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</font><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">1020 an</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">lackeys from the Trump administration aren't one teensy bit concerned about the mess they'll leave behind should their impeached president lose reelection in just under 20 days. Oh no, the fact that they're all on a superspreader tour of the country is proof of that. Like their boss, what they're concerned about instead are their own sorry asses.</font></div><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Trump staffers, <em>The Washington Post</em> <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/10/16/where-will-all-trump-staffers-go-preparing-worst-gop-ponders-life-after-trump/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">reports</a>, "are hoping the Trump presidency isn't a disqualifying blemish on their resumes or Google footprint as the door revolves the other way and they seek to land, once again, in the private sector." <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/10/9/1985135/-Government-memo-warning-against-separating-very-young-children-from-parents-went-unsent-report-says" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">Considering the kinds of horrific crimes this administration has carried out,</a> they should be grateful that not being able to find a six-figure job at a fancy D.C. firm is the worst thing they have to worry about.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Some of former officials have already gotten a taste of a post-Trump life. For former White House press secretary Sean Spicer, "[t]here's been no cushy landing on K Street or high-profile consultancy at a major lobbying or public relations firm," <em>The Post </em>said. While he published a book about being a taxpayer-funded liar, <a href="https://www.thewrap.com/sean-spicers-new-book-is-tanking/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">it flopped.</a> Another one of his post-Trump jobs wasn't too pretty either—<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/sean-spicer-dancing-with-the-stars-photos-videos-reactions-2019-9" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">no really, he wore some hideous dollar store piñata</a> for the 28th season of <em>Dancing with the Stars</em>, where he was the sixth contestant eliminated.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">But just because Sean "This was the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration, period!" Spicer had trouble doesn't mean other former Trump officials have had the same experience. "Ex-White House chief of staff Reince Priebus is president of the Michael Best & Friedrich law firm," </span><em style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The Post</em><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> continued. </span><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Former Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Sec. John Kelly continued cashing in on cruelty and <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/8/19/1879972/-Florida-prison-camp-for-kids-emptied-out-just-weeks-ago-could-reopen-as-soon-as-October" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">joined the board of a company</a> that operated the now-closed prison camp for migrant children in Homestead, Florida</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">. His successor, Kirstjen Nielsen, <a href="https://www.executivegov.com/2019/10/kirstjen-nielsen-joins-natl-infrastructure-advisory-council/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">didn't really stray far and joined a government council.</a></span></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/3/8/1840522/-Former-chief-of-staff-John-Kelly-s-rehabilitation-tour-gets-an-assist-from-the-New-York-Times" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">Kelly</a> and <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/7/23/1963228/-Kirstjen-Nielsen-s-rehabilitation-tour-is-still-going-on-and-it-s-still-full-of-lies" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">Nielsen</a> in particular tried rehabilitation tours that really just continued exposing them as liars. They probably wished for the luck of Nielsen's former chief of staff Miles Taylor, who got a CNN contributor's gig after managing to convince enough people that he was shocked, <em>shocked! </em>about shenanigans he saw at DHS <a href="https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/laurenceberland/miles-taylor-dhs-google" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">even though he was there for two years</a>, from 2017 and 2019. Taylor didn't speak out then as a moral whistleblower to expose hateful policies, but instead until this past summer when it was convenient for him. <a href="https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/laurenceberland/miles-taylor-dhs-google" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">Nor has Taylor fully apologized for many of the policies he helped carry out.</a></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"The longtime GOP strategist who runs a public affairs firm recalled coming close to hiring a former Trump White House staffer until a Google search revealed the prospective hire's track record defending Trump on race and immigration," <em>The Post</em> continued. "It ground the interview process to a halt, the strategist said." But, at the same time, "Americans have short memories," a former Bush and Clinton staffer continued to <em>The Post</em>.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The fact is that from White House aide Stephen Miller to unlawfully appointed acting DHS Sec. Chad Wolf, these officials deserve to become pariahs when the administration is at last finished. They brought it on themselves because they knew what they were signing up for from the start: a vulgarian who bragged about committing sexual assault and a racist who vowed to deport millions of undocumented immigrants <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/8/28/1973076/-This-video-is-making-sure-voters-don-t-forget-about-Trump-s-exploitation-of-undocumented-workers" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">even as he exploited many at his own businesses.</a> Don't feel sorry for these officials. Feel sorry for the many people they hurt.</font></p><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2020/08/foxs-lou-dobbs-served-as-the-shadow-chief-of-staff-of-the-trump-administration-ex-dhs-official/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">https://www.alternet.org/2020/08/foxs-lou-dobbs-served-as-the-shadow-chief-of-staff-of-the-trump-administration-ex-dhs-official/</font></a></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 17px; font-size: small; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>former senior Trump administration official Miles Taylor said that President Donald Trump would regularly berate staffers for not following the advice of Fox News host Lou Dobbs.