secretary of Homeland Security, Kirstjen Nielsen, who resigned on Sunday amid growing pressure from the President. The director oversees the Secret Service's work on both protection and investigations.

"There is a near-systematic purge happening at the nation's second-largest national security agency," this official says.

United States Citizenship and Immigration Services director Francis Cissna and Office of the General Counsel's John Mitnick are expected to be gone soon, and the White House is eyeing others to be removed.

The President in recent weeks empowered Stephen Miller to lead the administration's border policies "and he's executing his plan" with what amounts to a wholesale decapitation or the Department of Homeland Security leadership, the official says.

[JonPreston]

Good. Get out the broom, Donald!

[boycott]

If Trump wants him gone, I want him gone.

[SERKIT]

“As the World Turns”?

[cuban leaf]

Looks like that Mueller thing was tying Trump’s hands. There seems to be a lot going on since the summary was released.

[Notthereyet]

It’s about time they eliminated those Fifth Columns!

[Reno89519]

Just read this a moment ago. About time to get some fresh faces leading these departments and agencies. Hopefully the replacement is a reliable PRO-Trump director.

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

The Scaramucci Model

[Lurkinanloomin]

Long overdue, the purge should have happened on 1/21/2017

[Jane Long]

Good riddance!

[DainBramage]

After secret service let a Chinese spy into Maralago with 4 phones and some malware I’m suprised he wasn’t fired overnight.

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

See my #8, this thread.

[Jane Long]

Yeppers.

[Walrus]

Drain.The.Swamp.

[Jane Long]

Amen to that.

[lodi90]

The President in recent weeks empowered Stephen Miller to lead the administration’s border policies “and he’s executing his plan” with what amounts to a wholesale decapitation or the Department of Homeland Security leadership, the official says.

---

Great news. Clean it out. Let’s hope this is the beginning of POTUS leaning on MAGA staff who send the swampers packing.

[grania]

That woman who got past security at Mer-a-Lago was stopped by a receptionist. Protests are allowed to go on in front of Trump properties. Invaders who are gang members roam free. It's reached a point where I assume that President Trump must have private security to watch over his security.

This is long overdue.

[Fast Moving Angel]

It’s about time they eliminated those Fifth Columns!

Agreed. I think that was Trump's biggest mistake -- not firing anyone, still employed in positions such as this, who were ever connected in any way with the previous administration (or perhaps others on a case-by-case basis). He should have cleaned house early on.

[bitt]

yow!

[Red Badger]

The plug has been pulled........................