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Kirsten Nielsen has quit (“resigned”). Jake Tapper was watching.

2/ …according to the source, but rather was going there with an agenda.

But the source said, it is believed within the administration that President Trump will be pushing for personnel changes and there are others afoot beyond the ICE director nominee who was pulled Friday…

— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) April 7, 2019

3/ The source notes President Trump‘s frustration with the current asylum laws, and his desire for individuals who work for the administration to block central American asylum seekers from entering the United States —- contrary to the laws on the books that allow their entry.

— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) April 7, 2019

He’s frustrated with the laws, and he wants people who work for him to break them.

So, she quit or Trump told her to “resign.”

A senior administration official tell CNN that DHS secretary Nielsen‘s meeting with President Trump at the White House did not go well and she is considering resigning. Stay tuned as this is a developing story —

— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) April 7, 2019

And there it is … https://t.co/nEwWVjokU7

— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) April 7, 2019

2/ Secretary Nielsen “believed the situation was becoming untenable with the President becoming increasingly unhinged about the border crisis and making unreasonable and even impossible requests,” a senior administration official tells CNN.

— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) April 7, 2019

So that’s where we are.

3 Responses to “The meeting didn’t go well”

#1
Rob
April 7, 2019 at 6:31 pm

Best tweet…

https://twitter.com/forbiddencomma/status/1115036602668077056
#2
Kevin Henderson
April 7, 2019 at 9:06 pm

That’s where we’ve been. Integrity is dead the White House. It has been since Trump. Trump has no loyal supporters, only those who remain because they think he’s entertaining.
#3
Omar
April 7, 2019 at 11:20 pm

… only those who remain because they think he’s entertaining.

Entertaining? A new dimension there altogether.

I dunno. Something in the discussion here to date has caused me to recall this from Friedman::

Look around the world and not only do you see a democratic recession — the number of democracies abandoning their democratic bona fides with sham elections is steadily mounting — but you see something much more grotesque: Leaders are grabbing power for life, murdering or jailing even the mildest of critics and shamelessly building coalitions with openly racist and bigoted parties.

Most important, they’re doing it with utter impunity — confident that either no one is watching or no one will meaningfully call them out.

This is what happens when people think America isn’t looking, doesn’t care or worse, has a president, himself having uttered over 9,000 lies and misleading statements, who has zero moral authority to call out others. When it comes to being a global watchdog that tries to enforce some basic norms of decency, America under Trump is out to lunch — and a lot of people have figured that out, and so anything goes.

http://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/05/opinion/trump-netanyahu.html

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