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BREAKING:
@CBSNews
has learned Homeland Security secretary Kirstjen Nielsen is meeting with President Trump this evening to submit her resignation,
@PaulaReidCBS
reports.
Link to tweet
UPDATE FROM Rump:
@realDonaldTrump
7m7 minutes ago
Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen will be leaving her position, and I would like to thank her for her service....
@realDonaldTrump
....I am pleased to announce that Kevin McAleenan, the current U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner, will become Acting Secretary for @DHSgov. I have confidence that Kevin will do a great job!
Link to tweet
Link to tweet
Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen was reportedly shown the door Sunday, during a meeting with President Donald Trump. Its part of a larger overhaul of the entire department at the hands of top aide Stephen Miller, CBS News reported.
Nielsens expected departure is a part of a massive DHS overhaul engineered and directed by top Trump adviser Stephen Miller, according to a senior U.S. official, the report said. Its unclear whether Nielsen is deciding to resign voluntarily, or whether she has been pressured to resign. Nielsen has served as DHS secretary since December 2017, and questions about how much longer she might last have swirled for months, as the president continues to articulate his frustrations about illegal immigration.....
https://www.rawstory.com/2019/04/ousting-kirstjen-nielsen-part-stephen-millers-overhaul-extreme-officials-cbs/
Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)for contempt of court.
hlthe2b
(102,297 posts)first female, yet first of many Trumpsters charged. Maybe Karma can do what justice system will not.
PatrickforO
(14,578 posts)Each person must bear the full weight, eventually, of all their actions - and that includes thoughts, words and deeds. The trouble is we never see it because it happens in subsequent lifetimes.
At least that is my own belief. I'm not asking you to believe as I do, though.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,740 posts)Miigwech
(3,741 posts)or, she can't bow to Satan any longer ... 46,000 child separations. She is done and should spend the rest of her life (out of jail) helping children. Maybe then she can fit through the eye of a needle.
RVN VET71
(2,692 posts)Kirstjen sold hers for a chance to dance with power.
politicaljunkie41910
(3,335 posts)Poor thing. This is what happens when you make a deal with the Devil. There is no way you can keep the Devil satisfied; you just have to keep selling your soul to him over and over again. How many more will follow in her footsteps until they just cannot continue to do his crazy ass bidding for him, while they cannot continue to look themselves in the mirror any more. When will they learn that when Drumpf comes calling for that meeting in the Oval where he wants to offer you a job, the only correct response is to run like your life depends on it. Run Forest Run.
gopiscrap
(23,761 posts)dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)Meanwhile, Miller's fascist ideology continues. I sure hope there is a subpoena with his name on it lying around.
dhol82
(9,353 posts)Might make him more of a mensch.
hedda_foil
(16,375 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,740 posts)Miigwech
(3,741 posts)WheelWalker
(8,955 posts)Call me crazy... my kids do.
pnwmom
(108,980 posts)lost migrant children, in addition to the 2800 they've finally located.
machoneman
(4,007 posts)to at least rejoin kids with parents after they got deported.
Where they so cruel as to NOT do so on purpose?
Ah, silly me!
I answered my own question. Sorry!
dlk
(11,569 posts)uponit7771
(90,347 posts)Leghorn21
(13,524 posts)Thats one foul human right there, just FOUL
vlyons
(10,252 posts)A shitty job for sure. Although any Trump job would be a shitty job, but locking kids up has got to be one of the worst. Dare we hope that she will squeal about Trump's criminality? Probably not. I hope Congress drags her ass back in to testify. They ought to send her to the Hague for crimes against humanity. Send Trump too.
watoos
(7,142 posts)to 101 Dalmations?
uponit7771
(90,347 posts)Liberal Jesus Freak
(1,451 posts)Good news.
John Fante
(3,479 posts)For the rest of her days. It ain't ever coming off.
I like that.
BadgerMom
(2,771 posts)John Fante
(3,479 posts)is loathsome in their own right.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,740 posts)spinbaby
(15,090 posts)Trump wanted things that were too evil even for her.
Solly Mack
(90,773 posts)But she'll be as free as Bush and Cheney (and all the rest).
Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,501 posts)lkinwi
(1,477 posts)sinkingfeeling
(51,460 posts)sandensea
(21,639 posts)DHS will probably go from Eva Braun Nielsen, to something like this:
AdamGG
(1,292 posts)The cadre of people around Trump have nearly all turned over in 2 years, all becoming more sycophantic and extreme, and the original group was horrible to start with.
