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Looks Like We Might Be Entering A New Phase In Trump’s Presidency: The “What Are You Going To Do To Stop Me?” Phase
What Looked Like A Housecleaning At Homeland Security Is Turnning Into A Full-Blown Purge
Just a few hours after the “resignation” of the Secretary of Homeland Security, and a few days after Trump withdrew his nominee for ICE Director in order to go in a “tougher direction”, the U.S. Secret Service Director Randolph “Tex” Alles is now gone too. And the Washington Post, the New York Times, (and others), report other senior Homeland Security officials will likely be gone in short order. (Almost guaranteeing this newsletter will be outdated virtually from the moment we publish it).
Remember, all of these people were appointed by Trump. Remember also, just two months ago when Trump in his State of the Union address stated he wants legal immigration in “the largest numbers ever”? Now, Trump was talking about a different “type” of legal immigrant. At this same time, how does that stand up to his repeated Twitter rantings on Monday that “Our country is FULL!”
(Little bit of distracting trivia: the Secret Service was actually part of the Treasury Department until it was moved to Homeland Security when that cabinet department was created after 9/11.)
