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Trump cabinet selections and appointments

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion' started by MojoMan, Nov 18, 2016.

  1. across110thstreet

    across110thstreet Contributing Member

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    Lol, democrat OBSTRUCTIONISTS

    He's showing us in 140 characters or less that he has no iota of knowledge of how government works.

    This is the leader who was elected by a minority percentage of Americans
     
  2. NewRoxFan

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    Hmm... perhaps the rumors about Trump firing Sessions are true? 'Course, maybe someone should have followed up and asked if Trump has confidence in Spicer?

    Spicer Won't Say If Trump Has Confidence In Sessions
    http://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/...-say-if-trump-has-confidence-in-sessions.html
     
  3. NewRoxFan

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    I suspect DeVos hoped she would sneak past due to all the other blunders in the Trump administration right now. That hope was dashed quickly, by republicans...

    What we just learned from Betsy DeVos’s painful appearance before Congress
    https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...rance-before-congress/?utm_term=.88a2c6e6e6be[/QUOTE]
     
  4. Amiga

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    to be fair to Trump, who in their right mind would now want to join the Trump's train? what a shame
     
  5. NewRoxFan

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    Trump and his people can't get their story straight even on the topic of twitter:

    Yesterday, Trump's people said:
    http://www.politico.com/story/2017/06/05/donald-trump-twitter-policy-239156

    Today:
    http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/trump-s-tweets-official-statements-spicer-says-n768931
     
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    Attorney General Jeff Sessions suggested he could resign amid rising tension with President Trump
    http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/atto...uggested-resign-amid-rising/story?id=47875090
     
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    Trump nominates lawyer who defended BP after 2010 oil spill to top DOJ environmental post
    http://www.businessinsider.com/trum...il-spill-to-top-doj-environmental-post-2017-6
     
  8. NewRoxFan

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    wha? Chao was one of the cabinet members that seemed most capable and sane (other than marrying the Turtle)

    Chao says White House will decide whether Democrats get DOT questions answered
    https://www.washingtonpost.com/loca...0c031eab644_story.html?utm_term=.bb8acf00844e
     
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    You have to admit... Sarah Huckaby is already better than Spicer, and in one of the more lucid tweets, learning quick from Trump...

     
  11. NewRoxFan

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    OK, in all fairness and she even showed better humor about it than her predecessor...

     
  12. across110thstreet

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    Trump nominee for powerful bank regulator post misrepresented college degree
    Jim Puzzanghera
    BUSINESS

    President Trump’s nominee for a post as a powerful banking regulator has misrepresented a college degree on his resume, according to a spokeswoman for Dartmouth College.

    Joseph Otting, the former chief executive of Pasadena’s OneWest Bank whom Trump nominated Tuesday to be the next comptroller of the currency, has claimed to be a graduate of the School of Credit and Financial Management at Dartmouth.

    “Joseph Otting is not a Dartmouth graduate,” Diana Lawrence, the college’s associate vice president for communications, said Saturday. “Dartmouth does not have a school of credit and financial management.”

    The degree was included in a short biography of Otting released by the White House on Monday when Trump announced his intention to nominate Otting.

    The degree also was listed on a biography for a 2015 speech Otting gave at a conference hosted by the Hope Global Forums and in a 2014 announcement when he was elected as chairman of the California Chamber of Commerce board of directors.

    Otting’s misrepresentation of the degree was first reported by Bloomberg News.

    There is is a continuing education program called the Graduate School of Credit and Financial Management offered by the National Assn. of Credit Management in Columbia, Md.

    The program consists of a pair of two-week sessions in consecutive years and now is held at American University in Washington, D.C.

    Bloomberg reported that the program used to be held at Dartmouth College in Hanover, N.H., but wasn’t affiliated with the school.

    Records show that Otting graduated from the program in 1992 when he was a midlevel manager at Union Bank in Beverly Hills, Bloomberg said.

    The White House confirmed Bloomberg’s description of the program but does not believe Otting misrepresented himself, said White House spokeswoman Natalie Strom.

    Contact information for Otting, who lives in Nevada, could not be obtained.

    Otting’s biography says he has a bachelor’s degree from the University of Northern Iowa. He would be the first comptroller of the currency since 1981 without an advanced academic degree.

    The job involves leading the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, an independent bureau of the Treasury Department that oversees federally chartered banks.

    Those include the banking arms of some of the largest financial institutions in the country, including JP Morgan Chase & Co. and Bank of America Corp. The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency played a key role in the $185-million settlement last year with Wells Fargo involving its creation of unauthorized accounts.

    News that Otting misrepresented his degree is likely to add to opposition to his nomination already coming from Democrats, who have criticized OneWest’s foreclosure practices.

    Otting ran the bank from 2010 to 2015. Treasury Secretary Steven T. Mnuchin was the bank’s chairman from 2009 to 2015.

    Also, the Justice Departmentannounced last month that Financial Freedom, a OneWest subsidiary, had agreed to pay $89 million to settle allegations that it defrauded the Federal Housing Administration regarding reverse mortgage insurance payments from March 31, 2011, to Aug. 31, 2016.
     
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    Trump's very first full cabinet meeting. It was described as the greatest ever. No mention whether the cabinet members wore cheerleader skirts or not...

    Cabinet members give Trump unusual tribute
    http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/12/politics/trump-cabinet-tribute/index.html
     
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    No wonder Trump think he is doing the best job ever for a president, do the people working for him realize what this looks like from the outside?
     
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    That was awesome.
     
  18. dandorotik

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    Trump, LOL- what a clown.

    BTW..... "there has never been a President... with few exceptions.." - seriously, someone get Trump a friggin' dictionary. LOL. LMFAO. Whatever other abbreviations you can think of.
     
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    I've been wanting to say this for a long time: ClutchFans members, thank you very much for allowing me to be a part of your group. It has been a blessing every day to wake up and look forward first and foremost to posting on ClutchFans. And to have you people listen to me. I mean, I think you really, really like me! And you posters have been, with almost no exceptions, the absolute greatest people on the planet.
     
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    North Korea?
     

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