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applegrove

(118,462 posts)
Tue Apr 6, 2021, 03:47 PM Apr 2021

Life As an Ex-Trump Official

Life As an Ex-Trump Official

April 6, 2021 at 2:55 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 26 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2021/04/06/life-as-an-ex-trump-official/

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Several former Trump officials told the Washington Post that “the job climate was even more difficult than they believed it would be, and both former vice president Mike Pence and Trump have kept a coterie of staffers still on their payrolls, some because they have not been able to find other work. Some seem to have disappeared.”

“Kirstjen Nielsen, the former head of Homeland Security who is linked to the family separation scandal at the border, sold her house in Washington, and moved in hopes that fewer people would recognize her in public. Mark Meadows, the president’s former chief of staff, changed his longtime cellphone number. A number of other Cabinet secretaries have struggled to find jobs.”

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underpants

(182,585 posts)
8. There's a gap here in your employment history, care to explain?
Tue Apr 6, 2021, 04:34 PM
Apr 2021

I was in prison.
Are you sure you weren’t working in the Trump administration?
Nope. Prison. Definitely prison.

DBoon

(22,338 posts)
4. They should be grateful they are not being held in a Federal prison
Tue Apr 6, 2021, 03:54 PM
Apr 2021

So they had to change their address and phone number? Poor dears. How many state and county public health officials were driven out of their jobs by death threats from Trump supporters?

underpants

(182,585 posts)
7. Exactly everyone saw this coming
Tue Apr 6, 2021, 04:33 PM
Apr 2021

They got a paltry amount of applications just to be in the administration. They bled employees worse than a fast food place.

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