Friday, May 11, 2018 11:55:17 PM
Advisers bad-mouth Nielsen as a ‘never Trumper’
"Kelly thinks he's saving U.S. from disaster, calls Trump 'idiot,' say White House staffers"
The president, who demands the loyalty of his aides, is increasingly disenchanted with his homeland security chief.
By ANDREW RESTUCCIA and ELIANA JOHNSON
05/11/2018 04:28 PM EDT
Homeland Security chief Kirstjen Nielsen is the latest senior administration official to bear the brunt of the president’s obsession with keeping “never Trump”
Republicans out of his administration. | Alex Wong/Getty Images
President Donald Trump’s frustration with Kirstjen Nielsen, which boiled over Wednesday in a Cabinet meeting tirade, has been growing for weeks — stoked by associates who have privately made the case that she’s a closeted “never Trumper” who still doesn’t fully back his agenda.
Trump’s advisers have been increasingly criticizing the Homeland Security chief in private conversations with the president, arguing that she isn’t doing enough to improve border security and noting that she wasn’t a vocal Trump supporter during the campaign, three people familiar with the internal discussions told POLITICO.
As a result, Trump has come to believe that Nielsen — who considered quitting this week after the president berated her over an uptick in migrant arrests — is not focused enough on carrying out his immigration agenda, one of the people said. The president has told friends that he believes chief of staff John Kelly, with whom he has a strained relationship, foisted his deputy Nielsen upon him, according to two of the people, complaining that he didn’t know what he was getting.
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“The department is crumbling, and she is actively being undermined by Trump appointees, and career folks simply do not like her,” said one former Bush administration official who worked with Nielsen, who added: “No one on the outside has any sympathy for her. She treated people the same way she’s being treated.”
Annie Karni contributed to this report.
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/05/11/kirstjen-nielsen-never-trumper-white-house-loyalty-583914
Seems the word unstable still fits this floundering and angry non-presidential administration.
Donald Trump's homeland security secretary 'nearly quit' after president berated her
Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen has reportedly drafted her resignation letter
Emily Shugerman New York @eshugerman 19 hours ago
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/donald-trump-homeland-security-kirstjen-nielsen-berated-immigration-mexico-a8347761.html
"Kelly thinks he's saving U.S. from disaster, calls Trump 'idiot,' say White House staffers"
The president, who demands the loyalty of his aides, is increasingly disenchanted with his homeland security chief.
By ANDREW RESTUCCIA and ELIANA JOHNSON
05/11/2018 04:28 PM EDT
Homeland Security chief Kirstjen Nielsen is the latest senior administration official to bear the brunt of the president’s obsession with keeping “never Trump”
Republicans out of his administration. | Alex Wong/Getty Images
President Donald Trump’s frustration with Kirstjen Nielsen, which boiled over Wednesday in a Cabinet meeting tirade, has been growing for weeks — stoked by associates who have privately made the case that she’s a closeted “never Trumper” who still doesn’t fully back his agenda.
Trump’s advisers have been increasingly criticizing the Homeland Security chief in private conversations with the president, arguing that she isn’t doing enough to improve border security and noting that she wasn’t a vocal Trump supporter during the campaign, three people familiar with the internal discussions told POLITICO.
As a result, Trump has come to believe that Nielsen — who considered quitting this week after the president berated her over an uptick in migrant arrests — is not focused enough on carrying out his immigration agenda, one of the people said. The president has told friends that he believes chief of staff John Kelly, with whom he has a strained relationship, foisted his deputy Nielsen upon him, according to two of the people, complaining that he didn’t know what he was getting.
[to the end]
“The department is crumbling, and she is actively being undermined by Trump appointees, and career folks simply do not like her,” said one former Bush administration official who worked with Nielsen, who added: “No one on the outside has any sympathy for her. She treated people the same way she’s being treated.”
Annie Karni contributed to this report.
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/05/11/kirstjen-nielsen-never-trumper-white-house-loyalty-583914
Seems the word unstable still fits this floundering and angry non-presidential administration.
Donald Trump's homeland security secretary 'nearly quit' after president berated her
Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen has reportedly drafted her resignation letter
Emily Shugerman New York @eshugerman 19 hours ago
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/donald-trump-homeland-security-kirstjen-nielsen-berated-immigration-mexico-a8347761.html
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