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Tue May 2, 2017 | 5:20pm EDT
Conservative U.S. think tank Heritage Foundation fires leader
By Ginger Gibson | WASHINGTON
The Heritage Foundation, a leading conservative think tank that has gained influence in Republican-controlled Washington, fired its leader Jim DeMint on Tuesday, and sources close to the situation said the organization's leadership determined he had veered too far from its conservative principals and too close to U.S. President Donald Trump's White House.
A scathing statement from Thomas A. Saunders III, chairman of The Heritage Foundations Board of Trustees, did not go into specifics of any disagreement but did cite problems with internal communications and other "management issues."
"While the organization has seen many successes, Jim DeMint and a handful of his closest advisers failed to resolve these problems."
Two political operatives who work with the organization said DeMint's opponents argued that he had grown too close to Trump and too far from the conservative principles on which the organization was founded.
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Turbineguy
(37,412 posts)"conservative principles", quite another to be a buffoon.
edhopper
(33,658 posts)is a whore.
MountCleaners
(1,148 posts)the Heritage Foundation playbook. What's going to happen now that they want to distance themselves from
Trump, whatever that means?
Divide and conquer, people!
sarah FAILIN
(2,857 posts)My crystal ball said so.