</b></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 17px; font-size: small; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“This is really disheartening but there was a period of time where, at first jokingly, we would say that Fox late night host <b>Lou Dobbs was the sort of shadow chief of staff of the Trump administration,”</b> Miles told CNN host Anderson Cooper on Friday.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 17px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“Why did we say that? Because the president would call us and he would say, and pardon my language, why the hell didn’t you watch Lou Dobb last night? You need to listen to Lou. What Lou says is what I want to do,” he explained.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 17px; font-size: small; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“So if Lou Dobbs peddled a conspiracy theory on late night television or made an erroneous claim about what should be done at the border or with some law enforcement operation, the president wanted us to be tuning in every night,” Miles said.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 17px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">"My response to that was I don’t have any time to watch Lou Dobbs in the evening. You have us running a 250,000-person department and we’re trying to guard against some of the most severe threats to the country. We can can’t be watching Lou Dobbs and taking our orders from him, but this happened on a regular basis.”</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 17px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Miles, who served as chief of staff to Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, recently endorsed Biden for president.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></p></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">post portland?</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><h3 class="magcat-titlte entry-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; letter-spacing: 1px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2020/07/kirstjen-nielsen-is-trying-to-cover-up-the-horrors-she-enacted-at-dhs-with-a-barrage-of-lies/" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer; display: block; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.4;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Kirstjen Nielsen is trying to cover up the horrors she enacted at DHS with a barrage of lies</font></a><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2020/07/kirstjen-nielsen-is-trying-to-cover-up-the-horrors-she-enacted-at-dhs-with-a-barrage-of-lies/" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer; display: block; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.4;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">720 an</font></a><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2020/07/kirstjen-nielsen-is-trying-to-cover-up-the-horrors-she-enacted-at-dhs-with-a-barrage-of-lies/" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer; display: block; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.4;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /></a><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.alternet.org/author/gabe-ortiz/" title="Posts by Gabe Ortiz" class="author url fn" rel="author" style="text-align: right; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">Gabe Ortiz</a><span style="text-align: right;"> </span><span style="text-align: right;">/</span><span style="text-align: right;"> </span><a href="https://www.alternet.org/author/daily-kos/" title="Posts by Daily Kos" class="author url fn" rel="author" style="text-align: right; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">Dai</a><span style="text-align: right;">ly kos</span></font></font></h3><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></font></p></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/lou-dobbs/new-book-sheds-light-how-lou-dobbs-pushed-out-trumps-dhs-secretary" rel="bookmark" class="teaserlink" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none; display: flex; outline: 0px;" /></font><div class="teasercontent" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex: 1 1 0%; flex-direction: column; justify-content: center;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/lou-dobbs/new-book-sheds-light-how-lou-dobbs-pushed-out-trumps-dhs-secretary" rel="bookmark" class="teaserlink" style="box-sizing: border-box; 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</font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2019/09/ex-dhs-head-kirstjen-nielsen-leaves-atlantic-ideas-festival-stage-after-outrage-from-grassroots-movement/"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">https://www.alternet.org/2019/09/ex-dhs-head-kirstjen-nielsen-leaves-atlantic-ideas-festival-stage-after-outrage-from-grassroots-movement/</font></a></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.alternet.org/immigration/calling-me-liar-are-fighting-words-democratic-lawmaker-walks-out-dhs-sec-nielsen-after"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">https://www.alternet.org/immigration/calling-me-liar-are-fighting-words-democratic-lawmaker-walks-out-dhs-sec-nielsen-after</font></a></font><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2019/04/trump-ignores-the-law-in-naming-acting-homeland-security-secretary-after-nielsens-resignation/"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">https://www.alternet.org/2019/04/trump-ignores-the-law-in-naming-acting-homeland-security-secretary-after-nielsens-resignation/</font></a></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">After Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/4/7/1848504/-Homeland-Security-Kirstjen-Nielson-has-resigned" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">resigned Sunday</a>, Donald Trump moved swiftly to announce her temporary replacement. But, characteristically for Trump, he <a href="https://www.ajc.com/blog/jamie-dupree/after-nielsen-ouster-questions-over-who-runs-dhs-next/6KE3C1aBIYFeiuu4EDd58O/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">ignored what the law says</a> about that.</font></font></p><div class="p1_4" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“I am pleased to announce that <b>Kevin McAleenan, the current U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner, will become Acting Secretary,</b>” Trump tweeted. The law, though, says that the deputy secretary would become acting secretary, and, because there’s currently no deputy secretary, the agency’s third-ranking position, the undersecretary for management, would take over. That would be Claire Grady.