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Nevilledog

(51,090 posts)
Wed Sep 8, 2021, 02:25 PM Sep 2021

Biden admin. tells Kellyanne Conway, Sean Spicer, H.R. McMaster to resign from military boards






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

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Biden admin. tells Kellyanne Conway, Sean Spicer, H.R. McMaster to resign from military boards (Original Post) Nevilledog Sep 2021 OP
Edit to add names Nevilledog Sep 2021 #1
Good. dalton99a Sep 2021 #2
About time. Well, long past time to dump these toxic placeholders...nt Wounded Bear Sep 2021 #3
They're just finding these moles now? lagomorph777 Sep 2021 #4
:) Now, how could that be possible? They're told to get out of Dodge now. Hortensis Sep 2021 #6
These are positions with little value. former9thward Sep 2021 #18
Thanks. Kind of assumed that from the delay, but nice to have confirmed. Hortensis Sep 2021 #19
K&R spanone Sep 2021 #5
The flotsam and jetsam in a dumpster fire administration. Good riddance to bad rubbish. Comfortably_Numb Sep 2021 #7
Grifters all of them. Canoe52 Sep 2021 #8
OUTSTANDING move by Biden! Paladin Sep 2021 #9
Bunch of alt-right parasites. ancianita Sep 2021 #10
What took them so long? Poiuyt Sep 2021 #11
Now get rid if that fucking DeJoy at the USPS rurallib Sep 2021 #12
Only the Board of Governors can replace the Postmaster General. maxsolomon Sep 2021 #16
Why did this take so long? Marius25 Sep 2021 #13
Trump had 4 years to burn the Federal Government to the ground. maxsolomon Sep 2021 #17
Hit the road, hacks, and don't you come back no more, no more tanyev Sep 2021 #14
What you say? 11 Bravo Sep 2021 #15
Joe started on Day One, as far as I can tell. See link Hekate Sep 2021 #20
+1 crickets Sep 2021 #21
The ever-wretched Kellyanne is on Twitter, refusing to resign and fighting with people. GoCubsGo Sep 2021 #22
Throw out bdamomma Sep 2021 #23
Stay behinds... Xolodno Sep 2021 #24
"...some GOP officials are pissed about it..." Wednesdays Sep 2021 #26
*Go*, President Joe, *GO*! UTUSN Sep 2021 #25

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
6. :) Now, how could that be possible? They're told to get out of Dodge now.
Wed Sep 8, 2021, 03:25 PM
Sep 2021

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)
18. These are positions with little value.
Wed Sep 8, 2021, 06:23 PM
Sep 2021

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)
19. Thanks. Kind of assumed that from the delay, but nice to have confirmed.
Wed Sep 8, 2021, 06:48 PM
Sep 2021

These people of course DIShonor these positions.

Paladin

(28,254 posts)
9. OUTSTANDING move by Biden!
Wed Sep 8, 2021, 04:30 PM
Sep 2021

What a collection of utter filth, placed in contact with the nation's military academies.

maxsolomon

(33,327 posts)
16. Only the Board of Governors can replace the Postmaster General.
Wed Sep 8, 2021, 06:11 PM
Sep 2021

Biden must replace the Board until a majority are Dems.

Shit takes time.

maxsolomon

(33,327 posts)
17. Trump had 4 years to burn the Federal Government to the ground.
Wed Sep 8, 2021, 06:14 PM
Sep 2021

It was deliberate destruction and corruption.

It's going to take longer than 8 months to build it back.

tanyev

(42,552 posts)
14. Hit the road, hacks, and don't you come back no more, no more
Wed Sep 8, 2021, 05:46 PM
Sep 2021

Hit the road, hacks, and don’t you come back no more.

GoCubsGo

(32,080 posts)
22. The ever-wretched Kellyanne is on Twitter, refusing to resign and fighting with people.
Wed Sep 8, 2021, 08:46 PM
Sep 2021

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.

Xolodno

(6,390 posts)
24. Stay behinds...
Wed Sep 8, 2021, 09:15 PM
Sep 2021

...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)
26. "...some GOP officials are pissed about it..."
Thu Sep 9, 2021, 11:16 AM
Sep 2021

Just look at how Conway and Spicer are moaning about it, gives you an idea.

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