Trump plans to purge 7 more Inspectors General.

[TheBlackAdder]

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First it was this guy:

QuickTake by Bloomberg
@QuickTake
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Apr 4
Replying to
@QuickTake
When asked about the status of this summer's Republican National Convention, Trump said there is "no contingency plan" and took the opportunity to mock both former GOP candidate Bill Weld and Democratic candidate Joe Biden #CoronavirusUSA

Link to tweet

Now it's 7 more:

Susan Crabtree
@susancrabtree
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14h
Breaking: Trump is firing 7 IGs in one fail swoop, sources confirm to @RealClearNews
. Most likely will be the IGs that were appointed by Pres. Obama or beforehand. He wants his own people in those positions now. Trump during his briefing said he has "put in 7 names" for IGs.

Link to tweet

He's really sliding to fascism as fast as he can. I guess he senses time is running out.

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[ananda]

1. And he doesn't want anyone interfering with all the looting..

.. and powergrabbing.

[Walleye]

2. Imagine what he would do in a 2nd term. The horror!

[Arkansas Granny]

3. If he replaces them, what are the odds he'll require a loyalty oath?

[maxrandb]

4. If we are counting on Retrumplicans holding him accountable

You haven't been paying attention.

Oh, and when President Biden fires every last God Damned Donnie Shit for Brains appointees.. even for something as small as dogcatcher...AND tells the Supreme Court to fuck the right off and try to enforce their fucked up fascist rulings, I don't want one God Damned person to talk to me about "rules and norms"

[jayschool2013]

29. Amen.

Forever and ever, amen.

[Cosmocat]

38. T H I S

nm

[ancianita]

5. The bigger the wall, the more likely the cracks, and the bigger the fall.

[ancianita]

6. This is what he does when he's prevented from golfing.

[Tanuki]

7. How is this not obstruction of justice?

[gratuitous]

8. Senator Collins? Susan?

Gee, where'd she go?

[Dawgman49]

25. She's very concerned

[Mystery sage]

27. Perhaps even troubling

[lagomorph777]

9. Time is not on Turd's side. He will be flushed in November.

Come hell, high water, or plague.

[gab13by13]

34. He won't be flushed until January,

Just imagine the damage he can do between November and January.

[lagomorph777]

40. He'll be spinning around in the bowl from November to January.

I imagine he and Moscow Mitch will be busy shredding documents and shopping for Russian real estate during that time, too busy to accomplish much else.

[Botany]

10. Trump wants to kill people " ... sports leagues would re-open "sooner rather than later"

We can not have sports with fans until we have a vaccine. End of story.

[jayschool2013]

31. True

And umpires, and referees, and journalists, and coaches, and grounds crews, and trainers.

[Botany]

42. Right on! And even if they don't have fans they will still have 1,000s of people at each games

Players, ground crew, trainers, doctors, broadcaster people, umpires, coaches, and a bunch of
other people too. Trump talking about sports coming back soon is madness.

[colsohlibgal]

11. Guess It Can Happen Here

We are sliding so, so close to Autocracy. 2020 could be our last chance to stop and reverse this slide.

Do what you have to do to vote this disgusting human and many of his enablers out of Office.

If we do we need to prosecute who needs to be prosecuted to the hilt.

[ooky]

12. Man, the shit is really going to hit the fan when he makes his move

to remain in office without having to be re-elected fairly. It is SO coming.

[spanone]

13. He'll get his SLUSH FUND and use our money to buy the upcoming election....

[CaptYossarian]

14. When he gets bored, he pretends he's on that stupid show.

So much fantasy in that liddle brain of his.

[UTUSN]

15. K&R

[bucolic_frolic]

16. No oversight translates to rule by secrecy

Also Grand Canyon park chief replaced by government lawyer. Tell me mining interests aren't going to steal the whole thing. With no oversight.

[procon]

17. Wonder what Trump is trying hide?

Is he afraid one of those IGs is going to let the cat out of the bag or discover what new sort of suspicious, illegal and nefarious activities Trump has planned to get his sticky fingers on the money without anyone around to find out.

