A HUD Official Once Criticized Trump. Now Hes an Ex-Official

[struggle4progress]

By MAGGIE HABERMAN and YAMICHE ALCINDOR
FEB. 16, 2017

WASHINGTON — A top aide to President Trump’s housing secretary nominee, Ben Carson, was fired and led out of the department’s headquarters by security on Wednesday after writings critical of Mr. Trump surfaced in his vetting, according to two people briefed on the matter.

Shermichael Singleton, who was one of the few black conservatives in the Trump administration, had been working at the Department of Housing and Urban Development since Jan. 23 as a senior adviser. He was preparing a cross-country tour for Mr. Carson, who is expected to be confirmed by the Senate this month.

But according to the two people briefed, Mr. Singleton’s background check had not been completed. As it was being finished this week, Mr. Trump’s advisers turned up public writings by Mr. Singleton that appeared during the later stages of the campaign in which he was deeply critical of the candidate.

“My party in particular has allowed itself to be taken over by someone who claims to be a Republican but doesn’t represent any of our values, principles or traditions,” he wrote in The Hill in October 2016 ...

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/16/us/politics/shermichael-singleton-housing-urban-development.html

[dalton99a]

1. The reign of terror begins.

[Eliot Rosewater]

2. Escorted out? You MOTHERFUCKER

[Cha]

5. +1

[msongs]

8. pretty standard these days. no chance to get personal belongings, just marched out. same in corporat

america.

[Eliot Rosewater]

10. I never heard this happening in 8 yrs of Obama

[lapfog_1]

3. Loyalty tests

for all federal employees... that's coming folks.

Starting at the Intelligent Agencies.

Probably administered by DynCorp with polygraphs

[BannonsLiver]

4. You lie down with dogs...

[TeamPooka]

6. Expect Citizen Loyalty Oaths to the Trump soon. nt

[MrScorpio]

7. Another black conservative who didn't always toe the line

Of course, they were canned.

This is why they always pander to right wing white supremacy.

[KeepItReal]

9. Omorosa told the world, point blank, his detractors are gonna feel it.

You know they are laughing their asses off at this firing.