</font></font></p><div class="p2_4" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="alt_ad_block" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="teadsNative" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The <em style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Atlanta Journal-Constitution</em>’s Jamie Dupree reports that Nielsen’s shift from resigning immediately on April 7 to staying in her role until April 10 is “a move which could give her the ability to help alter the chain of succession inside DHS.” It’s not exactly babies in cages, but it would be appropriate for Nielsen to end her tenure by taking one last chance to help Donald Trump do questionably legal things.</font></font></p><div class="p3_4" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Confirmation hearings for anyone Trump nominates to replace Nielsen are likely to become a major showdown over Trump’s immigration and border policies.</font></font></p></div><div><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">basically fired when she told trump he was asking he to do crimes</font></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="text-align: center; box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px;"><a data-ga-action="Home Headlines: Headline" href="https://www.democracynow.org/2019/4/8/headlines/kirstjen_nielsen_steps_down_as_dhs_secretary" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; border: 0px;">Kirstjen Nielsen Steps Down as <span class="caps" style="box-sizing: border-box;">DHS</span> Secretary</a></font></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">miller calling deputies to scream for not being tough enough</font></font></p><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></font></div></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2019/04/kirstjen-nielsens-rehabilitation-tour-has-already-begun/" rel="bookmark" title="Kirstjen Nielsen’s rehabilitation tour has already begun" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 6px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer; line-height: 1.4; display: block; letter-spacing: 0px; font-weight: 700;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Nielsen’s rehabilitation tour has already begun</font></a></font></div><div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/melania-trump-urging-president-oust-national-security-official-after-clashing"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">https://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/melania-trump-urging-president-oust-national-security-official-after-clashing</font></a></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Trump's long-expected post-midterms White House shakeup is underway, with Attorney General Jeff Sessions being the first to get the boot. But <a href="https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/2018/11/trump-looking-to-boot-john-kelly-and-kirstjen-nielsen-in-long-rumored-white-house-shakeup-report/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">a much larger White House exodus is being planned</a>, reportedly including <a href="https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/?s=Kirstjen+Nielsen" rel="noopener" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Secretary of Homeland Security</a> Kirstjen Nielsen and <a href="https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/?s=%22John+Kelly%22" rel="noopener" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Chief of Staff John Kelly</a>.</font></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But there are others expected to get pink slips.</font></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A Trump administration top national security official is reportedly also on the firing list, for reasons that appear to have nothing to do with national security.</font></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"The president has also decided to remove Mira Ricardel, the top deputy for national security adviser <a href="https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/?s=%22John+Bolton%22" rel="noopener" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">John Bolton</a>, officials said," <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-has-decided-to-remove-homeland-security-secretary-nielsen-1542126979" rel="noopener" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">The Wall Street Journal reports</a>.</font></font></p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><interaction data-token="5b96855f8198b4e625350260" data-context="true" data-tags="" data-fallback="true" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /></font></font><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"The president became involved in that decision at the urging of first lady Melania Trump, whose staff battled with Ms. Ricardel during the first lady’s trip to Africa last month over seating on the plane and requests to use National Security Council resources, according to people familiar with the matter." the Journal notes.</font></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The conflict with Ricardel may be among the reasons Trump wants to give Kelly the boot.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/after-clashes-first-lady-others-kelly-may-soon-exit-white-n935686" rel="noopener" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">NBC News</a> adds questions about Kelly's "future in the White House recently became more serious after his repeated clashes with national security adviser John Bolton and his deputy, Mira Ricardel."</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Kelly has been battling with the First Lady's staff, denying them promotions.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">One White House official told NBC News there "have been instances where the East Wing staff were not treated as equals to the male-dominated decision makers in Chief Kelly’s office."</font></p><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</div><div>Updated | President Donald Trump has decided to nominate Kirstjen Nielsen to succeed John Kelly as secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, the White House announced Wednesday evening. Politico, Reuters and other outlets had reported earlier on Wednesday that the nomination was imminent, citing unnamed sources.</div><div>
</div><div>Nielsen was Kelly's chief of staff while he was Homeland Security secretary. After Kelly became chief of staff to Trump, Nielsen became his deputy chief of staff and special assistant to the president.</div><div>
</div><div>Related: Who is John Kelly, Trump's new chief of staff?</div><div>
</div><div>Prior to joining Kelly at Homeland Security, Nielsen was president of the firm Sunesis Consulting. Prior to that, she worked as president and general counsel for the homeland and national security arm of the Civitas Group, a consulting firm.</div><div>
</div><div>Before her time in the private sector, she served during the President George W. Bush administration as special assistant to the president and as senior director for prevention, preparedness and response at the White House Homeland Security Council. She also ran the Transportation Security Administration's offices of legislative policy and government affairs, a section she started.</div><div>
