bossert, tom
<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">...<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">ABC’s “This Week” with host George Stephanopoulos, former Donald Trump Administration Homeland Security adviser Tom Bossert slapped down a new conspiracy theory the president has been pushing and knocked Rudy Giuliani for encouraging the president to repeat it.</span></font></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">Bossert made a point of noting that that the unsubstantiated claim that Ukraine was responsible for the hack of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) in 2016 is nothing more than a “conspiracy theory” and lacks “validity.”</font></p><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">=</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">Over the past week, details have emerged regarding a</span><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"> </span><a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=b2576b5fa1ae6a8c3a07e62565dcf21e33d20f4707f33d1c429d9a47e7dfd8b107641a3a95d9e077bfa2db8c5fdb6d3b76a6dca46468290b" title="whistleblower complaint" style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">whistleblower complaint</a><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"> </span><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">that involves Trump’s communications with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.</span><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"> </span><a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=b2576b5fa1ae6a8c503038288843dd69b3d5ccf36488a30939d6574f6814ee6e043fa4fd6bb061c5a699782d6d2d8883760f3e2c8d5af1f9" title="reporting " style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">Additional reporting</a><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"> confirmed that Trump and his personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, pushed Zelensky to target former Vice President Joe Biden ahead of the 2020 presidential election. </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large">The</span><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"> </span><a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=b2576b5fa1ae6a8c09b77eef62b40e9ee3ca9b23aa558d848699cbc9a52cd743f9d932bfbc4e58b5b11cbfcf023613d9bf8ca2ee044cddfd" title="right-wing media-fueled conspiracy theory" style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large">right-wing media-fueled conspiracy theory</a><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"> </span><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large">behind that request has been</span><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"> </span><a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=b2576b5fa1ae6a8cbb9222fd7881f41bdae3a80958c1e16f073a56e0308a813daf4bf54d9a84dc510188ceaa840d79fb5b00c637381ebc63" title="thoroughly" style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large">thoroughly</a><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"> </span><a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=b2576b5fa1ae6a8cb27f1b106b1c3e40a6d9330eada187315ffa7f16283d60b61c3bad9f71b965a5e1cca320cbc1f7d8fdebfcc920332f77" title="debunked" style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large">debunked</a><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large">. BOSSERT</span></span></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/white-house-homeland-security-adviser-resigns-amid-continued-turnover-in-trump-administration/2018/04/10/15db518a-3ccb-11e8-a7d1-e4efec6389f0_story.html">https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/white-house-homeland-security-adviser-resigns-amid-continued-turnover-in-trump-administration/2018/04/10/15db518a-3ccb-11e8-a7d1-e4efec6389f0_story.html</a>?utm_term=.dc6eb033ab91</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>
</b></font></div><div><p data-elm-loc="1" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.8em; margin: 0px auto 18px; max-width: 100%;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>homeland security adviser Tom Bossert is leaving the Trump administration,</b> another departure during what has been a chaotic few months of personnel changes.</font></p><p data-elm-loc="2" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.8em; margin: 0px auto 18px; max-width: 100%;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Bossert, a favorite of Chief of Staff John F. Kelly, is leaving one day after national security adviser John Bolton began the job.</span> Bossert was believed to be on shaky footing in the Bolton era, and he resigned two days after Michael Anton, the National Security Council spokesman, also quit.</font></p><p data-elm-loc="3" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.8em; margin: 0px auto 18px; max-width: 100%;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Bossert’s resignation was requested by Bolton, according to three people familiar with the situation who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal personnel issues. Bolton himself conveyed that request to Bossert on Tuesday morning when Bossert walked into the office, the people said.</font></p><p data-elm-loc="4" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.8em; margin: 0px auto 18px; max-width: 100%;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders declined to comment on whether Bossert was pushed out.</font></p><p data-elm-loc="5" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.8em; margin: 0px auto 18px; max-width: 100%;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“I’m not going to get into specific details about the ongoings of personnel. But I can tell you that he resigned,” she told reporters Tuesday. “The president feels he’s done a great job and wishes him the best as he moves forward.”