Tapper says Nielsen says DT is "unhinged" and making "impossible requests."

[pnwmom]

Sounds like nothing new. Good luck to her replacement!

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1/ In California on Friday, a senior administration official tells CNN, President Trump told border agents he wanted them to stop letting people cross the border, despite the fact that Central American asylum seekers according to US law can do so.

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2/ Secretary Nielsen “believed the situation was becoming untenable with the President becoming increasingly unhinged about the border crisis and making unreasonable and even impossible requests,” a senior administration official tells CNN.

[thegoose]

1. Yawn. Really?

[Power 2 the People]

33. +1

[Fred Sandman]

44. On the contrary....

folks submitting to insanity because of its repetition is exactly what fascists count on.

[malaise]

2. The vile MAGAcretin thinks he is above the law

He has attacked everyone who tries to enforce the law including judges.
It is time to ITTMF!!

[Mike Nelson]

3. These Trump leakers...

… need to step up to the camera and speak directly - not leak! Are you reading this Kellyanne? Hint... hint...

[riversedge]

4. Here is her letter of resignation.......

Link to tweet

[pnwmom]

6. blah, blah, blah

[Texasgal]

11. LOL!

I was just gonna say that! It's like Charlie Browns teacher...blah...blah...blah!

[SunSeeker]

58. What? No "Dear" in front of Mr. President?

[Tipperary]

5. "Unhinged." Ya think?

What a group he has around him. It is sad, and terrifying.

[Celerity]

31. yep

[Miigwech]

7. Nielson GET OUT IN FRONT OF THE CAMERAS

and tell the world what you know about trump

[thegoose]

9. Absolutely

Why don't these assholes say what has happened to them????

[UniteFightBack]

15. I would be making a heart felt plea and telling all. I would want to be let back into society.

Unreal.

[dalton99a]

37. There is a high-paying job in private industry waiting for her

perhaps in the private prison industry, or at a manufacturer that makes children's cages

[machoneman]

38. Hey, she could be the new face of the American Nazi Party!

No shit!

[mnmoderatedem]

12. A-fucking-men

quit with the friggin' niceties when you know damn good and well what the situation really is.

[CrispyQ]

26. Specifically, tell the world what you know about the kid & parent separation at the border.

Would someone just fall on their fucking sword, for crissakes?! We are separating families at our southern border. We are losing our country!! Every day this administration is in power, the more damage to our institutions is done.

[Iggo]

40. Tell us what you did with the little girls. Where are they?

That's all I ever want or need from that nazi piece of shit.

[Heartstrings]

56. Yes!

All you hear about are the boys....where are all the girls?

[spanone]

8. It took her 2 years to figure out he was unhinged? The birther bullshit didn't bother her?

oh, right, she's a republicon.

[UniteFightBack]

17. Things are getting so bad that even the hard line sycophants are saying he's unhinged? I think

that should be spread around.

[elleng]

20. MORE than MERELY 'spread around.'

MOVE WITH IT!

[Takket]

10. that moment when.............

the woman who tore babies from their mother's arms and stuffed them in cages for you is "not evil enough".

Haul her ass in front of congress. There must be SOMETHING she can be charged with.

[Retrograde]

13. If only there were a provision in the Constitution

that would allow cabinet members to do something about an "increasingly unhinged" president

[elleng]

16. She sure as hell should have worked on the 25th amendment.

The 25th Amendment, proposed by Congress and ratified by the states in the aftermath of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, provides the procedures for replacing the president or vice president in the event of death, removal, resignation, or incapacitation.

[elleng]

19. I HEREBY PROPOSE, that now that she said as much as she did,

she and others MUST be encouraged to MOVE with it.

[tanyev]

22. Do Acting Secretaries count as actual cabinet members for that situation?

If not, that’s incredibly conveeeeenient for the Asshole in Chief.

[liberalhistorian]

46. I'm beginning to suspect the unthinkable,

which is that Agent Orange is deliberately ousting these cabinet members so that he can replace them with complete hard-line crazy sycophants whom he can rely on to protect him from any attempts to enact Article 25. Terrifyingly, that's what it's beginning to look like, especially after his wanting to replace the head of ICE for not being "tough" enough when that current director is Nazi enough as it is.

[ck4829]

50. I know, right?

[Cousin Dupree]

14. Situation untenable. Trump unhinged and unreasonable.

She just figured that out?? Wonder how she’s going to feel when the dust settles and she finally realizes how she will be remembered. And what she did for that beast.

