The most sycophantic administration. Ever.
Three types of people lose their jobs in the Trump administration: the adults, the embarrassingly bad actors and the independent-minded. You will notice that leaves only the bad (but not bad enough) dregs with no spine to stand up to President Trump. Therein lies many of our problems.
Many good performers — knowledgeable, honest and experienced — never entered the administration. Those who are even minimally competent invariably get canned or quit. A partial list: former national security adviser H.R. McMaster; former defense secretary Jim Mattis; former director of the National Economic Council Gary Cohn; former acting attorney general Sally Yates; former FBI director James B. Comey; former director of national intelligence Daniel Coats; former National Security Council staffer Fiona Hill; and a slew of career U.S. attorneys and Foreign Service officers at the State Department (including former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch).
Then there are those who mess up so badly they become political liabilities for Trump. This is a long list, but certainly includes acting Navy secretary Thomas Modly (who traveled to Guam to berate and insult Navy Capt. Brett Crozier for pleading for the safety of his sailors stricken by covid-19); former Environmental Protection Agency director Scott Pruitt; former interior secretary Ryan Zinke; former health and human services secretary Tom Price; former labor secretary Alexander Acosta (partially responsible for the slap on the wrist for the late child sex abuser Jeffrey Epstein); and a whole bunch of press secretaries and chiefs of staff. When their failures or ethics violations become too distracting, Trump eventually dumps them — but only after he and his sycophants in the media and Congress embarrass themselves by defending the malefactor.
Next come those who speak up and who defy (or threaten to defy) Trump’s reign of terror: former intelligence community inspector general Michael Atkinson (whose firing was “a decision that Trump acknowledged was in response to Atkinson’s having alerted lawmakers to the existence of a whistleblower complaint about the president’s dealings with Ukraine”); former national security staffer Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman; and, most recently, inspector general Glenn Fine, who had been charged with oversight of the $2 trillion stimulus package. (This comes as a New York Times report finds that Trump “has a small personal financial interest in Sanofi, the French drugmaker that makes Plaquenil, the brand-name version of hydroxychloroquine,” the unproven treatment for covid-19 that Trump incessantly hawked.)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/04/08/sooner-or-later-they-all-go/