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Liberal activists say she was complicit in an immoral migrant child separation policy and should be ostracized by corporate America.By ANDREW RESTUCCIA and DANIEL LIPPMAN
Kirstjen Nielsens image makeover has already begun but it may be a hard sell.
Just days after she announced plans to resign as Homeland Security secretary, Nielsen and her allies are working to rehabilitate her reputation, arguing that shes not the heartless villain depicted by liberal critics already pressuring big companies not to hire her.
Almost as soon as word of her resignation under pressure leaked, Nielsens allies began spinning a narrative of her tenure that casts her not as an enabler of President Donald Trumps most controversial immigration policies, but as a guardrail against even more extreme action.
In particular, they stressed that the policy for which Nielsen is most fiercely reviled separating detained migrant children from their parents gave her no pleasure, and that she slow-walked or resisted other Trump demands on border security.
I think Nielsen has been treated unfairly. A caricature was created by people who oppose the way the President talks about immigration or who even oppose current immigration law thats been on the books for decades and that caricature is nothing like the person she actually is, said Thad Bingel, a former George W. Bush administration Homeland Security official who helped guide Nielsen through her Senate confirmation.
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https://www.politico.com/story/2019/04/09/nielsen-life-after-trump-1264131
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Yeah, good luck with that, Eva.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,734 posts)they weren't quite evil enough for the Trump administration. "Yes, I did separate children from their parents but I didn't really enjoy it all that much."
ProudMNDemocrat
(16,786 posts)They have reputations that cannot be mended because they sold themselves to the devil. They are damaged goods for any future employer given the constant scandals brought on by Trump himself.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,734 posts)Nobody walks away from a Trump administration job without the permanent stank of Trump on them. That's dirt that will never wash off.
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)So Neilsen was a reluctant monster who tried to normalize Trump's evil?
Generic Other
(28,979 posts)Who knew?
FakeNoose
(32,645 posts)You want to redeem yourself, Kirstjen Nielsen? Expose the orange shitler for what he really is - a dyed-orange Nazi. Let the base read it for themselves and let them see how much Chump hates them - the poor American voters - as much as he hates the "brown people."
Nothing will change until the insiders start holding up mirrors and telling the truth.
NCjack
(10,279 posts)to be rehabilitated.
NBachers
(17,120 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,734 posts)rather than just do it and then lie unconvincingly that they really weren't doing that and anyhow it was only temporary and anyhow those weren't really cages. If she has to slink back into obscurity and get a minimum-wage job cleaning cages at a zoo, too fucking bad.