</div><div>She attended the Georgetown School of Foreign Service and the University of Virginia Law School.</div><div>
</div><div>10_11_Kirstjen_Nielsen_nominee</div><div>White House chief of staff John Kelly walks with Kirstjen Nielsen, then chief of staff at the Department of Homeland Security, on August 22. President Donald Trump is reportedly planning to nominate Nielsen to succeed Kelly as secretary of the Department of Homeland Security.</div><div>YURI GRIPAS/REUTERS</div><div>
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</div><div>Nielsen has a reputation as Kelly's "brusque, no-nonsense longtime aide," as Maggie Haberman and Glenn Thrush of The New York Times have described her. People close to her "have counseled her to lighten up and to pay more attention to the perfunctory niceties of a not-so-nice job," they wrote when she became deputy White House chief of staff.</div><div>
</div><div>One former Homeland Security official, who asked for anonymity so that the person could speak candidly, says the pick is a controversial one, and that people at the department are already speaking about leaving if the nomination moves forward. "The pick is not being received well," the official said. "While she's probably had some great jobs, it doesn't speak to the level of running a 200,000-person law enforcement agency."</div><div>
</div><div>The Democrats on the House Committee on Homeland Security also raised issues on Wednesday. "I am very concerned about her past work in the Bush administration during its botched response to Hurricane Katrina and am fearful that DHS—as well as this president—has not learned all the lessons from that tragedy, given what we are seeing unravel in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands," Representative Bennie Thompson, the ranking member of the committee, said in a statement.</div><div>
</div><div>But in a tweet, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders called Nielsen a "great choice."</div><div>
</div><div>In July, Trump selected Kelly, a retired Marine Corps general, to take over from Reince Priebus as White House chief of staff. That left a leadership vacuum at Homeland Security at a time when around half of its top positions were filled temporarily or vacant. </div><div>
</div><div>After Trump formally submits the nomination, it goes to the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.</div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Ki<b style="">rstjen Michele Nielsen</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">(born May 14, 1972)</span><sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirstjen_Nielsen#cite_note-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[1]</a></sup><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">is an American attorney and</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_security_of_the_United_States" title="National security of the United States" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">national security</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">expert serving as the</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Secretary_of_Homeland_Security" title="United States Secretary of Homeland Security" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">United States Secretary of Homeland Security</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span></font></div><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Nielsen is a former Principal <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_House_Deputy_Chief_of_Staff" title="White House Deputy Chief of Staff" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Deputy White House Chief of Staff</a> to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_the_United_States" title="President of the United States" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">President</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump" title="Donald Trump" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Donald Trump</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-Wh2017-09-06_2-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirstjen_Nielsen#cite_note-Wh2017-09-06-2" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[2]</a></sup> as well as chief of staff to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_F.Kelly" title="John F. Kelly" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">John F. Kelly</a> during his term as Secretary of Homeland Security.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">On December 5, 2017 she was confirmed by the Senate,<sup id="cite_ref-NYT_Confirmation_3-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirstjen_Nielsen#cite_note-NYT_Confirmation-3" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[3]</a></sup> and was sworn in the next day.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><div id="toc" class="toc" style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); background-color: rgb(248, 249, 250); padding: 7px; display: table; zoom: 1;"><div class="toctitle" lang="en" dir="ltr" style="direction: ltr; text-align: center;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /><h2 style="background: none; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; 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cursor: pointer;">hide</a>] </span></div><ul style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0.3em 0px; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirstjen_Nielsen#Early_life_and_education" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">1</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Early life and education</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirstjen_Nielsen#Early_career" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">2</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Early career</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirstjen_Nielsen#White_House_Deputy_Chief_of_Staff" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">3</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">White House Deputy Chief of Staff</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirstjen_Nielsen#Secretary_of_Homeland_Security" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">4</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Secretary of Homeland Security</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirstjen_Nielsen#See_also" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">5</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">See also</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-6" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirstjen_Nielsen#References" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">6</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">References</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-7" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirstjen_Nielsen#External_links" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">7</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">External