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brooklynite

(94,520 posts)
Thu Apr 25, 2019, 02:51 PM Apr 2019

Dems launch probe into 'unprecedented' Trump firings at Homeland Security

Source: The Hill

Three top House Democrats on Thursday launched an investigation into what they described as “unprecedented firings” at the Department of Homeland Security.

House chairmen Elijah Cummings (D-Md.), Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) and Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) wrote a letter to Acting Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan demanding communications related to the departure or potential departure of former Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, former Secret Service Director Randolph Ailes and other officials.

“We are deeply concerned that the firing and forced resignation of these officials puts the security of the American people at risk,” the lawmakers wrote. “We are also concerned that the President may have removed DHS officials because they refused his demands to violate federal immigration law and judicial orders.”

“Moreover, we are concerned by reports that, even as he has removed the Department’s leadership, the President has sought to empower a White House aide, Stephen Miller, to ‘be in charge of handling all immigration and border affairs,'” the Democrats wrote.

Read more: https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/440694-dems-launch-probe-into-unprecedented-trump-firings-at-homeland

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Dems launch probe into 'unprecedented' Trump firings at Homeland Security (Original Post) brooklynite Apr 2019 OP
This is how we take Trump down RandySF Apr 2019 #1
All of this grinding away MUST, MUST, MUST be made public somehow. pangaia Apr 2019 #2
Isn't this how Hitler put Hermann Goering in control? louis-t Apr 2019 #3
House Democrats are the only thing stopping Trump from being a dictator. nt SunSeeker Apr 2019 #4
I'm glad that they are doing this, but leftieNanner Apr 2019 #5
Then you start throwing their asses in jail. murielm99 Apr 2019 #7
Yes ma'am! leftieNanner Apr 2019 #8
I see white tRump did there. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Apr 2019 #6

pangaia

(24,324 posts)
2. All of this grinding away MUST, MUST, MUST be made public somehow.
Thu Apr 25, 2019, 03:01 PM
Apr 2019

And grind away at making it public,, the same thing over and over and over.....

leftieNanner

(15,084 posts)
5. I'm glad that they are doing this, but
Thu Apr 25, 2019, 03:37 PM
Apr 2019

This White House will ignore the letter and/or deny the request for documents and testimony.

They will not respond to ANYTHING any more. EVER!

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