{"id":54921,"date":"2020-05-16T15:42:33","date_gmt":"2020-05-16T20:42:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=54921"},"modified":"2020-05-16T15:50:48","modified_gmt":"2020-05-16T20:50:48","slug":"54921","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=54921","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Besides getting rid of people in his administration he has good reason to distrust (Obama appointees, and to point out Obama and Clinton did exactly the same thing, but simply on their first day in office) I said it quite awhile ago; Trump is trolling the demoncraps with these dismissals of people who serve at his pleasure.<br \/>\nHe&#8217;s got them figured out and knows just how, and when, to push their buttons to make them pull their hair and scream. And they can&#8217;t help but respond in hysterics, which is exactly what he wants them to do. It&#8217;s not something new for him for from what I can tell, he developed this into a fine art during his years in the construction business.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pjmedia.com\/news-and-politics\/rick-moran\/2020\/05\/16\/heads-exploding-in-washington-as-trump-fires-state-department-ig-n397996\">Heads Exploding in Washington as Trump Fires State Department IG<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump sent a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi informing her that he was firing state department inspector general Steve Linick.<\/p>\n<p>The president told Pelosi he \u201cno longer\u201d had the \u201cfullest confidence\u201d in Linick and promised to send a nominee to the Hill shortly. Later, the state department announced that Amb. Stephen Akard, a career foreign service officer, would run the inspector general\u2019s office. Akard was chief of staff for the Indiana Economic Development Corporation under then-governor Pence.<\/p>\n<p>Linick was appointed in 2013 by President Obama and angered Trump by having a role in the impeachment drama. He was also said to be investigating Secretary of State Mike Pompeo for alleged misuse of a political appointee to perform personal tasks for him and Mrs. Pompeo.<\/p>\n<p>Naturally, Democrats\u2019 heads were exploding all over the Hill.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2020\/05\/15\/state-department-inspector-general-fired-261536\">Politico:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe president\u2019s late-night, weekend firing of the State Department inspector general has accelerated his dangerous pattern of retaliation against the patriotic public servants charged with conducting oversight on behalf of the American people,\u201d Pelosi said in an statement. \u201cInspector General Linick was punished for honorably performing his duty to protect the Constitution and our national security, as required by the law and by his oath.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Eliot L. Engel (D-N.Y.), chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, called Linick\u2019s dismissal an \u201coutrageous act of a president trying to protect one of his most loyal supporters, the secretary of State, from accountability.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Besides getting rid of people in his administration he has good reason to distrust (Obama appointees, and to point out Obama and Clinton did exactly the same thing, but simply on their first day in office) I said it quite awhile ago; Trump is trolling the demoncraps with these dismissals of people who serve at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=54921\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54921"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54926,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54921\/revisions\/54926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}