Homeland Security Denies Report That Secretary Drafted Resignation Letter

[riversedge]

Source: HUFF POST



05/10/2018 06:54 pm ET

The New York Times says Trump berated Kirstjen Nielsen’s ability to secure the border.


The Department of Homeland Security is denying a New York Times report that Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen drafted a resignation letter after President Donald Trump openly berated her during a Cabinet meeting on Wednesday........................................................

The Times says Nielsen told colleagues after the meeting that “she should not continue in the job if the president did not view her as effective.”

“One person familiar with the president’s blowup at the meeting said it was triggered by a discussion about why Mexico was not doing more to prevent illegal border crossings into the United States,” the Times reported. “Another person said the president was primarily focused on the homeland security department because he views Ms. Nielsen as primarily responsible for keeping illegal immigrants out of the country.”

Two unnamed sources told the Times that Nielsen drafted a resignation letter but has not submitted to the president.

DHS later issued a statement calling the Times article “false” and saying that Nielsen “is hard at work today on the President’s security-focused agenda.?.........................

Read more: https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-berated-homeland-security-secretary_us_5af4bccbe4b00d7e4c18d1f0?ncid=tweetlnkushpmg00000016&section=politics

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Strange. just strange. She is sticking up for Trump.

Link to tweet

[machoneman]

1. Put a fork in her, she's done!

Just waiting for a better time to quit the Blowtard's admin.

[dixiegrrrrl]

2. There was someone else who was reported " Hard at work on the Pres. agenda"

but then was resigned or fired or whatever. One of the lawyers, I think.

[not fooled]

3. Here's the explanation

Steve Schmidt has been on fire lately. Here he lays out the trajectory of donnie's hirelings. Ms. Kirstjen Nielsen will no doubt be the latest example, no matter what she does. We will witness her death throes soon.

[link:https://www.thedailybeast.com/rudy-giuliani-and-donald-trump-this-will-end-badly-and-probably-soon?ref=home|]

Trump follows a clear pattern with his employees, hangers-on, camp followers, and six-degrees-of-separation edge cases who trail him like chunks of matter kicked off some fecal comet hurling across the political firmament. The pattern is abundantly evident at this point, and it’s one Rudy should realize applies to everyone in Trump’s sphere of crapulous influence.
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You’ll keep swinging, struggling, trying to gain purchase in a wilderness of tweets and confusing signals, but once Trump is bored and restless enough, the “we’re about to fire him” rumor machine gets spun up. At that point, it’s only a matter of time before Donald’s itchy Twitter finger gets the best of him and he fires you.

Credit to DonViejo for posting this link earlier today. Here's already yet another example of a dumpsterite getting the treatment.

[titaniumsalute]

4. Last time Trump said the NY Times was wrong

They said the Times report that US was exiting the Iran deal was BS. Two hours later they exited the Iran deal. LOL. So.......

[JDC]

5. This seals it. She definately drafted the letter