A Trump family aide tried to get a HUD colleague fired by name-dropping Eric Trump
Source: MSN/Washington Post
Just three weeks into the Trump presidency, Lynne Patton, a longtime Trump family aide and freshly minted HUD senior adviser, had a personnel problem she deemed serious enough to invoke her powerful connections.
In a flurry of emails to the Office of Presidential Personnel in February 2017, Patton sought to remove Maren Kasper, the White House liaison to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, because Patton felt undermined.
Dr. Carson & his team deem her divisive and disruptive, as do I, Patton wrote to John DeStefano, assistant to Trump and then director of presidential personnel, and his deputy director, Sean Doocey, on Feb. 8. If it helps, Eric Trump agrees that its best to nip this potential problem in the bud & told me to call Jared [Kushner], if necessary, but I prefer to go through you all first.
The emails were obtained by the liberal watchdog group American Oversight through a public records request and the 504-page response was shared with The Washington Post. The correspondence about Kasper highlighted the extent to which top Trump officials scrutinized their appointees personal loyalties in the early days of the administration. In a series of emails, which took place before HUD Secretary Ben Carson was confirmed, Patton and White House officials discussed their colleagues' support for Trump.
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I am glad that this is still being reported, rather than being taken for granted.
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)Looks like she dropped every name she could in her effort to get rid of another person in her dept. Personal animosity? Kudos to the WH staffers who didn't immediately fire or transfer Kaspar. Patton cont'd with her emails, "code red" to get Kaspar transferred, "I know that Carson wants her gone," she said disloyal things about Trump. Carson wants me and coworker Singleton to stay, and Kaspar gone.
As it turned out, Carson didn't want her gone. And it was Singleton, not Kaspar, who had written an op-ed stating that Trump was unfit to be President. So Singleton was out. Ha. And Patton did a "please excuse any misunderstanding of my prior emails" mea culpa email. Eric Trump didn't get involved in personnel issues. Patton ended up being transferred. Not Kaspar. Ha!
The gall of all these people. Even those not in power positions. She thought she was a big guy on campus and could get people fired with lies and name dropping without permission. Like she could get away with that? Carson intervened to save Kaspar's job. Patton was transferred. Singleton was gone.
Do any of these people actually care about their job duties? Or is it all money and politics all the time and that's it?
bitterross
(4,066 posts)Good grief. If Dr. Carson deemed her disruptive and divisive I'm sure Dr. Carson can do something about that. He does not require Patton's petty little self to do it for him.
That is the kind of person who needs to be removed right away from any position.
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)70 million Americans not only want you to lose your job; they want you on toilet scrubbing duty at Big Al's Truck Stop for the rest of your career.
dembotoz
(16,825 posts)MiniMe
(21,718 posts)I wonder if Kasper called him on that and Carson got mad?
SWBTATTReg
(22,156 posts)them, a big pathetic joke.
Javaman
(62,532 posts)showing her up.
dawg day
(7,947 posts)He isn't even a government employee, much less a boss.
These people are CREEPS.