You'll recall that the Trump regime did everything in their power to sabotage the transition to President Biden's administration. Refusing to share data and information, dragging their feet on things like office space and waylaying messages from foreign leaders, and other petty and destructive acts, they served as the hallmarks of a corrupt and authoritarian regime. The sabotage didn't stop there, however.
Incoming administrations usually find some political types from the previous administration "burrowing in" to the civil service, creating a nuisance for them. Of course the Trump regime was so abnormal, seditious and incompetent, any political personnel "burrowing in" would constitute far more than a "nuisance." We read today that some of the most despicable Trump dead-enders have had their appointments to Defense Department boards held up, and it's good that they were:
"The decision affects a commission formed by Congress recently to consider the renaming of U.S. military installations that recognize Confederate military officers who fought to preserve slavery. Former acting defense secretary Christopher Miller appointed four people — including three who served in the Trump White House — to the panel this month before departing. Congress is expected to pick four other members.
At least temporarily, the halt affects appointees who include Corey Lewandowski and David Bossie, both of whom served as campaign managers for Donald Trump. They were named to the Defense Business Board in December, as the Trump administration also abruptly dismissed other members with a form letter from what historically had been a nonpartisan panel advising the defense secretary." (our emphasis)
The insult of having Lewandowski and Bossie (who's infamous for leading the "Citizens United" travesty) sitting on a commission that will review renaming bases named after treasonous Confederate generals is breathtaking. Fortunately, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin will have the final say, so Lewandowski and Bossie can kiss their stars and bars goodbye.
The article goes on to note that another board, the Defense Policy Board, was stacked with Trump hacks recently, too:
"In one effort in December, eight appointments were announced to the Defense Policy Board, including former House speaker Newt Gingrich (R.-Ga.), former Republican congressman J. Randy Forbes of Virginia, and Scott O’Grady, a former fighter pilot who was shot down over Bosnia and in recent months insisted falsely that Trump beat President Biden 'in a landslide' in the November election."
Imagine getting defense policy advice from the likes of pompous far-right know-it-all and Machiavellian weasel Newton Leroy Gingrich. Secretary Austin won't have to, because like the other advisory boards, he makes the final call on who serves on the boards. Time to take out the trash there and throughout the Government.
(photo: Bossie and Lewandowski. Jacqueline Martin/AP)
