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Trump Removes Anthony Scaramucci From Communications Director Role (nytimes.com)
Maggie Haberman, Michael D. Shear, and Glenn Thrush reporting for The New York Times: President Trump has decided to remove Anthony Scaramucci from his position as communications director (Editor's note: the link could be paywalled; alternative source), three people close to the decision said Monday, relieving him just days after Mr. Scaramucci unloaded a crude verbal tirade against other senior members of the president's senior staff. Mr. Scaramucci's abrupt removal came just 10 days after the wealthy New York financier was brought on to the West Wing staff, a move that convulsed an already chaotic White House and led to the departures of Sean Spicer, the former press secretary, and Reince Priebus, the president's first chief of staff. From a report: Anthony Scaramucci will be leaving his role as White House Communications Director," the statement read. "Mr. Scaramucci felt it was best to give Chief of Staff John Kelly a clean slate and the ability to build his own team. We wish him all the best." Press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders is scheduled to brief the press corps, on-camera, at 12:45 pm PST. Scaramucci was given the job on Friday, June 21, and by Thursday, July 27, became something of a national laughingstock when The New Yorker reported his profanity-laced conversation with the magazine's Washington correspondent the night before. He was hired by the president to take charge of a communications operation in disarray, and his hiring coincided with the departure of White House press secretary Sean Spicer. Scaramucci, in his conversation with The New Yorker's Ryan Lizza, was extremely critical of White House chief strategist Steve Bannon and predicted, correctly, that then-chief of staff Reince Priebus would be removed from his position. Following the publication of Lizza's article, it became an open question in Washington whether Scaramucci would keep his job.
About half of them were executive orders
You mean like those same illegal and unconstitutional executive orders Obama had done that Republicans were having apoplectic seizures over?
As I always say, "When your guy does it, it's great. When the other guy does it, it's a travesty."
We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
...a political story is posted, exempted from any and all usual Slashdot posting processes.
I've submitted stories and had them posted within the hour. It all depends on the timing.
Also, for all those complaining about posting a political story in politics.slashdot.com, in this case it's because slashdot doesn't have a comedy.slashdot.com. Because this administration is truly a comedy of errors. The difference is that, unlike Shakespeare's play, the main character will not have a happy ending.
"Transparent" is a shit show that trades on every stereotype going. A man in drag is NOT a transsexual.
Prosecute her for what? Losing the election?
I don't mean to sound flippant, but that is a possibility. Countries with a shaky grasp of democracy do it all the time, Pakistan being a fairly good example.
It seems a logical extension of the winner takes all mind-set that seems to have taken over US politics recently.