Lou Dobbs Pushed Trump to Fire 'Flailing,' 'Overwhelmed' Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielse

[applegrove]

Lou Dobbs Pushed Trump to Fire ‘Flailing,’ ‘Overwhelmed’ Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen

https://www.thedailybeast.com/foxs-lou-dobbs-pushed-trump-to-fire-flailing-overwhelmed-homeland-security-secretary-kirstjen-nielsen?ref=home

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Fox Business host and immigration hardliner Lou Dobbs repeatedly told Trump, both privately and on his show, to fire departing Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, The Daily Beastreported Monday. Last month, Dobbs railed against Nielsen as “flailing” and “overwhelmed” on Lou Dobbs Tonight, adding that “The president needs to fire [Nielsen]. She is nothing but a roadblock on creativity, innovation, adaptiveness and responding to the situation we have instead of the one she apparently wants to dream about.” Dobbs’ tactics were quite similar to those he used to help convince Trump to fire former Attorney General Jeff Sessions—last March, for example, he tweeted that “Sessions has fallen ill, he’s incapacitated in some fashion, or he’s been coopted or captured: to preserve any dignity, for the good of the country he needs to resign.” And while Dobbs doesn’t have a role in the administration, Trump reportedly values his advice so much that he’s even had the commentator patched into Oval Office briefings.

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[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. I remember when Lou Dobbs was relatively normal.

He had a financial show on CNN some years ago that I watched occasionally, and although he was sort of conservative he wasn't batshit crazy. But gradually he started going off on immigration, more and more, until he started to sound crazy and I stopped watching him. I think that's about when CNN fired him and he went to Fox. It sounds like he's really gone off the deep end now. And Trump gets his advice from Fox "News," which is profoundly horrible.

[Mike Nelson]

2. I remember that too...

… he seemed to slowly be going crazy. He would connect the most disconnected stories to South American immigrants. It became the only thing that mattered. Even when there was no immigration story, it would lead with one. His passion showed what he wanted to talk about. The producers must have wondered what was wrong with Lou...

[applegrove]

3. Me too. I stopped watching him when he started harping on immigration.