Posted on 04/03/2020 7:48:54 PM PDT by bitt
President Donald Trump has fired the intelligence community’s chief watchdog, Michael Atkinson, who was the first to sound the alarm to Congress last September about an “urgent” complaint he’d received from an intelligence official involving Trump’s communications with Ukraine’s president.
Trump formally notified the Senate and House intelligence committees of his intention to fire Atkinson and remove him from his duties, to take effect 30 days from Friday, according to two congressional officials and a copy of the letter obtained by POLITICO dated April 3.
“This is to advise that I am exercising my power as President to remove from office the Inspector General of the Intelligence Community, effective 30 days from today,” Trump wrote.
Trump said in the letter that he “no longer” has the fullest confidence in Atkinson. “As is the case with regard to other positions where I, as president, have the power of appointment, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, it is vital that I have the fullest confidence in the appointees serving as Inspectors General,” he wrote. “That is no longer the case with regard to this Inspector General.”
Trump added that he would be submitting a new nominee for the position to the Senate “at a later date.”
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Yay!!
Some other leftist agency....like the media...will likely hire this stooge.
Why not make it immediately?
ALL anonymously! They were going to impeach POTUS with an anonymous witness. SICK! I hope what held up this firing was the Durham investigation and that this sorry@ss is going to be indicted.
Now THAT is a picture of a piece of shit in movement!
I get yelled at for posting in breaking news, lol...
SOP is to escort them out the building, cancel all passes and clearances and "You can pick up the box of your stuff at the front receptionist desk."
Here is your final check.
CNN is probably already offering him a job.
He’s the swamp creature that changed the rules to allow hearsay to be used in an accusation.
Good riddance.
Meeting records brought Nixon down and saved Trump
Good.
If you lose confidence in a manager, its over.
Best!
President!
Ever!!!!
He’ll be a talking head on CNN or MSNBC within a week after he leaves his post.
“...to take effect 30 days from Friday...”
???
Seriously — 30 days? Secret Service should’ve walked his ass out the door to his car before PDJT made the statement. Imagine how much damage he can do in 30 days.
nice - Trump plays his card on fires this Deep State scumbag on Friday nite.
its forces the very corrupt media who is driving this chinese virus panic to cover this story and not the virus...
Good.
Trump’s dead of night decision to fire ICIG Michael Atkinson is another blatant attempt to gut the independence of the Intelligence Community and retaliate against those who dare to expose presidential wrongdoing.
It puts our country and national security at even greater risk. pic.twitter.com/Pnm7chdIkl— Adam Schiff (@RepAdamSchiff) April 4, 2020
This is the time to do it and hopefully, much more, most everybody is focused on the virus.
Unsurprisingly, Tom Cotton never followed up on his stern letter to Atkinson. The do-nothing GOP Senate provided exactly ZERO oversight of the ICIG. POTUS was and is riding solo agianst the Deep State coup.
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