</font></p><div class="teads-inread" style="box-sizing: content-box; overflow: hidden; height: 360px; transition: height 0s ease 0s;" helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" light="Light" arial="Arial" lucida="Lucida" grande="Grande" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" margin="margin" auto="auto" max-width="max-width"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px !important; position: relative;"><div class="teads-player" id="teads0" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Bossert joins a growing list of officials who have left the administration in recent months as the historically high staff turnover rate continues under Trump.</font><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large;">...</span></div></div></div></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font><div><a href="https://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/leaked-memo-reveals-white-house-strategy-duck-blame-puerto-rico-catastrophe"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">https://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/leaked-memo-reveals-white-house-strategy-duck-blame-puerto-rico-catastrophe</font></a></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</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"><b> memo leaked on Sunday and <a href="https://www.axios.com/full-text-white-houses-tom-bossert-update-on-puerto-rico-2491599603.html" rel="noopener" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">published by Axios.com</a> reveals that President Donald Trump’s administration is aggressively trying to shift the blame for its dismal response to Hurricane Maria and to carry out “planned hits” against the president’s critics.</b></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Trump’s top Homeland Security advisor Tom Bossert authored the memo, </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">which detailed the administration’s plans to “start a theme of recovery planning for the bright future that lies ahead for Puerto Rico. Planned hits, tweets, tv bookings and other work will limit the need for reactionary efforts.”</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"><b>He continued by insisting that the Trump administration is not to blame for the fact that relief efforts did not begin in earnest until nearly a week after Hurricane Maria devastated the island.</b></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 storm caused these problems, not our response to it. We have pushed about as much stuff and people through a tiny hole in as short a timeframe as possible,” he wrote.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The administration’s enablers at Fox News <a href="https://www.rawstory.com/2017/10/i-dont-see-people-dying-foxs-geraldo-rivera-scoffs-in-the-face-of-san-juan-mayor-to-back-up-trump/" rel="noopener" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">set out early Sunday</a> to carry out its “hit” on San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz, calling her a “far left” radical and complaining that commentator Geraldo Rivera and his camera crew did not actually witness people dying in the streets.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Other administration officials have sought to smear Cruz by saying she has been uncooperative with FEMA and not attended its strategy sessions, but <a href="https://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/09/trump-attacks-san-juan-mayor-over-hurricane-response.html" rel="noopener" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Cruz’s office said</a> that it has sent representatives to all meetings and has been <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/oct/01/carmen-yulin-cruz-mayor-puerto-rico-donald-trump" rel="noopener" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">more than cooperative</a> with the bumbling, bureaucratically hamstrung federal relief effort.</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 Trump administration went into a full court press on Sunday to congratulate itself on what an excellent job it has done in Puerto Rico, but on Sunday night, the Pentagon pricked the White House’s bubble with an <a href="https://www.rawstory.com/2017/10/urgent-pentagon-statement-contradicts-trump-half-of-puerto-rico-has-no-water-and-its-getting-worse/" rel="noopener" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">urgent bulletin</a> that half the people in the U.S. territory are still without access to clean water and the situation is steadily worsening.</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">vid]</font></p></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><a href="https://www.democracynow.org/2016/12/28/headlines/trump_taps_iraq_war_advocate_tom_bossert_as_homeland_security_adviser"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">https://www.democracynow.org/2016/12/28/headlines/trump_taps_iraq_war_advocate_tom_bossert_as_homeland_security_adviser</font></a></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Donald Trump has selected Tom Bossert as his top adviser on homeland security, counterterrorism and cybersecurity. Bossert previously served as deputy homeland security adviser during the last year of George W. Bush’s presidency. Bossert is a staunch defender of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, which he has called a "just" war.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">==</font></div></div></div></div>