National security official Mira Ricardel, whose firing was sought by first lady's office, will step
Source: CNN
In a statement Wednesday evening, the White House said the deputy national security adviser is leaving her post and will transition to a new role within the Administration.
The news comes one day after the office of first lady Melania Trump called for Ricardels firing. The President is grateful for Ms. Ricardels continued service to the American people and her steadfast pursuit of his national security priorities, White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said.
This is a developing story. It will be updated.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2018/11/14/national-security-official-mira-ricardel-whose-firing-was-sought-by-first-ladys-office-will-step-down-white-house-says/?utm_term=.3468ab43aa8c
muriel_volestrangler
(101,262 posts)Izzy Blue
(282 posts)15,000 a month for signing an NDA and basically be put out in the White Houses pasture, just like Keith Schiller and what Omarosa was offered (tape).
Like Melania will let her have any administration connections.
Her passive-aggressive acts are nauseating.
Roadside Attraction
(238 posts). . . read a biography of Marie Antoinette. Pay special attention to the way it ends.
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grantcart
(53,061 posts)The two
keithbvadu2
(36,640 posts)Haggis for Breakfast
(6,831 posts)National Security Funds were spent while Mel-mac was in Africa. Remember that $95,000 tab ?
(And something else about seating on a plane ???)
Canuckman
(2 posts)Ricardel's father was a member of the notorious Croatian Ustasha regime in WWII which was one of Hitler's most fervent and loyal allies. The Croat Ustasha committed genocide against Croatia's minority Serbian and Jewish communities in WWII and when the regime collapsed, many Ustasha members quietly escaped to new lives in the West, especially Argentina and Paraguay. Go Figure.
She no doubt developed her hard line Conservative views from her Nazi family background and I bet likely defends her father and his Ustasha like to this day. They simply argue, "they fought Communists and were freedom fighters..." Yah right. Exactly what Hitler called his storm troopers when they attacked the Soviet Union in 1941.
I suspect Melania, being of Slovene heritage and whose own father fought for the Slovene Partisans in WWI, is ideologically totally opposite Ricardel.
Good move. Toss the Ustahsa out of the White House. Finally one good move by Trump.
canetoad
(17,135 posts)Post a link to source/s confirming her father's membership of the Ustacha?