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Trump Burrows Loyalists Inside Government
November 10, 2020 at 11:02 am EST By Taegan Goddard
James Hohmann: Perhaps as consequential as President Trump firing Defense Secretary Mark Esper via tweet on Monday, which has been widely expected for months, was the hiring of Michael Ellis to be the National Security Agencys general counsel.
As one of the most controversial staffers in the White House over the past four years, Ellis has shown himself to be as much a staunch Trump loyalist as anyone else in the administration. But his new job means that he will no longer be a political appointee. Instead, as a civilian member of the senior executive service, he gets protections that will make it quite difficult for President-elect Joe Biden to fire him.
Burrowing down into what Trump derides as the deep state will give Ellis, a former Republican campaign operative, a powerful platform from which he could seek to complicate or undermine the incoming Democratic administrations agenda. This is a preview of the sort of behavior from Trump that many on Bidens transition team expect, and fear, during the lame-duck presidents final 71 days in power, even as he refuses to concede defeat.
As one of the most controversial staffers in the White House over the past four years, Ellis has shown himself to be as much a staunch Trump loyalist as anyone else in the administration. But his new job means that he will no longer be a political appointee. Instead, as a civilian member of the senior executive service, he gets protections that will make it quite difficult for President-elect Joe Biden to fire him.
Burrowing down into what Trump derides as the deep state will give Ellis, a former Republican campaign operative, a powerful platform from which he could seek to complicate or undermine the incoming Democratic administrations agenda. This is a preview of the sort of behavior from Trump that many on Bidens transition team expect, and fear, during the lame-duck presidents final 71 days in power, even as he refuses to concede defeat.
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Trump Burrows Loyalists Inside Government (Original Post)
babylonsister
Nov 2020
OP
Perhaps this is what Ken Dilanian was reacting to when he said, "Shit, Fuck."
ProudMNDemocrat
Nov 2020
#1
ProudMNDemocrat
(16,485 posts)1. Perhaps this is what Ken Dilanian was reacting to when he said, "Shit, Fuck."
Spazito
(49,765 posts)2. I have no doubt the Biden Administration will treat those operatives like...
the termites they are and will rid themselves of the infestation.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,280 posts)3. Didn't Fat Nixon himself just gut the Civil Service protections
for a lot of those people so he could fire them? So Biden should be able to sack that asshole, then get the rule changed back.
OhNo-Really
(3,985 posts)4. So FBI will move & vacated bldg filled with Bored trumpists
arlyellowdog
(866 posts)5. Trump Executive order
I thought Trump signed an executive order removing protection for SES
Mike 03
(16,616 posts)7. That's what I was just going to post.
I thought Trump removed protections from civil positions.
Pantagruel
(2,580 posts)6. JB should give Ellis
a basement office and no duties of consequence, IOW , make him irrelevant, don't allow him to become a saboteur .
The new , real "deep state' is being born again.
Azathoth
(4,603 posts)8. Trump fired the director of the FBI
This bullshit no longer flies. Give him an unsatisfactory rating and let his ass go.
BusyBeingBest
(8,049 posts)9. I'm sure Biden can find a way to fire that fucker's ass.
Fucking make something up. No one is un-fireable, as we learned form Donnie Dumbass.
Mc Mike
(9,107 posts)10. All trump humps out, 'legal' termination or not