Trump says Shanahan out as Defense secretary nominee

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Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan has withdrawn from consideration to lead the Pentagon on a permanent basis, President Trump announced Tuesday.

Trump said in a pair of tweets that Shanahan wanted to “devote more time to his family.” The messages were posted shortly after the publication of multiple media reports describing past domestic violence incidents involving Shanahan’s family.

“Acting Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan, who has done a wonderful job, has decided not to go forward with his confirmation process so that he can devote more time to his family,” Trump tweeted.

Shanahan said in a statement that going forward with the confirmation process “would force my three children to relive a traumatic chapter in our family’s life and reopen wounds we have worked years to heal.”

https://thehill.com/policy/defense/449104-trump-says-shanahan-out-as-defense-secretary

Trump fucks up again.

[dixiegrrrrl]

1. shanahan did.

His now ex-wife was charge with domestic assault on him a few years ago, then later his teen age son used a bat on the woman, and
shanahan defended the kid.

after the Porter domestic assault led to his dismissal, looks like someone in trumps campaign managed to the concept of bad optics into trump's brain.

[COL Mustard]

2. I Can't Imagine How This Didn't Come Up in the Vetting Process

I've been involved, peripherally, in prepping several nominees for testimony, and one question is always along the lines of, Is there anything that you haven't told us that, if it were to come out, would embarrass you, your family, the Administration or your agency?

It's always there.

[dixiegrrrrl]

3. Prep???? PREP ? !!!

They don't prep any hires. That's why they keep hiring people like Scarramuci, who blow up in short order.
And trump does all he can to avoid Senate conformation, because he knows the Dems will ask the wrong kind of questions.

[Blue_true]

4. The Defense Department has pushed back on Trump several times recently.

He wants Yes People, my guess he feels that Shanahan isn't putting a foot on the necks of people at the Pentagon that are pushing back against his wild fantasies.

[JHB]

6. For Trump, vetting consists of "Did he sound good on FOX?"

If Sean or Jeanine or Fox & Friends didn't bring it up, how would he know?

[Rhiannon12866]

5. How many cabinet members has he gone through and how many positions were never filled??

Link to tweet

[malaise]

7. No CLUE

Perfect

[Rhiannon12866]

8. And that's not counting the ambassadorships still unfilled

Those I'm aware of are Egypt, Belgium and South Korea, too unimportant to bother with I guess...