Dem2theMax
(9,651 posts)They always are. Drumpf really knows how to pick 'em.
sandensea
(21,639 posts)She'll probably buy a lakeside inn in the Andes.
machoneman
(4,007 posts)to South America. Admit she look good for her age though......must be all those kid's livers she ate!
sandensea
(21,639 posts)I'll tell you though, when Hitler said "we lost the war; but shall win the peace," the Cheeto regime is exactly what he meant.
Hitler felt the average U.S. voter was naive, gullible, and easily manipulated with racial fears (the "browning of America" ) or red baiting.
It's certainly true of most of our GOP friends and neighbors. The things you hear from those people, day and day out.
UniteFightBack
(8,231 posts)have the good sense to resign or she would of done it long ago.
This woman is irredeemable as far as I'm concerned. All the lying. She is foul.
PatrickforO
(14,578 posts)tried.
BumRushDaShow
(129,127 posts)that he wanted someone "tougher" on immigration or some such nonsense.
sheshe2
(83,793 posts)Iliyah
(25,111 posts)Kelly was terrible. Nielson was and still is horrible. The next one will be even more so. Ugh. Get rid of this whole administration, cabinet and DOJ.
There is evidence of this WH traitorous actions alongwith the Republican party.
DesertRat
(27,995 posts)Leghorn21
(13,524 posts)the current U.S. Customs and Border Protection
Commissioner, will become Acting Secretary for
@DHSgov. I have confidence that Kevin will do a great job!
Link to tweet
DesertRat
(27,995 posts)dewsgirl
(14,961 posts)NewJeffCT
(56,828 posts)or David Clarke
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)And Trump is avoiding getting the agency heads confirmed by hiring them as "acting" heads.
So he and Miller have a freer hand in their despicable policies.
You just KNOW Yertle has been telling him how to avoid Congressional oversight.
Leghorn21
(13,524 posts)her position, and I would like to thank her for her service....
Link to tweet
demmiblue
(36,865 posts)snort
(2,334 posts)elfin
(6,262 posts)Past incompetence (but not necessarily primary heartlessness) shown in Katrina, but parlayed her Repub. connections, mainly General Kelly to upward and more powerful positions.
She may not have wanted this gig, but Kelly wanted her there to have someone in Homeland under his influence after he left it to take the chief of Staff. She is close with him and his family, to the point of sharing holidays with them. (She may not have her own family - don't know.)
She is also a Repub., but this assignment got away from her, especially after Kelly's influence waned with the WH.
Not cutting her slack, because she should have quit long, long ago. She did a horrible job in a horrible job.
joe_stampingbull
(165 posts)I laugh!
cp
(6,636 posts)Still won't protect her from prison.
Mike Nelson
(9,960 posts)
the next one will be worse.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,740 posts)More of a Dr. Mengele than a Nurse Ratched.
lunatica
(53,410 posts)She should be unemployable and unemployed for life.
happybird
(4,608 posts)volstork
(5,402 posts)someone ten times worse.
Fritz Walter
(4,291 posts)Amsterdam is nice.
So are Rotterdam, Utrecht, and Delft, especially when the tulips are in bloom!
She should definitely plan on a visit to the Hague. And stay awhile...
Whats the difference ? Does anyone think her replacement will be any better ?
LiberalArkie
(15,719 posts)Kirstjen Nielsen
United States Secretary of Homeland Security
Kirstjen Michele Nielsen is an American attorney and notorious child abuser who held several positions within the Trump administration before serving as the sixth United States Secretary of Homeland Security. She is a former Principal Deputy White House Chief of Staff t
Kurt V.
(5,624 posts)LiberalArkie
(15,719 posts)Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)Or she quit for being told to do something inhumane?
TeamPooka
(24,229 posts)It will be a long time, if ever, that Trump nominates a real replacement
Roland99
(53,342 posts)gademocrat7
(10,660 posts)Nielsen should be tried for crimes against humanity.
Grokenstein
(5,725 posts)Just like he had confidence in Ilsa, She-Chihuahua of the SS! Note to whichever grown-up wrote that for TheDolt: He's pretended to say that about EVERY asshat he's brought into his Council of Fascist Toadies.
LudwigPastorius
(9,155 posts)I'm sure Stevie and Trump will find some "very fine people" to fill the roles. People preferably in khaki dockers carrying tiki torches and chanting rousing slogans. Nein?
llmart
(15,540 posts)The fact that a woman condoned what was done to these children make sit all the worse. If there is a hell, she belongs there.
rpannier
(24,330 posts)procon
(15,805 posts)mess that Trump created is going to become a whole lot worse.