WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Before he became U.S. president, Donald Trump was famous for dismissing contestants on his television show “The Apprentice” with a resounding “You’re fired!”

But at the White House, he has often outsourced the job of booting employees to his chief of staff - and then announced the departures via Twitter.

On Wednesday, he tweeted that Attorney General Jeff Sessions was out. Sessions is the latest in a series of people to leave Trump’s administration.

JAMES COMEY, FBI DIRECTOR, MAY 9, 2017

When Trump decided to fire Comey, the White House released a letter from the president to his FBI chief explaining that he was being dismissed on the recommendation of Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein. Comey learned of the letter from TV news reports that aired while he was speaking to his staff in Los Angeles. Trump later said Comey’s firing was because of “this Russia thing.” The firing led to Rosenstein’s naming of Robert Mueller as special counsel.

REINCE PRIEBUS, CHIEF OF STAFF, JULY 28, 2017

From Air Force One at the end of a day trip to Long Island, New York, Trump tweeted that he had replaced Priebus with John Kelly. Priebus had been on the flight too. “Reince is a good man,” Trump told reporters waiting on the tarmac in pouring rain.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-firings-factbox/youre-fired-how-trump-has-dismissed-white-house-staff-idUSKCN1NC30G

Before he worked at the White House, Matthew Whitaker was executive director of the Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust (FACT), a conservative ethics watchdog. There, he made full use of the opportunity to call for investigations into multiple Democrats.

Whitaker will replace Jeff Sessions as acting attorney general, having been his chief of staff. Sessions was asked to resign by President Donald Trump, who has long been angry at his recusal from oversight of the Mueller investigation.

The acting attorney general is seen as a Trump loyalist who, like the president, is critical of the special counsel’s probe. He has called for it to be limited in scope.

If Mueller explores the Trump family finances, Whitaker wrote for CNN in 2017, it would fall outside the scope set by the justice department and “raise serious concerns that the special counsel's investigation was a mere witch hunt.”

According to his LinkedIn profile, Whitaker was at FACT from October 2014 to September 2017. During that time, FACT called for ethics investigations into or filed complaints about the following Democratic politicians, officials, and organizations:

The DNC, Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, Sidney Blumenthal, Sen. Mark Warner, data firm Catalist, Correct the Record PAC, NexGen Climate Action Committee, Sen. Claire McCaskill, Sen. Thomas Carper; House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, Rep. Alan Grayson, Rep. Patrick Murphy, Rep. Ami Bera, Rep. Jarred Huffman, Rep. John Lewis, Rep. Ben Ray Lujan, Rep, Keith Ellison, Rep. Alcee Hastings, Rep. Hank Johnson, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz; Senate candidates Joe Sestak, Katie McGinty, Patrick Murphy, Ted Strickland, Evan Bayh, Catherine Cortez Masto; House candidates Tom Nelson, Steve Santarsiero, Suzanna Shkreli, Ruben Kihuen, Jim Mowrer, Colleen Deacon, Pete Gallego, Doug Applegate, Bryan Caforio, Morgan Carroll, LuAnn Bennett, Christina Hartman, Stephanie Murphy, Michael Eggman, Mike Derrick; the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster, Jobs and Opportunity PAC, and Rep. John Lewis's Chief of Staff Michael Collins.

That is 46 individuals or organizations. Yet over the same time period just a couple of Republicans were the subjects of similar calls and complaints by FACT, which pitches itself as “non-partisan.”

https://www.newsweek.com/heres-list-democrats-acting-ag-matt-whitaker-wanted-investigate-1206917?utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=NewsweekTwitter

This video is doctored. It's slowed down and then sped up at the moment Acosta's hand comes down to make it look like he's doing a karate chop or something. This is shameful propaganda. It's Orwellian.

Sarah Huckabee Sanders should resign over this video.

The government is literally falsifying evidence to wrongfully accuse a private citizen of a crime in order to revoke his rights.

If you're not terrified, you should be.

The Committee on Science, Space, and Technology may finally live up to its name.

The Democratic control of the House means science will get higher billing in the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, which, despite its name, has been run by Republicans science deniers since 2010.

Texas Congressman Ralph Hall was chair for two years before Lamar Smith (R-Texas) took over in 2013. Hall was like a warm-up for Smith’s reign, telling National Journal in 2011, “I don’t think we can control what God controls” when it comes to climate and accusing scientists of manipulating their evidence. Smith took his chairmanship to new lengths, using subpoena power against scientists in order to uncover a smoking gun in what he referred to as the “extreme climate agenda.”

The committee would have been in for major changes next year no matter what party controlled the House, because 70-year old Smith announced his plans to retire earlier this year.

There will be radical changes coming, according to Eddie Bernice Johnson, a Texas Democrat who is a ranking member of the committee and likely to become the next chair. A former chief psychiatric nurse, she would be the first House Science chair with a STEM background since the 1990s, according to Washington Post reporter Sarah Kaplan.

Johnson has already laid out her priorities for the future of the committee, should she become chair. They include “defending the scientific enterprise from political and ideological attacks, and challenging misguided or harmful Administration actions.” Another priority will be to acknowledge climate change is real “and working to understand the ways we can mitigate it.” And, lastly, she called to “Restore the credibility of the Science Committee as a place where science is respected and recognized as a crucial input to good policymaking.” Democrats would have the power to investigate the EPA’s changes to its scientific advisory boards and its use of science in regulatory policy, for starters.

https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2018/11/eddie-bernice-johnson-science-returns-to-the-house/

The results confirm what I have been advocating. Those Dems that preach “puppies and daisies” are losing and the fighters are winning. There is only one path to success in 2020, and it’s not turning the other cheek. When they go low, we hit harder. #FireWithFire #BuckleUp

If the Democrats think they are going to waste Taxpayer Money investigating us at the House level, then we will likewise be forced to consider investigating them for all of the leaks of Classified Information, and much else, at the Senate level. Two can play that game!

Democrats won about 60% of the women's vote. That's significant because we've seen a shift in 3 key categories among women voters:

➡️ Single white women voted Democrat 66% to 31%

➡️ Married women voted 55% to 43% Democrat

➡️ Suburban women voted 54% to 44% Democrat

The first Muslim women and Native Americans, among others, will be headed to Congress.



WASHINGTON — The first two Native American and Muslim congresswomen are headed to the U.S. House, and Massachusetts is getting its first black congresswoman, while Arizona and Tennessee are getting their first female senators in Tuesday's midterm elections.

The high-profile midterm cycle that produced a record number of women contenders and candidates of color meant a number of winners will take office as trailblazers, marking firsts for their race and gender.

What is already the most diverse Congress ever will become even more so after Tuesday's elections.

The inclusive midterm victories bode well for future election cycles, said Kimberly Peeler-Allen, co-founder of Higher Heights for America, a national organization focused on galvanizing black women voters and electing black women as candidates.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/out-many-several-trailblazing-firsts-elected-across-country-n933256