The essence of Trumpery.

[berg80]

Why Is Trump’s Inspector General Purge Not a National Scandal?

Why Is Trump’s Inspector General Purge Not a National Scandal?

The removal of a couple of inspectors general for transparently—and in one case, admittedly—self-interested reasons no longer generates outrage.

www.lawfareblog.com

"If, three years ago, President Trump had removed two inspectors general from their posts within a week of each other for overtly self-interested reasons—as he has done over the past few days—it would have been a big scandal. Presidents don’t just fire inspectors general for doing their jobs, after all. And presidents who agree to have an oversight board composed of inspectors general don’t typically sack one of them to prevent him from leading the board’s monitoring of trillions of dollars of congressionally appropriated money.

Yet last week, the president announced the firing of Intelligence Community Inspector General Michael Atkinson for overtly retaliatory reasons. Atkinson had been the inspector general who notified Congress, as he was legally bound to do, of a whistleblower complaint that raised a matter of “urgent concern”—the event triggered the Ukraine scandal and the president’s resulting impeachment.

Trump, in explaining Atkinson’s removal, made no secret that it came in response to Atkinson’s having gotten Trump in trouble."
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There were actually some rumblings among a few Senators about this.

Bipartisan group of senators demands explanation from Trump on IG firing

Chuck Grassley leads bipartisan group of senators demanding Trump explain IG's firing

They say in a letter Trump "appears to have circumvented" Congress in his actions.

www.axios.com

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But this admin is a scandal machine. As soon as information about one becomes public it is replaced with another. Trump's continuous failures in dealing with COVID has been a non-stop series of scandals one after the other. They happen too quickly for any one to be thoroughly investigated.

 

[berg80]

Fauci is scheduled to testify in front of the Senate this week.

Now the Liar-in-Chief has had to walk back the lie the admin told saying Fauci couldn't testify in front of the House because he didn't have the time.

The Orange Buffoon admitted the reason he wouldn't let Tony testify is because, in Baby Donald's words, "the House is full of Trump haters."

Which means he blocked the legal request for testimony out of petty petulance................thinking again about himself before the country.

 

[berg80]

"This spring, as the United States faced a critical shortage of masks, gloves and other protective equipment to battle the coronavirus pandemic, a South Carolina physician reached out to the Federal Emergency Management Agency with an offer of help.
Dr. Jeffrey Hendricks had longtime manufacturing contacts in China and a line on millions of masks from established suppliers. Instead of encountering seasoned FEMA procurement officials, his information was diverted to a team of roughly a dozen young volunteers, recruited by the president’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, and overseen by a former assistant to Mr. Kushner’s wife, Ivanka Trump.
The volunteers, foot soldiers in the Trump administration’s new supply-chain task force, had little to no experience with government procurement procedures or medical equipment. But as part of Mr. Kushner’s governmentwide push to secure protective gear for the nation’s doctors and nurses, the volunteers were put in charge of sifting through more than a thousand incoming leads, and told to pass only the best ones on for further review by FEMA officials."

How Kushner’s Volunteer Force Led a Fumbling Hunt for Medical Supplies (Published 2020)

Young, inexperienced workers scrambled to sort through tips on equipment desperately needed to fight the coronavirus while warehouses ran bare and doctors made their own gear.

www.nytimes.com

 

[berg80]

"The White House revealed on Monday that members of its coronavirus task force – and their deputies – are barred from testifying before Congress unless they get special permission from chief of staff Mark Meadows. The reason being given for blocking public health officials is that they’re busy trying to get control of a contagion that has now killed at least 68,172 and infected 1,175,000 Americans.

But this is just the latest in a growing list of power plays by President Trump to thwart congressional oversight and independent watchdogs from scrutinizing his administration’s response to the novel coronavirus and the way trillions of dollars are being distributed by the government."

 

[berg80]

Trump touted reopening. Privately, his team sounded alarms.

Trump touted reopening. Privately, his team sounded alarms.

Tapes of conference calls of FEMA and HHS officials across the country reveal widespread worries about new waves of Covid-19 infections.

www.politico.com

President Donald Trump boasted on May 1 that his success in responding to the coronavirus pandemic has made ventilator, test kit and mask shortages a thing of the past, and that much of the country is ready to quickly send people back to work.

“We’ve ensured a ventilator for every patient who needs one,” he said. “The testing and the masks and all of the things, we’ve solved every problem. We solved it quickly.”

But that same day, his own health and emergency management officials were privately warning that states were still experiencing shortages of masks, gowns and other medical gear, according to a recording of an interagency meeting between FEMA and HHS officials across the country, conducted by conference call, which was obtained by POLITICO.

 

[Lesh]

The leftists better figure out how to beat the essence of Trumpery because it's been kick their asses for over 3 years and counting.

It's currently kicking the NATION'S ass

 

[berg80]

The leftists better figure out how to beat the essence of Trumpery because it's been kick their asses for over 3 years and counting.

It's currently kicking the NATION'S ass

Imagine if Hillary had appointed Chelsea to manage a group of people to ostensibly help with the government's virus response but they were so inept and unqualified they made matters worse.

this is just one more example of the Trump scandal machine flooding the zone with so much chaos we all can't keep track of it.