Biden administration tells ex-Trump officials to resign from military academy advisory boards or be

[demmiblue]

Source: CNN

(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.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/08/politics/trump-appointees-biden-boards/index.html

[DURHAM D]

1. Surprised he didn't appoint Michael Flynn. nt

[pamdb]

2. resignations

Fine and dandy, WHAT ABOUT LOUIS DEJOY?

[totodeinhere]

3. The president does not have the authority to fire the Postmaster General.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/02/biden-cannot-fire-usps-louis-dejoy.html

[FoxNewsSucks]

11. True, not directly.

But there is a procedure, and it should have been set in motion on inauguration day.

[totodeinhere]

15. Agreed. n/t

[onenote]

35. Can you elaborate on the procedure?

[PortTack]

17. That's true, but the last dejoyless hold out on the board completes his term at the end of the yr

He’ll be gone following that board member’s departure, and appointment of someone else

[questionseverything]

20. De ass can be fired for cause (illegally slowing the mail)

It’s a felony.

He should be arrested by now

[totodeinhere]

23. The article I linked to discusses this possibility and quotes legal experts who doubt that it would

be an effective strategy so I don't know. And yes he has probably committed multiple felonies but as the article indicates, he would have to be convicted of something first which has not happened. Under our legal system he is innocent unless proven otherwise in a court of law, and he hasn't even been indicted let alone convicted.

[questionseverything]

26. There's plenty of probable cause in the public domain

For him to be indicted both for purposely slowing the mail and destroying tax payers property (the sorting machines)

Or / in addition to being indicted for making policy that benefits him personally ( that hurt customer service)

[druidity33]

29. Indicted is not the same as Convicted. nt.

[questionseverything]

32. No but being indicted is certainly enough "cause " in this case

For termination

[druidity33]

33. You didn't read the article, did you? nt.

[totodeinhere]

31. Yes, I agree.

I was not advocating that he not be indicted. I only said that it hasn't happened yet.

[Champp]

4. Republicans chose Spicer as a military academy "advisor" ?

Sighhh. Since Republicans worship a five-time draft dodging big city casino slickster, it's not surprising that they would finger Spicer for yet another job he's uniquely unqualified for. Toss the bum out.

[onetexan]

6. They only choose the best people

[peggysue2]

5. Good. Time to clean house.

Why would Sean Spicer or Kellyanne be appointed to any military academy beyond gifting loyalists with positions they don't deserve nor for which they are in any way qualified? H.R. McMaster somewhat surprises me. Don't recall that he was a great Trump fan but anyone who accepted a position in Trump's Administration has been tainted. Hard to get that stink off.

Time to face consequences, people. You wanted to dance. Now it's time to rumble.

[Me.]

7. Are You Acquainted With THe Way HR McMaster Has Been Kiciking PJB In THe Face Lately?

[peggysue2]

8. No, haven't read his comments

Over the Afghanistan withdrawal?

[peggysue2]

10. Okay, just read a Newsweek article

McMaster's comments fall flat for me bc it's the same 'we could have been successful with more time, more effort in supporting the Afghan troops and the government.'

Hogwash.

You can't succeed in twenty long years that 'right around the corner' mantra is very thin soup.

That being said, McMaster has a long, distinguished military career unlike a lot of Biden's critics. The man is entitled to his opinion however wrong. Can't help feeling there's something else in the mix.

But perhaps that is indeed 'it' the equal blaming of President Biden with Donald Trump with whom the lion's share of accountability rests.

The clashes between civilian authority over military decisions and the top brass are frequently tense. Maybe it's that, too. Remember the brouhaha between Obama and McChrystal? Never pretty.

[Me.]