[dlk]

18. So, Tell Us Something New...

[GoCubsGo]

21. It's going to get worse as the spirochetes consume what's left of his brain matter.

I sure hope he is removed before he blows us all up.

[Blue_true]

23. Vipers biting vipers. Stand back, keep your legs clear.

Maybe Trump can find himself a Barr for homeland security, the blonde Nazi packed it in, not even she could go where Trump wanted her to go.

[rpannier]

27. Some fine, upstanding, fundamentalist, christofascist will happily step in

[Blue_true]

30. That is what I am afraid of. nt

[Mr.Bill]

35. Of course.

Has anyone who quit the Trump administration been replaced by anyone better?

[rpannier]

48. You could probably make a case that Pompeo is better than Rex

But that isn't hard since I don't think Rex ever did anything other than spend money on remodeling and angering people with stupid comments

[Honeycombe8]

24. So now we find out. What happens when the President tells Border Agents to do something illegal?

Do they do it? If so, do they face criminal charges when the country is back in legal hands?

Are there any repercussions to a President giving illegal commands? If not, then the President is above the law, isn't he?

This is what happened in Germany. When illegal commands were given to govt workers & the military, they obeyed. So this is how it happened. Little by little, Germany tested the waters. As Hitler got away with things and found they'd obey even inhumane orders, the flood gates were opened.

[orangecrush]

25. Great post.

[Honeycombe8]

53. Thanks!

I try to keep references to you-know-what to a minimum, but this was so strong in my mind, the similarity.

[gordianot]

29. You nailed it, this is the cross roads.

[DENVERPOPS]

52. I'm sure they will all say they were just acting on orders!

I'm sure they will all say they were just acting on orders!

Much like Joseph Goebbels and Joseph Mengele tried to do........

Or more recently Oliver North and that entire group.............

[Honeycombe8]

54. Yep.

And a bit of a predicament for the border agents. But if it were me, I know what I'd be forced to do, which is to refuse. If only for the self-serving reason that the ones who pay are always the ones a the bottom. Not the top dogs.

It's hard to walk away from your career, though. It would ruin lives, retirement, benefits. They have families.

All caused by a President asking them to do something illegal. He won't give it a second thought, and will just move on to the next order.

[Guilded Lilly]

28. She does not get a pass, or a thank-you for your service...

But I am sure she will be replaced by an even more disgusting anti-humanity ass kisser.
He seemingly has a bottomless pit of soulless monsters to appoint.

[Harker]

32. The bunker scene is nigh. n/t

[smirkymonkey]

34. Hmm. Imagine that.

[Perseus]

36. "making impossible requests."????? Really? So caging children was not an impossible request?

Amazing!

Most people feel that we have reached a point that nothing from this administration surprises us anymore, but not for me, I am always surprised at the low levels these people reach every day, my brain doesn't work in that realm so every time they do one of these I do get surprised that a human being can be that evil.

What is wrong with these people? Where do they come from? This is not normal, not even in a bizarro world...As I remember from the comic books, Bizarro people were warriors but they took care of their own, they loved bizarro people, the people in the administration come from an uglier place we may not know about, they are not normal.

[pangaia]

39. DUH, ya think, Nielsen?"

You dumb shit.

[NNadir]

41. She must not be the brightest bulb on the block to use the word "becoming" in this context.

He's been nuts forever.

[Marcuse]

42. Calling Chairman Cummings....

[Pepsidog]

43. No shit

[2naSalit]

45. Just for the FORMER Sec...

I've always wanted to use this emojithingy...

[DFW]

47. Trump "becoming increasingly unhinged"

I guess if it's to the point where even Nielsen could no longer ignore it, then it has really reached crisis level!

[ck4829]

49. K&R

[True Blue American]

51. Ne comfort

The new ,” Acting,” is an Obama holdover.

[matt819]

55. FFS

Good guy, Jake Tapper. I don't buy it, however.

Nielsen believed that she was on the side of the angels, doing god's work (to continue the metaphor). Her comment is more about bureaucracy than anything else.

Wanna bet she will stand by her man if subpoenaed to testify to Congress? This is not a good person, any more than her predecessor, John Kelly, was a good person. These are true believers, RW extremists.

And if I'm wrong and she spills the beans and sings like a canary (a post full of cliches), I'll eat these pixels.

[lagomorph777]

57. Gas chambers and ovens to make more room in the baby cages?