links</span></font></a></li></ul></div><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Early_life_and_education">Early life and education</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kirstjen_Nielsen&action=edit§ion=1&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Early life and education" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h2><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Nielsen grew up in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clearwater,Florida" title="Clearwater, Florida" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Clearwater, Florida</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirstjen_Nielsen#cite_note-4" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[4]</a></sup> She graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgetown_School_of_Foreign_Service" class="mw-redirect" title="Georgetown School of Foreign Service" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Georgetown School of Foreign Service</a> and earned a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juris_Doctor" title="Juris Doctor" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Juris Doctor</a> from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Virginia_School_of_Law" title="University of Virginia School of Law" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">University of Virginia School of Law</a> in 1999.</span><sup id="cite_ref-UVaLaw_5-0" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirstjen_Nielsen#cite_note-UVaLaw-5" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[5]</a></sup></font></p><h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Early_career">Early career</span></font></h2><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font face="Times New Roman" style="" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Nielsen served during the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W.Bush" title="George W. Bush" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">George W. Bush</a> administration as special assistant to the president and as senior director for prevention, preparedness and response at the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Homeland_Security_Council" title="United States Homeland Security Council" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">White House Homeland Security Council</a>. She also set up, and led as Administrator, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transportation_Security_Administration" title="Transportation Security Administration" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Transportation Security Administration</a>'s Office of Legislative Policy and Government Affairs. Before serving in the Trump administration, she was a senior member of the Resilience Task Force of the Center for Cyber & Homeland Security committee at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington_University" title="George Washington University" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">George Washington University</a> and served on the Global Risks Report Advisory Board of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Economic_Forum" title="World Economic Forum" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">World Economic Forum</a>.</span><sup id="cite_ref-UVaLaw_5-1" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirstjen_Nielsen#cite_note-UVaLaw-5" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[5]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font face="Times New Roman" style="" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Nielsen is the founder and former President of Sunesis Consulting.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirstjen_Nielsen#cite_note-6" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[6]</a></sup> Sunesis was awarded numerous government contracts under President Obama's administration</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span><sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirstjen_Nielsen#cite_note-7" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[7]</a></sup></font></p><h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="White_House_Deputy_Chief_of_Staff">White House Deputy Chief of Staff</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kirstjen_Nielsen&action=edit§ion=3&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: White House Deputy Chief of Staff" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h2><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Nielsen previously served as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_F.Kelly" title="John F. Kelly" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">John F. Kelly</a>'s Chief of Staff at the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Secretary_of_Homeland_Security" title="United States Secretary of Homeland Security" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Department of Homeland Security</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-CchsKNielson_8-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirstjen_Nielsen#cite_note-CchsKNielson-8" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[8]</a></sup> She had informally performed the role of White House Deputy Chief of Staff since Kelly assumed the office of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_House_Chief_of_Staff" title="White House Chief of Staff" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">White House Chief of Staff</a> on July 31, 2017, at which point <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elaine_Duke" title="Elaine Duke" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Elaine Duke</a> became acting <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secretary_of_Homeland_Security" class="mw-redirect" title="Secretary of Homeland Security" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Secretary of Homeland Security</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-NYTimes2017-09-08_9-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirstjen_Nielsen#cite_note-NYTimes2017-09-08-9" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[9]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Fox2017-07-29_10-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirstjen_Nielsen#cite_note-Fox2017-07-29-10" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[10]</a></sup></font></p><h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Secretary_of_Homeland_Security">Secretary of Homeland Security</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kirstjen_Nielsen&action=edit§ion=4&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Secretary of Homeland Security" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h2><div class="thumb