Mina Chang is emblematic of the kinds of people who work for Trump. Her only failing is she got caught.
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Gone With The Wind…
Trump Organization ordered to pay $290,000 after losing battle against Scottish wind farm
Source: Washington Post
The Trump Organization has agreed to pay $290,000 to the Scottish government, ending a multiyear legal battle in which Donald Trump tried and failed to block an offshore wind farm from being built in view of one of his Scottish golf courses. The agreement to pay the government’s legal fees ends the company’s bitter public dispute with the Scottish government. Over the years, Trump repeatedly criticized the former Scottish first minister Alex Salmond about the wind farm and warned that it would cause “almost total destruction” of the country’s tourism industry.
A Scottish government spokesman said that the settlement — first reported by the Scotsman newspaper — removed the need for an independent auditor to determine expenses to be paid by the Trump Organization. “Expenses amounting to ($290,000) will now be paid to Scottish Ministers by the Petitioners,” the spokesman said in a statement. The Trump Organization did not respond to a request for comment. President Trump has a long-standing disdain for wind power that has carried over into his political speeches. Trump has said windmills cause cancer, kill birds and prevent people from watching television when the wind’s not blowing.
The 11-turbine wind farm in Aberdeen Bay began operating last summer and is clearly visible from the fairways and greens of the Trump International Golf Links, Scotland, outside the northeastern city of Aberdeen. During the planning process for the wind farm, the Trump Organization sued the Scottish government to block it. Trump was angry at what he called a “monstrous” project and said the turbines would destroy the view of “perhaps the greatest golf course anywhere in the world.”
Trump wrote in a 2013 op-ed in the Scottish Mail on Sunday that he had instructed his lawyers to launch an “all-out challenge” to “Mad Alex,” as he called Salmond, to fight the wind farm in the country where Trump’s mother was born. “I am going to fight him for as long as it takes — to hell if I have to — and spend as much as it takes to block this useless and grotesque blot on our heritage,” he wrote. Judges on the U.K. Supreme Court unanimously rejected Trump’s legal challenge in 2015. In February, the Trump Organization was ordered to pay the Scottish government’s legal bills. But the issue was not resolved for several months because the Scottish government said that the Trump Organization had not agreed to an amount.
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Chang is at least a 9, which means Pompeo probably is her “mentor”.
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Just on a quick read of the NBC article and with a little bit of googling, it’s amazing she got this far. Seems like everything in her bio was a lie. And sloppy ones, too, like the “graduate of the Army War College seminar”…
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Take a wild guess at what her real talents are, and with whom she shares them.
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I’m sure they are.
I once worked for a clown that attended one of those Harvard four day seminars. He had Harvard shit all over his office so that we would think he was “Harvard.” What we did think was “Asshole.”
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Let’s check out the Venn Diagram on those…
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C. They hired her anyway.
Qualifications are elitist, don’t’cha know…
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I’m sure she’s provided the exact services they hired her for.
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Nothing one could put on a resume either.
Snagged it before it inevitably disappears later… Not sure there’s an actual fact in her whole bio.
Ms. Mina Chang serves as the Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Bureau of Conflict and Stabilization Operations (CSO).
Prior to joining the Bureau, DAS Chang served as the Chief Executive Officer of an INGO. Applying insights gleaned from a broad range of civilian and military data sets, data analytics, social science and geo-spatial intelligence capabilities to identify and assist vulnerable communities, the organization worked to isolate root drivers of instability, and direct development initiatives to address critical vulnerabilities that non-state actors exploit to further their agenda.
She has extensive on the ground experience in conflict areas such as in Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, Nigeria, and the Philippines. She has been an advocate for proactive stabilization as a strategic tool of foreign engagement and an investment in a stronger America abroad.
Mina is an alumna of the Harvard Business School, a graduate of the United States Army War College National Security Seminar, a Harvard John F. Kennedy Senior Executive in National and International Security and a former International Security Fellow at New America. Ms. Chang has been published in CNN, Fortune, Foreign Policy Journal, Forbes, Defense One and The Hill, writing on issues of policy, humanitarian aid, development, the application of emerging technologies and data science capabilities by the sector and its role in the context of national security and global stability. She has addressed the Republican and Democratic National Conventions, as well as the United Nations, and served as a Fellow with the Center for the Study of Civil-Military Operations at United States Military Academy at West Point, assisting in the development of academic programs tied to humanitarian and disaster response.
Served as Civil-Military UN-CMCoord Advisor contributing to the current Common Humanitarian Civil-Military Coordination Standards. Appointed by the United Nations to serve on the Expert Panel for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in Humanitarian Response.
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That shit is THICK.
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A fake TIME magazine cover??! That takes some, er, cojones! And she thought she wasn’t going to get caught? Oy vey…
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Also referring to @george_spiggott’s statement below:
when I said about not being able to these things on a resume. I guess when those skills are all you’ve got, one has no choice but to exaggerate the resume with some nebulous stuff that no one will ferret out.
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What makes this even worse is folks who donate to worthy well regarded NGO’s like Doctors Without Borders might have their fundraising negatively impacted because this woman decided to engage in a fraudulent act.
Thankfully Charity navigator does a good job screening them out.
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Oh, I know what y’all were referring to, I just chose to be the adult in the room and pretend not to hear it.
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Where where does he find these people? Is there anyone he appointed who isn’t a liar, crook or wife beater?
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George Soros keeps planting them in his administration, sneakily trying to undermine him.
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Team Trump is getting desperate to campaign on something that will resonate with the middle class;
Their solution:
President Trump’s economic advisers are exploring whether the president should campaign for reelection proposing a 15 percent tax rate for the American middle class, with some seeing the idea as a simple way of selling Republicans’ economic agenda as not merely beneficial to the rich, according to multiple people involved in the White House’s internal deliberations over “tax cut 2.0.”
If he gets reelected, it has zero chance of passing Congress without offsets.
Story at the WP.
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