'Rejecting all oversight': is Trump purging government watchdogs?

[Galraedia]

Donald Trump’s abrupt ousting of two veteran watchdogs has prompted fears the scandal-prone US president is purging people from government who have oversight of fraud, waste and abuse.

The moves also come at a time when a global pandemic and resulting mass unemployment crisis has prompted a multitrillion-dollar economic rescue effort, much of which is aimed at helping some of America’s largest companies.

Ex-watchdogs – dubbed inspectors general – plus top Democrats have voiced alarm at Trump’s removal last week of an acting IG at the Pentagon slated to lead a new oversight panel for the $2.2tn coronavirus relief law. The move came just days after Trump axed the intelligence community IG who had alerted Congress to a whistleblower complaint precipitating Trump’s impeachment.

Trump also drew fire for tapping a White House lawyer involved in fighting impeachment as a special IG to oversee a $500bn corporate bailout piece of the $2.2tn law. Days before, Trump had used the signing statement for the law to blunt two newly created IG posts, suggesting he would decide what information Congress receives about the aid package.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/apr/12/trump-inspector-general-purge-watchdogs

[Pillow talk]

1. trump is well aware his days as potus are likely numbered. he will loot the kitty by 10 fold now.

[Celerity]

5. loot the kitty

[Pillow talk]

6. its a saying my dad uses which proves we become our parents . and there is not a thing funny

about it.

[Celerity]

7. I find humour in many things, even if of a gallows variety

[Pillow talk]

9. That's a quality i envy.

[Celerity]

10. fairplay

[demtenjeep]

2. Get rid of him now

what is it going to take?

[bdamomma]

4. that

is the question we would have to shout out to our Reps and Senators. We should not let this go. Let these bastards pay for their deadly deeds. Remember WE THE PEOPLE.

[Lock him up.]

8. January 24 prediction:

'If Truth Doesn't Matter, We're Lost': Rep. Adam Schiff's 9-Minute Closing Argument on Why Senate Must Remove Trump:

"You know you can't trust this president to do what's right for this country. You can trust he will do what's right for Donald Trump. He'll do it now. He's done it before."

[bdamomma]

11. Adam Schiff

told those bastard death cult, I don't hear shit from the repigs. They will all go down, bastards.

tRump is killing Americans

[pat_k]

3. Yes. Any competent person who hasn't already been purged is going on the "hit list."

They've been decimating Executive branch agencies since the day he took office.

And he formalized the effort with his "Deep State Hit List."