tleft" style="float: left; clear: left; margin: 0.5em 1.4em 1.3em 0px; width: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="thumbinner" style="min-width: 100px; border: 1px solid rgb(200, 204, 209); padding: 3px; background-color: rgb(248, 249, 250); text-align: center; overflow: hidden; width: 202px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent), url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" viewbox="%220" width="width" height="height" cg="Cg" id="%22smallbox%22" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%23000%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" d="%22M-1.499" h10.99v7.919h-10.99z="h10.99v7.919h-10.99z" e="E" h5.943v4.904h-5.943z="h5.943v4.904h-5.943z" c="C" g="g" display="display" block="block" text-indent="text-indent" px="px" white-space="white-space" nowrap="nowrap" overflow="overflow" hidden="hidden" user-select="user-select" none="none" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On October 11, 2017, President </font></a><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump" title="Donald Trump" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Donald Trump</a> nominated Nielsen to be the new <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Secretary_of_Homeland_Security" title="United States Secretary of Homeland Security" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">United States Secretary of Homeland Security</a>, replacing acting secretary <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elaine_Duke" title="Elaine Duke" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Elaine Duke</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_11-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirstjen_Nielsen#cite_note-:0-11" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[11]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:1_12-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirstjen_Nielsen#cite_note-:1-12" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[12]</a></sup> On Tuesday, January 16, 2018 Secretary Nielsen testified before the United States Senate and enunciated a position in favor of merit-based immigration, as opposed to the current immigration system based on family relations.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirstjen_Nielsen#cite_note-13" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[13]</a></sup> She was questioned about a previous meeting at the White House on the topic of immigration in which press reports and Senator <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Durbin" title="Dick Durbin" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Dick Durbin</a> stated that the President had used the word <i>shithole</i> to describe African countries and other disparaging remarks about Haiti.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirstjen_Nielsen#cite_note-14" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[14]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-twsPolitico647_15-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirstjen_Nielsen#cite_note-twsPolitico647-15" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[15]</a></sup> Nielsen said "I did not hear that word used, no sir" although she said she heard "tough language" which was impassioned.<sup id="cite_ref-twsPolitico647_15-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirstjen_Nielsen#cite_note-twsPolitico647-15" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[15]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-twsVOX909_16-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirstjen_Nielsen#cite_note-twsVOX909-16" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[16]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-twsWashPost8933_17-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirstjen_Nielsen#cite_note-twsWashPost8933-17" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[17]</a></sup> During the same hearing, Senator Patrick Leahy asked Secretary Nielsen whether Norway was a predominantly white country. Kirstjen Nielsen appeared to hesitate before answering, "I actually do not know that, sir." She added, "But I imagine that is the case."<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirstjen_Nielsen#cite_note-18" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[18]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirstjen_Nielsen#cite_note-19" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[19]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirstjen_Nielsen#cite_note-20" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[20]</a></sup> Nielsen was criticized by New Jersey Senator <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Booker" title="Cory Booker" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Cory Booker</a> for not recalling or speaking out against Trump's disparaging remarks which Booker characterized as bigoted.<sup id="cite_ref-twsVOX909_16-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirstjen_Nielsen#cite_note-twsVOX909-16" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[16]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-twsTheHill887_21-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirstjen_Nielsen#cite_note-twsTheHill887-21" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[21]</a></sup> Following the hearing, Nielsen expressed her disappointment in the amount of attention being paid to the White House meeting.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirstjen_Nielsen#cite_note-22" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[22]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">On December 5, 2017, the Senate confirmed her nomination, by a 62–37 vote.<sup id="cite_ref-WP-Confirmation_23-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirstjen_Nielsen#cite_note-WP-Confirmation-23" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[23]</a></sup> On December 6, 2017, she was sworn in as Secretary of Homeland Security.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirstjen_Nielsen#cite_note-24" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[24]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">On 9 March, Nielsen led the official United States delegation at the opening ceremony of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Winter_Paralympics" title="2018 Winter Paralympics" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2018 Paralympic Winter Games</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyeongchang_County" title="Pyeongchang County" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Pyeongchang</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirstjen_Nielsen#cite_note-25" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[25]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><i>The New York Times</i> reported in May 2018 that Nielsen considered resigning after President Trump berated her in front of the cabinet for the purported failure to secure U.S. borders.