[WyattKansas]

21. Government employees are overdue from not being so careful with...

Damaging documents tRump wants hidden and that shows tRump screwing Republicans too. Better yet, showing tRump skull fucking the U.S.A. and punching Lady Liberty.

If COVID-19 forces many to work at home, then what a perfect excuse on how mishaps could happen. Since he appointed bozos to run things, it shouldn't be too hard. And never forget, it is only a matter of SHORT time for all Government workers, until they too are terminated by tRump.

Whip the tRump/Republican base into a piranha frenzy hopped up on speed and Red Bull by short circuiting them into turning on their masters.

[Alex4Martinez]

18. K/R and it's "fell swoop", not "fail swoop". Autocorrect?

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One fell swoop
To do something in one fell swoop is to do it suddenly or in a single, swift action. Fell here is an adjective meaning fierce, savage, cruel, or ruthless.1 This sense of fell is otherwise archaic, preserved mainly in this idiom. The swoop in one fell swoop is a noun referring to (1) a blow or stroke or (2), metaphorically, a bird’s sudden, sweeping descent from a height.

[BBG]

19. A typo that still rang true

Removing IGs in such a manner is a fail as well as a fell swoop.

[BKDem]

24. Or as Inspector Clouseau would say, "one swell foop."

[calimary]

30. And Molly Ivins, too.

[Alex4Martinez]

37. That actually sounds more like it!

Also, Foop: Trump's hairstyle.

[BKDem]

39. The very swellest foop!

[freepotter]

33. Personally, I like "One swell foop"

nt

[JohnnyRingo]

20. I wonder what the process is.

It's hard to believe a president has the ability to stack the deck by firing IGs at will and appointing his stooges. Certainly a pres would be able to give the directive "make waves and you're fired".

Isn't congress involved?

[shanti]

41. Barr is telling him what he can do

He can't think of these things on his own.

[cstanleytech]

22. It's ok as soon as we retake the White House our guys will replace Trump's and an

audit as well as a criminal investigation can be conducted on things like where the money went.

[dalton99a]

23. Kick

[Turbineguy]

26. People who want to work for trump should condsider their position.

As in "How much of the time I have left on this Earth do I want to spend in prison?"

[vlyons]

28. We are in deep deep do-do

Trump puts in his own Vandals to enable him pillage as much as possible

[Lonestarblue]

32. Inspectors General should not be subject to firing by any president.

Maybe they should report to Congress since the DOJ under Barr has shown us that the DOJ can be corrupted by a presidential appointee. If reporting to Congress, it should take a majority vote of both houses to remove for proven illegal actions, not for just acting against a president’s wishes. The Office of Inspector General was established by Congress in 1976. It should be up to Congress to change the reporting structure and independence of people occupying the role.

[Pantagruel]

35. You'll need partisan IG's

to cover up all the warnings ignored.........

"Intelligence report warned of coronavirus crisis as early as November: Sources


Source: ABC News

"Analysts concluded it could be a cataclysmic event," a source says.

By Josh Margolin and James Gordon Meek

April 8, 2020, 4:01 AM

As far back as late November, U.S. intelligence officials were warning that a contagion was sweeping through China’s Wuhan region, changing the patterns of life and business and posing a threat to the population, according to four sources briefed on the secret reporting.

Concerns about what is now known to be the novel coronavirus pandemic were detailed in a November intelligence report by the military's National Center for Medical Intelligence (NCMI), according to two officials familiar with the document’s contents.

[llashram]

36. we are

in deep kimchi with this fascist wannabe dictator. Trump has no compassion, no conscience. He is an evil con man and his grifter family is no better. The outmoded/outdated Electoral College vote system did this to us, not the 66million trump votes, they were by and large just confused idiots looking for what they got. HRC got 4million more votes than this current POTUS.

He is cleaning house of ALL who oppose him. It is straight out the fascist's handbook. Did you know he used to keep a copy of Mein Kampf on his night table stand? Wonder if it's still there? Wonder if he still makes his good night call to his brolove, Putin begging him not to release the tapes?

November shall be a true testing time for this experiment in democracy as a system of governance.

[live love laugh]

43. So he can steal a few billion for himself and for hush money. nt