Opinion: Make Trump look bad? You’ll get fired.
, saying that Crozier’s letter was “a betrayal of trust” and asserting that if Crozier didn’t think it would become public, he was “too naïve or too stupid to be a commanding officer of a ship like this.”The remarks drew a shocked response. One anonymous defense official told CNN that the acting secretary “should be fired.” But given that Modly sounded a lot like Trump, that seems unlikely.
This is only the latest illustration of one of the guiding principles of the Trump administration: You can be incompetent and you can be corrupt, but the one thing you cannot do if you want to keep your job is to make Trump look bad.
alleging that Trump had urged the president of Ukraine to assist his reelection campaign: He assessed the complaint, found it credible and urgent, and passed it on to the director of national intelligence.Trump apparently thought that what Atkinson should have done was to cover it up. “I thought he did a terrible job. Absolutely terrible,” Trump said on Saturday. “He took this terrible, inaccurate whistleblower report and he brought it to Congress.
In fact, whether you think it was grounds for impeachment or not, virtually everything in the whistleblower’s account
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