ATTORNEY GENERAL/DOJ/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WILLIAM BARR: [Reporter: “Why did you fire Geoffrey Berman?”] “Well, that’s all up to the Attorney General. Attorney General Barr is working on that. That’s his department, not my department. But we have a very capable Attorney General. So that’s really up to him. I’m not involved.” -Donald Trump, “Remarks by President […]
Tag: fired
6/17/2020
BUSH [W]/JOHN BOLTON: “President Bush fired him also. Bolton is incompetent! RT @DineshDSouza Some of Bolton’s unhinged pique can be explained by his thin-skinned reaction to being zinged by a master. I recall Trump’s offhand comment that had he listened to Bolton the United States would be in, like, World War VI“ –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, […]
6/17/2020
JOHN BOLTON: “Wacko John Bolton’s ‘exceedingly tedious'(New York Times) book is made up of lies & fake stories. Said all good about me, in print, until the day I fired him. A disgruntled boring fool who only wanted to go to war. Never had a clue, was ostracized & happily dumped. What a dope!“ –Donald […]
6/4/2020
JAMES MATTIS/OBAMA: “The problem with asking for someone to give you a letter of resignation, which you do as a courtesy to help them save face, is that it is then harder to say you fired them. I did fire James Mattis. He was no good for Obama, who fired him also, and was no […]
6/4/2020
JAMES MATTIS/JOHN KELLY: “John Kelly didn’t know I was going to fire James Mattis, nor did he have any knowledge of my asking for a letter of resignation. Why would I tell him, he was not… …in my inner-circle, was totally exhausted by the job, and in the end just slinked away into obscurity. They […]
6/3/2020
BARACK OBAMA/JAMES MATTIS/MILITARY: “Probably the only thing Barack Obama & I have in common is that we both had the honor of firing Jim Mattis, the world’s most overrated General. I asked for his letter of resignation, & felt great about it. His nickname was ‘Chaos’, which I didn’t like, & changed to ‘Mad Dog’… […]
5/18/2020
GOVERNMENT/OBAMA ADMIN: “I’ve gotten rid of a lot of inspector generals; every President has. I think every President has gotten rid of probably more than I have. A lot of our people kept the Obama inspector general, and I think, generally speaking, that’s not a good thing to do, but they’ve kept them. But I […]
3/12/2017
DOJ/LEGAL/OBAMA ADMIN/PREET BHARARA: “[M]ore than seven years after taking office, Mr. [Preet] Bharara, 48, finds himself on what appears to be the losing end of a quintessential political decision. On Saturday, the Trump administration fired him after he refused to follow a Justice Department order to resign immediately. The order, which was issued on Friday […]