Peers Shocked At Nielsen's 'Cruella De Vil' Presser, Hardline Immigration Views

[DonViejo]

By Kate Riga | July 3, 2018 9:48 am

Former colleagues of DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen — from Georgetown University to her stint with the Bush administration to her homeland security career — have theories for why the wonky career bureaucrat they once knew has transformed into the poster child for the Trump administration’s most extreme immigration policies.

According to a Politico Magazine report, her behavior is baffling to some of those familiar with her personality.

“This almost Cruella de Vil press conference that she held was shocking to those of us who know her,” said Arick Wierson, Nielsen’s classmate at Georgetown. “That’s not the Kirstjen we know.”

To others, the about-face can be interpreted as responsibility to stick with the turbulent administration and provide a sense of quiet calm from the inside.

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[hlthe2b]

1. Bullshit... I am damned fed up with those who give these sycophants "benefit-of-the-doubt"

suggesting they are trying to "provide a sense of quiet calm from the inside"... They ARE ENABLING and thus every bit as complicit.

The lessons of Nuremberg have been (seemingly) forgotten. sigh....

[bronxiteforever]

2. This +100000

[get the red out]

3. Me too!

No one is forcing her to keep that job and carry out crimes against humanity.

[DBoon]

5. Eichmann

boring officials doing their jobs made mass murder possible

[Achilleaze]

6. "I vas onlee following das orders of Comrade Casino*" - Komrade Kirstjen (R)

* aka Dirty Donny, republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief

[Solly Mack]

4. Fart noises

She is who she is and it shows.

[gratuitous]

7. No, no, no!

This issue is too winning to continue. Let's get bogged down in minutiae and get it hopelessly confused. It's not DHS that does immigration policy. Get way down in the weeds to lay the blame for this cruel policy at the feet of one or two sub-deputies to the assistant to the undersecretary of the division of the department. Voters prize 100% accuracy above all else; the Republicans have proven that time and again, and we must be 100% accurate, rather than condemn the practice. It's not good enough to win on this easy issue; we must win the right way or it means nothing!

Or so I'm told.