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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump nixes war criminal Elliot Abrams for State Dept. (for predictable reason)
http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/10/politics/elliott-abrams-trump-state-department-tillerson/Elliott Abrams, who served Presidents Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush, will not get the No. 2 job at the State Department, three Republican sources told CNN.
But Abrams was nixed from the list of contenders after President Donald Trump learned of Abrams' biting criticism last May of his fitness to become president, the Republican sources said.
The President found out about Abrams' outspokenness against Trump after meeting with him on Tuesday to consider him for the position, which would have made him Secretary of State Rex Tillerson's deputy. The meeting went well, but Trump could not get past Abrams' past criticism, the sources said.
Abrams, Bush's deputy national security adviser, had emerged as the top contender to become Tillerson's right-hand man.
"This is a loss for the State Department and the country and, for that matter, for the President," said one Republican source.
Another Republican source with knowledge of what happened said Abrams would not get the job because of "Donald Trump's thin skin and nothing else."
I'd be appalled if this were a qualified, responsible individual, but fuck Elliot Abrams.
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Trump nixes war criminal Elliot Abrams for State Dept. (for predictable reason) (Original Post)
geek tragedy
Feb 2017
OP
Being a war criminal doesn't disqualify you from working for Trump.
The Velveteen Ocelot
Feb 2017
#1
Can Donny really do this? Don't the heads of the department have a say on whom they hire?
question everything
Feb 2017
#4
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,691 posts)1. Being a war criminal doesn't disqualify you from working for Trump.
But ever having criticized Trump does.
babylonsister
(171,065 posts)2. Up is down. nt
muriel_volestrangler
(101,315 posts)3. It's the Tony Soprano School of Human Resource Management (nt)
question everything
(47,479 posts)4. Can Donny really do this? Don't the heads of the department have a say on whom they hire?
Reminds me of the old days in the office, before Anita Hill, when a departmental V.P. determined who should be the next secretary, not his, because she was "cute."
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)5. Cabinet secretaries don't have a lot of formal say
Pretty much all the high level political appointees like this are nominated by the president and subject to Senate confirmation.