16. Yes & Apparently He Has Been All Over The PLace With His Negativity

It has become so noticeable that other commentators are questioning his appearances

Here are some examples:

“Mr McMaster slammed Mr Blinken and the Biden administration for failing to make the same demands of the Taliban.
“I think that this is an astonishing degree of what I call … strategic narcissism — you know, the tendency to define the world as we would like it to be and assume that what we do or decide not to do is decisive towards achieving a favourable outcome,” he said.”

https://www.thenationalnews.com/world/us-news/2021/08/12/lieutenant-general-hr-mcmaster-slams-biden-over-afghanistan-withdrawal/

“H.R. McMaster slammed Biden in a guest essay for Bari Weiss on Monday”

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9899123/HR-McMaster-blasts-Joe-Biden-Afghanistan-withdrawal-Taliban-sweeps-Kabul.html

I am no fan of Bari Weiss

“McMaster accused President Biden of “bigotry masquerading as cultural sensitivity.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/02/19/mcmaster-biden-bigotry-china-town-hall-comments-uighurs/

I think poster #12 provides a good answer as to why he shouldn't be an advisor to this admin

[The Mouth]

9. Fine and dandy, but let's get rid of DeJoy first!!!!

[Joinfortmill]

24. Agree

[FoxNewsSucks]

12. All tRumpanzees should have been fired on Day 1

and who the hell thinks Spicer or Smellyann Conjob are good picks anyway???

[Bev54]

13. Jen Psaki was asked about this and she basically

confirmed that yes they have been asked to resign because Pres. Biden does not consider them qualified and/or do not have values that are aligned with the current administration. No surprise there.

[onetexan]

30. Well answered by the Awesome Ms. Psaki, as usual

[Moebym]

14. Goodbye, and good luck finding employment opportunities elsewhere. n/t

[former9thward]

37. Thye did not get employment from these jobs.

There was no salary involved.

[dhol82]

18. About time! n/t

[Mysterian]

19. Why has it taken eight fucking months!!

to get Sean Fucking Spicer and Kellyanne Fucking Conway off our military academy boards???!!!

This should have been DAY FUCKING ONE!

[zuul]

34. Cuz he had a lot of TFG shit to un-fuck.

During a pandemic and an economic crisis.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

21. When asked if he received a similar letter, Sebastian Gorka, who was named by Trump to ...

Dave Weigel Retweeted

When asked if he received a similar letter, Sebastian Gorka, who was named by Trump to the National Security Education Board, only replied to a text message by telling me: “Hey CuckBoy go lick some Democrat’s boots.”

Link to tweet

[Joinfortmill]

22. 👍

[JohnnyRingo]

25. Make Spicer show what he's been doing for the past 5 years

I don't believe for a minute that he can contribute anything useful to a military academy.
This was just a cake job where he went in late, read his emails, and went to lunch for the rest of the day, taking days off for dancing and his talk show on NewsMax.

This is the very definition of that swamp the dumbass's supporters' said he was going to drain.

This says all you have to know about Spicer:

He attended Connecticut College from 1989 to 1993 and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in government.[28] In college he was a student senator. In April 1993, an article in the student paper, The College Voice, referred to Spicer as "Sean Sphincter"; Spicer submitted an angry complaint to the paper and followed up by pushing for college judicial action against the paper, for which he received further ribbing from the campus satirical publication Blats. The incident was later cited as a precursor of his contentious relationship with the media

[former9thward]

36. No.

These are non salary jobs. The only money they receive is 58 cents a mile if they have to travel to go to a Board meeting.

[niyad]

38. The AFA board meets about twice a year. This year's fall meeting has been postponed until

further notice.

[Hekate]

27. Yes! Thank you, Joe!

[patricia92243]

28. If they don't resign. will they be fired.

[EndlessWire]

39. Cleaning house

It's very satisfying to hear. Whenever I think of Spicer, all I can see is the SNL skits with Melissa driving the podium through the press. Darn that was funny.

Kick them all out. And no, McMaster isn't privileged to stick a knife in the President's back. I'm just so surprised that people think a soldier has some sort of right to mean mouth the CiC. If you want to do that, don't be a soldier. Of course, I'm an ex soldier, and I mean mouthed Trump something awful. But, I'm not on a military advisory board, either.

Well, they had something to lose, and they lost it. Trump was some kind of red mafia boss. Biden is a great relief. I think he's going to get them all. Clean house, and weed out those Congress people that helped on Jan. 6th.