<sup id="cite_ref-:2_26-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirstjen_Nielsen#cite_note-:2-26" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[26]</a></sup> The <i>Times</i> reported that there was tension between Nielsen and Trump after she and other <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Homeland_Security" title="United States Department of Homeland Security" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">DHS</a> officials resisted Trump's call to separate undocumented immigrant parents from their children while in custody.<sup id="cite_ref-:2_26-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirstjen_Nielsen#cite_note-:2-26" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[26]</a></sup> <i>The Times</i>' reporting was confirmed to <i>Politico</i> and <i>Reuters</i> by a source at the DHS.<sup id="cite_ref-:3_27-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirstjen_Nielsen#cite_note-:3-27" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[27]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirstjen_Nielsen#cite_note-28" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[28]</a></sup> Nielsen denied that she threatened to resign.<sup id="cite_ref-:3_27-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirstjen_Nielsen#cite_note-:3-27" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[27]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">At a May 2018 congressional hearing, Nielsen said that she was unaware of the intelligence community's conclusion that Russia sought to interfere in the 2016 presidential election to help candidate Trump get elected.<sup id="cite_ref-:4_29-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirstjen_Nielsen#cite_note-:4-29" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[29]</a></sup> An assessment by the FBI, CIA and NSA in January 2017 was that the Russian preference was clearly to help Trump win; this assessment was mirrored in a bipartisan report by the Senate Intelligence Committee released days prior to Nielsen's testimony.<sup id="cite_ref-:4_29-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirstjen_Nielsen#cite_note-:4-29" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[29]</a></sup> Nielsen did however recognize that Russia tried to interfere in the 2016 election.<sup id="cite_ref-:4_29-2" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirstjen_Nielsen#cite_note-:4-29" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[29]</a></sup> Nielsen later backtracked, saying that she agreed with the intelligence community's assessment.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirstjen_Nielsen#cite_note-30" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[30]</a></sup> Nielson also testified that she supported the Trump administration policy of separating parents and children who crossed over the U.S. Mexico border.<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirstjen_Nielsen#cite_note-31" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[31]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In June 2018, Nielsen claimed that there was no Trump administration policy of separating migrant families at the Southern border.<sup id="cite_ref-:6_32-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirstjen_Nielsen#cite_note-:6-32" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[32]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:5_33-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirstjen_Nielsen#cite_note-:5-33" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[33]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirstjen_Nielsen#cite_note-34" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[34]</a></sup> At that point, the Trump administration had in six weeks separated approximately 2000 migrant children from their parents.<sup id="cite_ref-:5_33-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirstjen_Nielsen#cite_note-:5-33" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[33]</a></sup> Contrary to Nielsen's claims, the Department of Homeland Security's own website showed that a policy of family separation was in place.<sup id="cite_ref-:6_32-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirstjen_Nielsen#cite_note-:6-32" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[32]</a></sup></font></p><h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); 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</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.alternet.org/you-are-lying-period-trump-dhs-secretary-blasted-denying-existence-family-separation-policy">https://www.alternet.org/you-are-lying-period-trump-dhs-secretary-blasted-denying-existence-family-separation-policy</a></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">a "</span><a href="https://twitter.com/emmaroller/status/1008474344044027904" style="text-decoration-line: none;">heinous lie</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">" aimed at </span><a href="https://twitter.com/SecNielsen/status/1008467414235992069" style="text-decoration-line: none;">distorting the historical record</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> and avoiding responsibility for the mass cruelty perpetuated on her watch, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen falsely claimed in a series of tweets late Sunday that the Trump administration does "not have a policy of separating families at the border."</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"This misreporting by members [of Congress], press, and advocacy groups must stop. It is irresponsible and unproductive," Nielsen wrote, neglecting to mention data from her own department showing that <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/06/15/appalling-inhumane-it-needs-stop-trump-policy-has-ripped-2000-kids-47-day-parents" style="text-decoration-line: none;">nearly 2,000 children</a> have been separated from their families in just six weeks due to the Trump adminstration's so-called "zero tolerance" immigration policy.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Lawmakers, activists, and reporters who have <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/06/10/after-visiting-immigrant-mothers-detained-trump-pramila-jayapal-demands-end-cruel" style="text-decoration-line: none;">persistently highlighted and denounced</a>the Trump administration's family separation policy—which was officially <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/386634-sessions-illegal-border-crossers-will-be-prosecuted-families-may-be" style="text-decoration-line: none;">unveiled by</a>Attorney General Jeff Sessions in May—were quick to call out Nielsen's blatant lie on Sunday, pointing out that a quick look at her department's website is enough to expose the falsehood.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">..</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></p></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>