We Found 95 New, Undisclosed Trump Appointees

[turbinetree]

Among the latest hires: a longtime DuPont manager who is now at an EPA position that is typically not a political appointment.

by Derek Kravitz Dec. 21, 2:29 p.m. EST

We have obtained a list of 95 new Trump administration appointees made over the past six months. Following a pattern we’ve detailed before, many of the hires previously worked on President Donald Trump’s campaign or at conservative think tanks such as the Heritage Foundation. In other cases, appointees seem to have little work experience at all.

We compiled the information from Freedom of Information Act requests and have added the appointees to our Trump Town app, which lets you search the disclosures of nearly 3,000 of them.

Here are a few of the recent appointments:

Lynn DeKleva, who worked for decades at chemical giant DuPont, was appointed to a job as an environmental engineer in the Environmental Protection Agency’s chemical safety and pollution prevention office in October. Typically, environmental engineering positions are not political appointments. DeKleva did not respond to ProPublica’s requests for comments. The EPA said in a statement that DeKleva “brings considerable product stewardship experience and knowledge with her to assist” the agency.

Ileana Garcia, a co-founder of the campaign’s Latinas for Trump, was appointed in October as deputy press secretary in the Department of Homeland Security.

Todd Thurman, a Heritage Foundation staffer who used to write for the Daily Signal and Breitbart, was appointed as the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s digital strategy specialist in September.

Antonin Scalia, the namesake grandson of the late Supreme Court justice, was appointed in September as a temporary assistant in the State Department. Scalia graduated from college last year. Scalia and the State Department did not respond to ProPublica’s requests for comments.

https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-town-95-new-undisclosed-trump-administration-appointees

The last one especially Antonin Scalia ...................

[mahatmakanejeeves]

1. Here's a link to an earlier article at DU about "beachhead team" appointees

ProPublica builds list of officials sent into Federal agencies as "beachhead teams."

As you and ProPublica have noted, the ones discussed in this thread are new appointees.

Thank you for keeping us up to date.

[turbinetree]

3. Your welcome.................

[turbinetree]

11. Danny Tiso......................and he worked at Mitt Romneys' "Staples"

https://projects.propublica.org/trump-town/staffers/daniel-j-tiso

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4388054-Daniel-J-Tiso-Financial-Disclosure.html

And we are paying this "person" to do exactly what..........................sell paper..................

January 3, 2019 cannot get here fast enough.......................

[calimary]

18. Bookmarking these.

[TeamPooka]

2. K&R

[underpants]

4. Thanks. Rec'd and bookmarked

[turbinetree]

6. Your welcome.......................

[dalton99a]

5. Kick

[UniteFightBack]

7. It's going to take many years to expose the depth and scope of the corruption. The United States

has not seen anything like this.

[cstanleytech]

22. Sounds more and more like there needs to be a RICO investigation of the Repugnant party and some

of its members.

[Scarsdale]

24. These appointments have to have

been in the works for a while. Who would assemble so many people with so little experience in two short years? Do the Koch brothers have a hand in these appointments? McConnell?? Certainly not tRump, otherwise many Russians would be appointed.

[klook]

8. Pro Publica is always on my donation list --

an organization well worth supporting.

This is important work, and a must-read article. More evidence that the Republicans are about maintaining the swamp.

[turbinetree]

10. Wado------------Thank you

Mine also................

[Turbineguy]

9. Trump infiltrations

is more like it.

[flying_wahini]

12. I find this frightening on so many different levels.

The Constitution, rule of law, "beachheads" i.e. Brownshirts, free journalism,....

[dae]

13. He hires the very best deadheads.

[UTUSN]

14. K&R

[matt819]

15. Sched C appointees, probably

All presidents get to appoint them, even illegitimate ones.

Here's the key. When the next Democrat takes office on January 20, 2021, he/she/it/they need to terminate every single Sched C appointee. Clean out your desk on January 20 and don't show up on January 21.

Next. No Republican holdovers in any position. None. All agency heads and deputies that were appointed and confirmed by the Senate? Gone. Any acting officials. Out. Cabinet secretaries. Gone. Joint Chiefs. Name new ones. All this happens on January 21.
Do not pass go. Do not collect $200. Don't come into the office on January 21. You don't have a job. If needed, change all the fucking locks and combinations. Call it a purge. Call it a housecleaning. Don't care. Just do it.

No, it will not be pretty, and many agencies will go with careerists in "acting" positions. That's fine.

Step 3 - and, remember, it's still January 20, 2021 - Sign Executive Orders to undo the damage the crook did with his EOs. Every single one. Don't care what it is or how disruptive it might be. But undo every single one.

Step 4 - The new prez can take a break and attend all the inaugural parties.

I sure hope that all these letters are being written now and that all the Executive Orders are saved in someone's To Do file, ready to go on January 20, 2021.

[uponit7771]

19. +1, anything related to this admin needs to be purged. The KGOP see's Red Don is furthering Putin's

... agenda little by little and do little to nothing.

They're buncha of freakin sellouts

[EarthFirst]

20. This.

I don’t give one fu*k about the ‘continuity of office’

Purge the entire government from top to bottom.

Fumigate all the offices; and rebuild from there.

I’m with you!

[flibbitygiblets]

16. How's that "drainy-swampy" thing workin' out fer ya?

[Martin Eden]

17. It may take a long time to undo ...

... the systematic corruption of apponting unqualified political hacks throughout government.

[Zambero]

21. Uh-Oh, It's CZAR time again

Someone needs to notify Sean Hannity. He'll have none of this!!

[Renew Deal]

23. Political patronage is part of the game

But the people nominated should be qualified and there shouldn't be conflicts (bribe payoffs, severe conflicts of interest, etc.)