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https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/08/politics/trump-appointees-biden-boards/index.html
(CNN) The Biden administration has told 11 officials appointed to military service academy advisory boards by former President Donald Trump to resign or be dismissed, a source familiar with the situation tells CNN's KFile.
The officials asked to resign include prominent former Trump officials like former White House press secretary Sean Spicer, former senior counselor to the President Kellyanne Conway and former national security adviser H.R. McMaster. They were appointed to the advisory boards of the Naval Academy, Air Force Academy and West Point respectively.
Other more prominent names include Heidi Stirrup, the former White House liaison to the Justice Department who was banned from entering the building after she attempted to access sensitive information about possible election fraud in December 2020, and retired Col. Douglas Macgregor, a former ambassador pick and Pentagon official with a history of controversial comments. The duo were appointed to the boards of the Air Force Academy and West Point.
Other appointees who have been asked to resign are Michael Wynne, who was appointed to the board of the Air Force Academy; retired Gen. John Keane, Meaghan Mobbs, and David Urban appointed to the board of West Point; and John Coale and Russell Vought, Trump's former director of the Office of Management and Budget, appointed to the Naval Academy's board.
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BREAKING: The Biden administration has told 11 appointees to military academy boards by the Trump administration to resign by tonight or be removed.
Officials asked to resign include Kellyanne Conway, Sean Spicer & H.R. McMaster
11:22 AM · Sep 8, 2021 from Los Angeles, CA
Nevilledog
(51,090 posts)dalton99a
(81,468 posts)Wounded Bear
(58,648 posts)lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)Yikes!
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)Other people in positions to do real, immediate harm were removed immediately. or at least removed from access to computers, etc, if they couldn't be dismissed right away. I remember that starting January 20.
former9thward
(31,997 posts)They are placed there by whoever the POTUS is and its a reward for political support. Its more honorary than anything.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)These people of course DIShonor these positions.
spanone
(135,830 posts)Comfortably_Numb
(3,806 posts)Canoe52
(2,948 posts)Paladin
(28,254 posts)What a collection of utter filth, placed in contact with the nation's military academies.
ancianita
(36,048 posts)Poiuyt
(18,122 posts)Any trump appointee is a stain on America.
rurallib
(62,411 posts)maxsolomon
(33,327 posts)Biden must replace the Board until a majority are Dems.
Shit takes time.
Marius25
(3,213 posts)maxsolomon
(33,327 posts)It was deliberate destruction and corruption.
It's going to take longer than 8 months to build it back.
tanyev
(42,552 posts)Hit the road, hacks, and dont you come back no more.
11 Bravo
(23,926 posts)Hekate
(90,667 posts)GoCubsGo
(32,080 posts)Not going to post her lunacy here, but she's being typically ugly. Another one in dire need of psychiatric assistance... Why the fuck this unqualified fuckwit is on a military academy board is beyond me.
bdamomma
(63,845 posts)the trash please, DeJoy should be next.
Xolodno
(6,390 posts)...every admin has them. Appointed to roles that don't mean anything nor have much influence. But they do get access to information. They've always been tolerated because even though they may feed that info to the opposite party, they keep their trap shut and the opponents have to find another source so it looks legit.
I'm going to bet someone was yapping to the news networks, hence, why their was so many embarrassments as of late. Solution, end the long "tolerated" tradition and get rid of them all. I bet Conway was the one who kept blabbing...now, they have nothing to go on. Pretty sure some GOP officials are pissed about it.
Wednesdays
(17,359 posts)Just look at how Conway and Spicer are moaning about it, gives you an idea.