Posted on 04/08/2020 5:04:01 PM PDT by Kaslin
President Trump is reportedly about to clean house at the inspector general level. After defeating the Democratic Party’s shoddy impeachment push in February, it was clear that the administration needed to take a more aggressive approach in removing Obama-era inspector generals who the administration think is just acting as another arm in the deep state war against the Trump White House. They’re not wrong. Susan Crabtree at RealClearPolitics wrote that this is going to happen soon. It’s already begun, with Michael Atkinson, the inspector general for the intelligence community, being given his pink slip last Friday evening. Atkinson was a key person who set the whole Trump-Ukraine impeachment train rolling, a story that was even shoddier than the Trump-Russia collusion nonsense that engulfed the liberal media for two years. In both stories, there was little direct evidence showing that Trump did anything wrong. There was a lot of liberal hot air and temper tantrums over circumstantial evidence at best—though Democrats did honor a promise to their base: impeaching Trump. Also, this whole circus distracted the administration from the rising Wuhan coronavirus threat, but that’s a tale for another time.
There are several acting Obama IGs are still working and they may soon be hearing two words from Trump in the coming days or weeks: ‘You’re fired’ (Via RCP):
President Trump is reportedly about to clean house at the inspector general level. After defeating the Democratic Party’s shoddy impeachment push in February, it was clear that the administration needed to take a more aggressive approach in removing Obama-era inspector generals who the administration think is just acting as another arm in the deep state war against the Trump White House. They’re not wrong. Susan Crabtree at RealClearPolitics wrote that this is going to happen soon. It’s already begun, with Michael Atkinson, the inspector general for the intelligence community, being given his pink slip last Friday evening. Atkinson was a key person who set the whole Trump-Ukraine impeachment train rolling, a story that was even shoddier than the Trump-Russia collusion nonsense that engulfed the liberal media for two years. In both stories, there was little direct evidence showing that Trump did anything wrong. There was a lot of liberal hot air and temper tantrums over circumstantial evidence at best—though Democrats did honor a promise to their base: impeaching Trump. Also, this whole circus distracted the administration from the rising Wuhan coronavirus threat, but that’s a tale for another time.There are several acting Obama IGs are still working and they may soon be hearing two words from Trump in the coming days or weeks: ‘You’re fired’ (Via RCP):
Yet, while the impeachment nonsense might be part of Trump’s renewed interest in cleaning house, Crabtree noted the reported bo jangling in behalf of Department of Defense Inspector General Glenn Fine, an Obama appointee, over former Trump official Adam Lovinger as one of the main reasons why Trump is looking to get rid of these swampy creatures. She wrote that Lovinger was a former member of the National Security Council, who was removed from the administration, clipped by shoddy allegations that he mishandled classified information. He’s been on paid leave for three years, with no final report being submitted by Fine. Crabtree calls the Lovinger case the cause celebre for Trump’s inner circle regarding removings these IGs.
Of course, this should have been done sooner, but Trump had to issue executive orders on immigration, get tax cuts done, remove red tape, and get the economy restarted after years of anemic growth under Obama. He also had to get border security and the wall done, the latter of which is being done piecemeal, thanks to former Speaker Paul Ryan outright lying to Trump when the former pleaded with the president not to veto an omnibus bill. Ryan promised to get the wall funding date but decided to retire and sit on his hands for the rest of the 2018 cycle.
Trump had a lot to do; we all know this. And it doesn’t help that not many people wanted to work for the man when he won in 2016. Hence, why we had Sally Yates serving as acting attorney general, the first person to fire a deep state salvo by refusing to defend or enforce the president’s executive order on immigration that the liberal media stupidly called the “Muslim ban.” Better late than never for sure, but the damage has been done concerning enacting key parts of this president’s agenda that the American people want. These longtime public servants should elicit suspicion from everyone. The longer you work here, the greater the chance that you’re an enemy of the president. It’s about time we boot these Obamaites and get Trump’s people in there. And no, this isn’t unprecedented. As Elizabeth Vaugh noted at RedState, Reagan cleaned house, firing 13 inspector generals after he pummeled Jimmy Carter in 1980.
H/T RedState
Let’s see what could that be!
I wonder.....
Pedantic to bring it up, but Inspectors General.
Happy Easter?
Will be a welcomed change and removal of corruption imho
Good point.
The Donalds biggest mistakes are thinking that Obama people loved this country so that they would put it above anything else.
In that regard, he is similar to US Grant. Grant was one hell of a good man, so good he trusted way to many scoundrels that got into his administration.
Article says “You’re Fired”
I’d hope for “Arrest Her” or “You’re Fired” ... “You’re Call”
Grant sent many a man to his death. President Trump does all possible to keep men, women and children alive
“As Elizabeth Vaugh noted at RedState, Reagan cleaned house, firing 13 inspector generals after he pummeled Jimmy Carter in 1980.”
The deep state wasnt as murky as it is now..
The Donalds biggest mistakes are thinking that Obama people loved this country so that they would put it above anything else.
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A whole lot of people’s mistakes are believing that a legitimate POTUS can simply wave his hand and put who he wants where he wants because he wants and is not bound by the same scumbag protecting employee union rules as every other industry, federal employment rules, SES rules and laws, etc and so on.
And that in an industry that is nearly 100% DS in all middle and upper management, that there’s magic unicorns of integrity to pluck from his ass to post in places of importance.
If I ever see Ryan again I’ll punch him right in the face and take the consequences with a smile on my face.
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” It’s about time we boot these Obamaites...”
They are Obamunists, not Obamaites.
Dump ALL appointees by The Greatest Fraud Ever . Get out ! !!
4 years too late!
No, the correct plural form for Obama holdover inspector general is as**oles.
It must be against the law to be a full blown Trump supporter and a journalist. Strike 'little' replace with 'no' or leave this part of the story out.
There are approx. 2.1 million Federal Government employees.
POTUS appoints approx. 4,000.
Percentage = .0019%
I’ve posted links to the SES cadre numerous times here at FR for someone’s enlightenment. It’s bad, and an uphill battle for crying out loud!
Even though the POTUS can appoint his choices to SES vacancies, he is stymied at every turn by additional roadblocks that are built in on purpose.
I am SO over criticism of our POTUS!
Up to 10% of SES positions can be filled as political appointments rather than by career employees.[1] About half of the SES is designated “Career Reserved”, which can only be filled by career employees. The other half is designated “General”, which can be filled by either career employees or political appointments as desired by the administration. Due to the 10% limitation, most General positions are still filled by career appointees.[2]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senior_Executive_Service_(United_States)
Noted. I’m a bit long in tooth. Haven’t kept up with the linguistic drift in the past 10 years or so.
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