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Trump cabinet choices and other appointments

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  1. adoo

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    just my guess,

    that includes the evidence of Trump / Epstein's dalliance w under-age girls.
    but, Musk, while heading DOGE, got to that evidence first.​
     
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    How confident should we be in the loyal to Trump first, yes men of his admin?
     
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    Issacman is back! SpaceX is about to rock and roll

     
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    WSJ:

    A pilot fired over Kristi Noem’s missing blanket and the constant chaos inside DHS

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    A blanket and a badge
    Within DHS, Noem and Lewandowski have cut employees or put them on administrative leave. The pair have fired or demoted roughly 80% of the career ICE field leadership that was in place when they started.

    In the blanket incident, Noem had to switch planes after a maintenance issue was discovered, but her blanket wasn’t moved to the second plane, according to the people familiar with the incident. The Coast Guard pilot was initially fired and told to take a commercial flight home when they reached their destination. They eventually reinstated the pilot because no one else was available to fly them home.

    The DHS spokeswoman didn’t address the episode but said the secretary has “made personnel decisions to deliver excellence.”

    In an incident last year that rankled some senior staff at the agency, Lewandowski made it known to top ICE officials that he wanted to be issued a law-enforcement badge and a federally issued gun, according to people familiar with his push. Officials are typically only issued a badge and a gun after undergoing law-enforcement training.

    The administration was preparing to bring on Tom Feeley, a former top ICE official in New York, as its new director when Lewandowski asked Feeley if he would be willing to issue him and several other political officials badges and guns. Feeley declined, and he was subsequently passed over for the top job at ICE.


    Lewandowski next turned to ICE’s legal office for help writing him a legal justification to be issued the badge and gun. A top ICE lawyer, Ken Padilla, also declined to sign off, and days later he was placed on administrative leave. He was later demoted and moved to FEMA, the people said. Padilla declined to comment.

    Lewandowski eventually persuaded other lawyers to sign off. The ICE director’s autopen was used to sign the paperwork, the people said.

    The DHS spokeswoman denied that Lewandowski made efforts to secure a federal gun or signed paperwork, adding that Lewandowski didn’t talk to Feeley and that Padilla was put on administrative leave for unrelated reasons. The spokeswoman didn’t address any efforts to get a badge.

    Efforts to issue Lewandowski a gun stalled after The Wall Street Journal and other news organizations inquired about the incident last year, the people said. Still, Lewandowski has been spotted by DHS staff sporting a badge, emblazoned with the words “Homeland Security.”

    Write to Michelle Hackman at michelle.hackman@wsj.com, Josh Dawsey at Joshua.Dawsey@WSJ.com and Tarini Parti at tarini.parti@wsj.com
     
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    what an admission by the former heroin addict !


     
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    Legend.
     

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