President Donald Trump has nominated a replacement for Health and Human Services acting inspector general Christi Grimm after she wrote a report laying out how his administration had bungled its response to the COVID-19 outbreak.
He’s such a small man.
Fat Nixon can’t handle the truth. Update at 11:00 PM. Nah, forget it, nothing new to report… sigh
Looks like a twofer for Agent Orange. He gets to fire a critic and appoint a lackey to an inspector general position.
As usual
This shows a weakness in the system if someone can hire/fire those who are supposed to be evaluating what they are doing.
Well, today does end in “y,” which explains the firing.
Anyone know if the Screaming Yam is doing another presser anytime soon?
Why would Fatso want to keep an independent watchdog, one who worked in the dubya administration BTW, on his team to remind him of his incompetence and embarrassed him.
Her report, released last month and based on extensive interviews with hospitals around the country, identified critical shortages of supplies, revealing that hundreds of medical centers were struggling to obtain test kits, protective gear for staff members and ventilators. Mr. Trump was embarrassed by the report at a time he was already under fire for playing down the threat of the virus and not acting quickly enough to ramp up testing and provide equipment to doctors and nurses.
Ms. Grimm is not a political appointee but a career official who began working in the inspector general office late in President Bill Clinton’s administration and served under President George W. Bush as well as Mr. Obama. She took over the office in an acting capacity when the previous inspector general stepped down.
Replaced with a sunday evening virtual town hall, run by faux, of course.
Why even have IGs?
…and all the REPUBLICANS who are trying to make us believe they GIVE a sht are going to collectively shrug? VOTE THEM OUT.
The fact Trump is still in office and not literally in prison is stark proof that our government and its checks and balances simply doesn’t work. If someone like Trump is allowed to stay in office, then anyone can and any crime will be tolerated. Trump is as much a symptom as a cause.
There would be no reason to fire all of these watchdogs and whistleblowers if he had even the slightest intention of doing the right things legally and ethically.
Firing every single Inspector General with a shred of integrity is, in reality, a damning confession. Not that any Republicans are listening.
He’s also in melt down.
Trump is a symptom of a system designed to legally protect and nurture rich white men and keep them in power, regardless of their malfeasance, as are these two.
So is Grimm fired as in out o government service? If so, she is free to do as many interviews as she cares to do and nothing the WH can do about it. This is why I suspected she has just been removed from her position and not fired. The WH has seemed to have learned this lesson.
His hands, his pig eyes, his capacity for reasoning and his … , anyway.
I hear ya, sister. Doesn’t even phase me anymore when he fires someone to be replaced by some bouncer down at the local gym. Making noise gives him a warm feeling so he makes noise. Same ol, same ol.
Please never use the word man when referring to sissy boy Trump.
He may be male but we have not seen his birth certificate.
We can not be sure he has a gender.
Trump is increasingly having trouble sweeping his own massive failures under the rug as well as the systemic failure looming before all of us. He makes Calvin Coolidge look good.
Gail Tverberg in her blog recently wrote:
Economies won’t be able to recover after shutdowns. We live in a world with a self-organizing economy, made up of components such as businesses, customers, governments and interest rates. Our basic problem is a finite world problem. World population has outgrown its resource base.
We should be thinking about the consequences for the developing world as well. And we should be looking to some sort of Great Reset. Instead, most of America, which is losing about 80 Americans an hour to covid-19, is focused on Joe Biden’s sex scandal, something that won’t even make to the footnote section of a history of the world 400 years from now.