Trump’s Office of White House personnel is a joke

Trump’s Office of White House personnel is a joke

The president has pulled the nomination of Paul Ingrassia to be head of his Office of Special Counsel. Ingrassia had previous tweeted a number of racist text messages that became public. Ingrassia had texted to a group of fellow Republicans that “MLK Jr. was the 1960s George Floyd and his ‘holiday’ should be ended and tossed into the seventh circle of hell where it belongs.” Ingrassia also texted using an Italian slur for blacks, “No moulignon holidays … From kwanza [sic] to mlk jr day to black history month to Juneteenth. Every single one needs to be eviscerated.” He also said that he had a “Nazi streak.” No wonder that his nomination was pulled. The question is why was he nominated in the first place?

As one conservative commentator put it “Ingrassia had no business being anywhere near a federal job, let alone a Senate-confirmed position running an office charged with enforcing federal ethics rules.” Indeed, the the republican party should not be a welcoming place for people like Ingrassia or the young fools that were texting vulgar messages back and forth engaging in racism, misogyny and antisemitism. JD Vance (not one of my favorite people) even made excuses for them saying “The reality is that kids do stupid things, especially young boys. Telling “edgy,” “offensive” and “stupid” jokes is “what kids do.” Pardon me, Mr Vice President. That is BS. Being vile and crude is not what smart kids do, only stupid ones. It is no excuse to say “Well the left does it” as so sharply demonstrated with all the vile, vulgar and demonic comments following the Kirk assassination. I find Vance’s remark just one of many examples why I think he is not qualified to be president. I want these fools not to be in the same party that I am in, much like my parents were republicans by default given all the rabid racists in the democrat party of the old south.

The president who has a penchant for firing people needs to fire someone at White House personnel. In my experience, presidential nominees are vetted prior to be nominated. When I was being considered to be on the first National Credit Union Administration Board, I was interviewed by White House personnel. That individual turned out to have been babysat while growing up in Baton Rouge by the wife of my dear friend the late Dr. Bob Kirk who was the University of Tennessee’s first black tenure track professor. After I passed muster, he told me that he was recommending me for the position but before the nomination could be announced, that I would be vetted by the FBI who then interviewed my colleagues, friends and references. Even my neighbors were interviewed. One called me wondering why the FBI was asking questions about me. I assured them it was for a possible nomination by the White House, nothing more.

Didn’t they do this with Ingrassia? Apparently not. This has got to be embarrassing to the president and I wonder if heads rolled at the office of White House personnel. This president needs to clean up his own house and tell these staffers that they are fired. The president should be embarrassed.

Yet this, of course, is not the first time one of the president’s nominees has been withdrawn. The media wants you to think that the republicans in the senate are rubber stamps for whatever the president wants. In many cases this is true but when it is apparent that a nominee cannot be confirmed by the republican majority, the name is withdrawn. In this case, the president is setting records for Ingrassia makes an astounding number 49 withdrawals. No other president has even come close.

Newsweek has even listed them:

1. Adam Boehler (special presidential envoy for hostage affairs)
2. Alan Boehme (assistant secretary of Veterans Affairs)
3. Alina Habba (U.S. attorney for New Jersey)
4. Brent Sadler (administrator of Maritime Administration)
5. Brian Quintenz (chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission)
6. Charlton Allen (special counsel)
7. Cheryl Mason (assistant secretary of Veterans Affairs)
8. Chris Pratt (assistant secretary of State)
9. Christopher Gilbert (U.S. attorney for the Western District of Virginia)
10. David Eisner (assistant secretary of Energy)
11. David Rader (assistant secretary of Commerce)
12. David Weldon (director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
13. Edward Martin (U.S. attorney for Washington, D.C.)
14. Elise Stefanik (United Nations ambassador)
15. Erwin Antoni (Labor Statistics commissioner)
16. Frank Bisignano (Social Security commissioner)
17. Gregory Autrey (NASA CFO) 
18. Janette Nesheiwat (medical director in the regular corps of the Public Health Service)
19. Jared Isaacman (NASA administrator)
20. Jared Novelly (New Zealand ambassador)
21. Jason De Sena Trennert (assistant secretary of the Treasury)
22. Jeffrey Bornstein (under secretary of Defense)
23. Jeffrey Kaufman (member of the Farm Credit Administration Board)
24. Jennifer Locetta (alternative representative of the U.S. for special political affairs in the U.N.)
25. Jennifer Mascott (general counsel for Education Department)
26. Jennifer Wicks McNamara (Vietnam ambassador)
27. Jeremy Ellis (inspector general, Department of Housing and Urban Development)
28. John Bartrum (assistant secretary of Veterans Affairs)
29. John Lavalle (governor of the U.S. Postal Service)
30. John Simermeyer (chairman of National Indian Gaming Commission)
31. Jonathan McKernan (director of Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection)
32. Karen Brazell (under secretary for benefits at Department of Veterans Affairs)
33. Karen Evans (under secretary for management at the Department of Homeland Security)
34. Kathleen Sgamma (Bureau of Land Management director)
35. Kevin O’Farrell (assistant secretary at Department of Education)
36. Landon Heid (assistant secretary of Commerce)
37. Leo Brent Bozell III (CEO of U.S. Agency for Global Media)
38. Luke Petit (assistant secretary of the Treasury)
39. Mark Brnovich (Serbian ambassador)
40. Michael Duffy (under secretary of Defense for acquisition and sustainment)
41. Michael Jensen (assistant secretary of Defense)
42. Penny Schwinn (Deputy Secretary of Education)
43. Ryan Cote (assistant secretary of Veterans Affairs)
44. Sara Carter (National Drug Control Policy director)
45. Stella Herrell (assistant secretary of Agriculture)
46. Terrence Gorman (chairman of board of veterans’ appeals)
47. Theodore Cooke (commissioner of reclamation)
48. Yehuda Kaploun (special envoy to monitor and combat antisemitism)
49. Ingrassia

Why isn’t Matt Gaetz on this list?