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Trump cabinet selections and appointments

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

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Dog breeder... I guess the tiger guy was unavailable...

Special Report: HHS chief Azar had aide, former dog breeder, steer pandemic task force

On January 21, the day the first U.S. case of coronavirus was reported, the secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services appeared on Fox News to report the latest on the disease as it ravaged China. Alex Azar, a 52-year-old lawyer and former drug industry executive, assured Americans the U.S. government was prepared.
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“We developed a diagnostic test at the CDC, so we can confirm if somebody has this,” Azar said. “We will be spreading that diagnostic around the country so that we are able to do rapid testing on site.” While coronavirus in Wuhan, China, was “potentially serious,” Azar assured viewers in America, it “was one for which we have a playbook.” Azar’s initial comments misfired on two fronts. Like many U.S. officials, from President Donald Trump on down, he underestimated the pandemic’s severity. He also overestimated his agency’s preparedness.
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As is now widely known, two agencies Azar oversaw as HHS secretary, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration, wouldn’t come up with viable tests for five and half weeks, even as other countries and the World Health Organization had already prepared their own. Shortly after his televised comments, Azar tapped a trusted aide with minimal public health experience to lead the agency’s day-to-day response to COVID-19. The aide, Brian Harrison, had joined the department after running a dog-breeding business for six years. Five sources say some officials in the White House derisively called him “the dog breeder.” Azar’s optimistic public pronouncement and choice of an inexperienced manager are emblematic of his agency’s oft-troubled response to the crisis. His HHS is a behemoth department, overseeing almost every federal public health agency in the country, with a $1.3 trillion budget that exceeds the gross national product of most countries.
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https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...eeder-steer-pandemic-task-force-idUSKCN2243CE

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"spirited"...

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Dog breeder... I guess the tiger guy was unavailable...

Special Report: HHS chief Azar had aide, former dog breeder, steer pandemic task force

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...eeder-steer-pandemic-task-force-idUSKCN2243CE
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Secret catamite lover? That's not a plotline from Rome at all...

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New press cadet must be short...

Interesting to note her immediate predecessor didn't do a single press conference while she was press secretary, so the lectern must have been to sarah huckabee sanders size...

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NewRoxFan said: ↑

New press cadet must be short...

Interesting to note her immediate predecessor didn't do a single press conference while she was press secretary, so the lectern must have been to sarah huckabee sanders size...
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I don't think so; not wide enough.

(please forgive me)

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New press cadet must be short...

Interesting to note her immediate predecessor didn't do a single press conference while she was press secretary, so the lectern must have been to sarah huckabee sanders size...
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#cleverfatshame

Anyways, she's got big shoes expectations to fill.

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Kayleigh McEnany is so full of doublespeak that she belongs in a contemporary remake of 1984.
Which may be a reflection of where this administration is heading.

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... and another awful trump sycophant being placed into an important intelligence position...

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Kayleigh McEnany is so full of doublespeak that she belongs in a contemporary remake of 1984.
Which may be a reflection of where this administration is heading.
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"heading"? You don't think they're already in full Orwell mode, minus the eloquence?

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LOL, that didn't last long...

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Wow... she is two for two...

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Aw heck, and she seemed so promising... after promising she would never lie, trump's new press secretary... lied. Numerous time.

Fact check: New White House press secretary makes false claims in first briefing

"We have a handwritten FBI note that says, quote, 'we need to get Flynn to lie,' quote, and get him fired," McEnany said. "There is an unfair target on the back of General Michael Flynn. It should concern every American, anytime there is a partisan pursuit of an individual."
Facts First: The FBI notes do raise serious new questions about the Flynn case, but McEnany misquoted them in a way that makes them look much more damning than they actually are. She ignored parts of the notes that undercut Trump's cherry-picked narrative, and added the phrase "we need" before "to get him to lie," even though she said it was a word-for-word quote. Also, McEnany's claims that Flynn was politically targeted are not supported by the facts. A federal judge recently ruled that there wasn't a partisan plot against Flynn, and the Justice Department watchdog concluded that the Flynn investigation was opened without bias.
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In discussing Flynn, McEnany said: "I've seen a whole lot of scant information about Michael Flynn, when there was speculation about Russia, Russia, Russia, culminating in $40 million of taxpayer money being lost in a complete and total exoneration of President Trump." Facts First: McEnany exaggerated both the outcome of special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation and its cost. Mueller explicitly said that he was not giving the President a complete exoneration. And the investigation actually cost $32 million, according to figures released by the Justice Department.
Mueller's report said that the investigation did not establish that the Trump campaign "coordinated or conspired" with Russia's election interference. The report did, however, lay out a case that Trump may have committed obstruction of justice. It explained that Mueller would abide by a Justice Department policy that holds that a sitting President cannot be indicted. "... while this report does not conclude that the President committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him," the report said. When Mueller was asked by House Judiciary chairman Jerry Nadler during congressional testimony in July 2019 if he "totally exonerate(d) the President," Mueller simply said, "No."
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A reporter asked McEnany if the "very good people" remark was referring specifically to armed militia members who crowded into the state Capitol on Thursday. McEnany responded: "The President was referencing generally that in this country you have a First Amendment right to protest." Facts First: Trump's tweet did not make any reference to the First Amendment or the general right to protest. He simply praised opponents of the restrictions -- though he did not specify whether he was referring to armed militia members or any of the others -- and urged Gov. Gretchen Whitmer to make concessions to them.
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When asked about a New York Times report that senior Trump administration officials have pushed intelligence agencies to find evidence supporting the theory that Covid-19 originated in a Wuhan laboratory, McEnany responded, "I can assure you that no one is pressing the intelligence community to come to a determination." McEnany attempted to further clarify the White House's stance on the origins of the outbreak by suggesting that the President and the intelligence community are in agreement, despite apparent contradictions in recent statements. Referring to a statement the Office of the Director of National Intelligence released a few hours before the President took questions Thursday at the White House on coronavirus, McEnany added, "The intelligence community statement stands. It's in perfect concert with what the President said."
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Facts First: It's a stretch to say the intelligence community statement and the President's recent remarks on the origin of the novel coronavirus were in "perfect" alignment. The President on Thursday told the press, without providing details, that he has seen evidence that gives him a high degree of confidence that the Wuhan Institute of Virology was the origin of the novel coronavirus. However, the public statement from ODNI said that no such assessment about the outbreak's origins has been made as they continue to "rigorously examine" the origins of the outbreak.
Two weeks earlier, when asked about concerns the virus was manmade or otherwise came out of a laboratory in China, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation's top infectious disease expert, said the evolution of the virus is "totally consistent with a jump of a species from an animal to a human."
When pressed about his confidence in a connection between the virus and the Wuhan lab, Trump said he was "not allowed" to share the information which lead him to that conclusion.
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https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/01/politics/mcenany-first-briefing-fact-check-may-1/index.html

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... and another awful trump sycophant being placed into an important intelligence position...

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Outright lie...

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LOL... lil' mario and the weakest form of whataboutism ever. Comparing the congressional duty of advise and consent on a weak presidential appointee to *rumored* VP names? An appointee that trump previously was nominating but pulled because of ratcliffe's questionable experience and qualifications and sketchy past statements?

Marco Rubio: 'Funny' that Dems object to Trump's DNI pick, but back VP candidates with 'no experience'
https://www.foxnews.com/media/sen-m...e-qualified-for-dni-than-some-dem-vp-hopefuls

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Each time trump finds someone worse that the last one...

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