Yeah. I've been watching a lot of overseas commentary and street interviews this year, I have friends and family in Europe, and you can see the people waking up to that. They'll say "yeah, Trump is awful, but he was elected". Their view of America and the average American citizen has changed THIS YEAR.
WASHINGTON — More than 130 political appointees working in the Executive Office of the President did not have permanent security clearances as of November 2017, including the president's daughter, son-in-law and his top legal counsel, according to internal White House documents obtained by NBC News.
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They don't even know if took the money......great sworn testimony.
How could they not know?
I GET IT. It is not a good look. Since you wont bother addressing what I actually said, I will bid you adieu.WASHINGTON — More than 130 political appointees working in the Executive Office of the President did not have permanent security clearances as of November 2017, including the president's daughter, son-in-law and his top legal counsel, according to internal White House documents obtained by NBC News.
Of those appointees working with interim clearances, 47 of them are in positions that report directly to President Donald Trump. About a quarter of all political appointees in the executive office are working with some form of interim security clearance.
White House officials said Wednesday they would not comment, as is their policy, on the nature of security clearances. CNN also reported on the clearances earlier Wednesday evening. It is unclear whether some employees have had their clearance levels changed since mid-November.
Scores of top White House officials lack permanent security clearances
More than 130 White House political appointees working lacked permanent security clearances as of November 2017, including the president’s daughter and son-in-law.
Unprecedented.
From your posted NYT article:
A source briefed on the meeting said the money for Homan was placed in a bright yellow bag from CAVA, the fast-casual chain specializing in Mediterranean fare, and one of the undercover agents remarked to Homan as he made the hand off: “We both know there’s no CAVA in that bag.”
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Oh a source briefed on the meeting said so. Got it.A source briefed on the meeting said the money for Homan was placed in a bright yellow bag from CAVA, the fast-casual chain specializing in Mediterranean fare, and one of the undercover agents remarked to Homan as he made the hand off: “We both know there’s no CAVA in that bag.”
Border czar Tom Homan didn’t receive normal background check during bribery probe
President-elect Trump initially balked at submitting names of likely nominees to the FBI for background checks, a basic step intended to flag possible financial conflicts or ethical problems.
Do you think Homan took the bag with the $50K and left it in the bathroom?
You screw with Homan and starting tomorrow he has much more resources to exact karma to you.A source briefed on the meeting said the money for Homan was placed in a bright yellow bag from CAVA, the fast-casual chain specializing in Mediterranean fare, and one of the undercover agents remarked to Homan as he made the hand off: “We both know there’s no CAVA in that bag.”
Border czar Tom Homan didn’t receive normal background check during bribery probe
President-elect Trump initially balked at submitting names of likely nominees to the FBI for background checks, a basic step intended to flag possible financial conflicts or ethical problems.
Do you think Homan took the bag with the $50K and left it in the bathroom?
Trump arbitrarily cancels security clearances to get people fired.WASHINGTON — More than 130 political appointees working in the Executive Office of the President did not have permanent security clearances as of November 2017, including the president's daughter, son-in-law and his top legal counsel, according to internal White House documents obtained by NBC News.
Of those appointees working with interim clearances, 47 of them are in positions that report directly to President Donald Trump. About a quarter of all political appointees in the executive office are working with some form of interim security clearance.
White House officials said Wednesday they would not comment, as is their policy, on the nature of security clearances. CNN also reported on the clearances earlier Wednesday evening. It is unclear whether some employees have had their clearance levels changed since mid-November.
Scores of top White House officials lack permanent security clearances
More than 130 White House political appointees working lacked permanent security clearances as of November 2017, including the president’s daughter and son-in-law.
Unprecedented.
It never was established he took the bag.A source briefed on the meeting said the money for Homan was placed in a bright yellow bag from CAVA, the fast-casual chain specializing in Mediterranean fare, and one of the undercover agents remarked to Homan as he made the hand off: “We both know there’s no CAVA in that bag.”
Border czar Tom Homan didn’t receive normal background check during bribery probe
President-elect Trump initially balked at submitting names of likely nominees to the FBI for background checks, a basic step intended to flag possible financial conflicts or ethical problems.
Do you think Homan took the bag with the $50K and left it in the bathroom?
LOL Flogging this dead horse again?Trump’s team skips FBI background checks for some Cabinet picks
President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team is bypassing traditional FBI background checks for at least some of his Cabinet picks while using private companies to conduct vetting of potential candidates for administration jobs, people close to the transition planning say.
Trump and his allies believe the FBI system is slow and plagued with issues that could stymie the president-elect’s plan to quickly begin the work of implementing his agenda, people briefed on the plans said. Critics say the intrusive background checks sometimes turn up embarrassing information used to inflict political damage.
Given Don's prior experience during trump 1.0 it wasn't surprising he'd be reluctant to allow his picks to be exposed to FBI scrutiny.
Officials rejected Jared Kushner for top secret security clearance, but were overruled
Kushner's was one of at least 30 cases in which Kline overruled career security experts and approved a top-secret clearance for incoming Trump officials despite unfavorable information, the two sources said.
Officials rejected Kushner for top secret clearance, were overruled
Jared Kushner was rejected for a top-secret clearance by two career security specialists, but their supervisor overruled them and approved him, sources say.
All of which puts this in the proper perspective.
Border czar Tom Homan didn’t receive normal background check during bribery probe
In early January, several days before Donald Trump’s inauguration, a Justice Department lawyer passed an envelope across a wide desk to a top Trump transition official. Enclosed was a bombshell, typed up in a one-page summary, according to two people briefed on the meeting.
As he read the contents of the envelope, the official, Emil Bove (the guy who would later tell DoJ subordinates to ignore court orders), closed his eyes and grimaced, according to the people, who requested anonymity to discuss a sensitive case. It revealed that Tom Homan — at that time, a frequent companion of Trump’s on the campaign trail who had publicly boasted he would be joining Trump’s administration to lead his immigrant deportation strategy — was the subject of an ongoing bribery investigation. Undercover FBI agents posing as private contractors had recorded him accepting $50,000 in cash in exchange for what they believed was Homan’s vow to help get border enforcement contracts in the new Trump administration.
A small group of career lawyers at the Justice Department felt an urgency to share this sensitive information with the president-elect’s team as soon as possible, hoping to head off potential embarrassment and a security clearance problem before Trump picked his future Cabinet and top appointees.
Border czar Tom Homan didn’t receive normal background check during bribery probe
President-elect Trump initially balked at submitting names of likely nominees to the FBI for background checks, a basic step intended to flag possible financial conflicts or ethical problems.
Heck, when you pick a nominee to be AG who was investigated for sex trafficking (wait..WHAT!), and a nominee for border czar who was investigated for taking a bribe (wait...WHAT!), the last thing you want is to have those nominees go through the normal background check process.
After all, loyalists like Pam and Kash had yet to be installed in key DoJ posts. Meaning that for the folks doing a check on Homan, the tape of him taking $50K in cash was..........let's just say it was "problematic."
White House spokesperson Karoline Leavitt told reporters at a White House briefing that “Mr. Homan never took the $50,000 that you’re referring to” despite an internal DOJ document stating that he did.
"These aren't the drones you're looking for, move along," says Karoline.
Denial of inconvenient reporting is a hallmark of trumpery. The DoJ could put all the speculation to rest if they released the tape. If I were Homan and I were innocent I would ask for the tape to be released to clear my name.
Lack of hard evidence and reliance on "A source briefed on the meeting said" is a hallmark of anti-trumpery
