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Grasswire2

(13,567 posts)
3. story from Politico within this hour
Sun Aug 2, 2020, 08:12 PM
Aug 2020

]https://www.politico.com/news/2020/08/02/donald-trump-anthony-tata-pentagon-390851


President Donald Trump has installed a nominee for a top Pentagon job in a senior Department of Defense post on a temporary basis after lawmakers abruptly canceled his confirmation hearing last week amid lingering questions about his fitness for the role.

Nevilledog

(51,079 posts)
7. They were going to have some troubles getting him confirmed.
Sun Aug 2, 2020, 08:20 PM
Aug 2020

WHAT said fuck you to both Republican and Democratic Senators and made him like the 10,000th acting director of the admin.

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blogslut

(37,999 posts)
8. Here's Wonkette
Sun Aug 2, 2020, 08:26 PM
Aug 2020
https://www.wonkette.com/trump-yanks-nomination-for-anthony-tata-turns-out-hes-not-all-the-best-people-after-all

Tata currently serves at the Pentagon as a senior advisor to Defense Secretary Mark Esper. In April, President Trump nominated him to serve as undersecretary of defense for policy, after which CNN's Andrew Kaczynski dug up Tata's nasty, racist tweets. Golly, who could have seen that coming?

According to Tata, President Obama was a "terrorist leader" who did more to harm the US "and help Islamic countries than any president in history," as evidenced by the Iran nuclear deal, which "is more than enough evidence of his drive to subvert US national interests to Islam and globalist agenda."

In addition to multiple gross tweets about Islam, Tata called House Financial Services Chair Maxine Waters a "vicious race baiting racist who made her chops by fanning the flames of LA Riots" and invited former CIA director John Brennan to "pick your poison: firing squad, public hanging, life sentence as prison b*tch, or just suck on your pistol. Your call." Because HAW HAW prison rape and suicide.

Naturally Tata demanded to be judged on all the times he wasn't a bigoted asshole, saying "Out of the 8,800 tweets I authored and hundreds of speeches I have given, the few misstatements on Twitter, while grievous, are not indicative of who I am."

Baked Potato

(7,733 posts)
9. Just another bigot Trump corralled for his "Acting" staff.
Sun Aug 2, 2020, 08:32 PM
Aug 2020

Looks hawkish. He probably has indicated he aligns with Trump as far as Middle East policy and Trump’s upcoming operations.

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2015/09/21/army-inspectors-retired-general-had-adulterous-affairs-service.html



Amishman

(5,555 posts)
11. They are absolute bastards and enable the worst of corporate America.
Sun Aug 2, 2020, 09:18 PM
Aug 2020

They allow corporations to dump well paid workers and bring in indentured servants.

Fuck them, hate them.

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