"AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY"
STARRING:
SEAN SPICER:White House Press Secretary and Communications Director
Sean Spicer was communications director of the RNC from 2011 to 2017 and it's chief strategist from 2015-2017 until he accepted the job in #45's administration. During his tenure at RNC Spicer was critical of candidate Trump's comments regarding Mexican immigrants being involved in crimes as wells comments made about John McCain.
Things did NOT go well on Day 1 of his new gig when he was criticized for making false claims regarding the crowd numbers at the inauguration. He has gotten better in front of the press corps but is best represented in a SNL skit where he is portrayed by Melissa McCarthey.
KellyAnne (Fitzpatrick) Conway: CHIEF ADVISOR to the President
Formerly the President/CEO of THE POLLING COMPANY,Inc, Ms. Conway served as a GOP strategist, pollster and campaign manager who endorsed Ted Cruz in the GOP primaries and was critical of candidate Donald Trump. When Cruz dropped out Conway jumped ship being named Trump's senior campaign advisor before being named campaign manager a few weeks later. Her distinction is being the first woman to successfully run a presidential campaign. In December of 2016, President-Elect Trump appointed Conway as Counselor to the President.
"ALTERNATIVE FACTS?" Alternative facts" is a phrase used by U.S. Counselor to the President Kellyanne Conway during a Meet the Press interview on January 22, 2017, in which she defended White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer's false statement about the attendance at Donald Trump's inauguration as President of the United States. When pressed during the interview with Chuck Todd to explain why Spicer "utter[ed] a provable falsehood", Conway stated that Spicer was giving "alternative facts." Todd responded, "Look, alternative facts are not facts. They're falsehoods."
Mike Pompeo- CIA Director-On January 23, 2017, the Senate confirmed Rep. Mike Pompeo, a Republican (Tea Party) congressman from Kansas, as director of the Central Intelligence Agency. Pompeo, 53, has served in the House of Representatives since 2011. He succeeds a 25-year veteran of the CIA, John Brennan, who's served as the agency's chief since 2013.
Pompeo is a graduate (#1 of his class ) at The U.S. Military Academy at West Point (Mechanical Engineering,) served in the Regular Army 1986-1991, received his J.D. from Harvard Law where he was editor of Harvard Law Review.
James Comey- (Retained as )FBI Director (only for me to ask the question "WHY?")
NEWSWEEK Nov 7,2016James Comey should not simply be fired as director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. He must be barred forever from any form of public service. There's a stinging comment from NEWSWEEK, not a good endorsement by any means.Yet, after screwing up the e-mail investigations a few moments before the electorate hit the polls may or may not have swayed public opinion of Hillary Clinton but needless to say this guy should have stepped down BUT NO, he is retained by #45, probably for a job well done.
Rex Tillerson Secretary of State. U.S. senators grilled former Exxon CEO Rex Tillerson about his past dealings with Russia at his recent confirmation hearing. One was about his receiving Putin's (Russia's) ORDER OF FRIENDSHIP to which even Senator LINDSEY GRAHAN (R-SC) called "unnerving".Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., asked Tillerson whether he thought Vladimir Putin was a war criminal (Tillerson's answer: "I would not use that term"), while Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., pressed him on Exxon opposing sanctions against Russia. At his confirmation hearing on Jan. 11, 2017, Tillerson rejected the assertion that he ever tried to scuttle sanctions."I have never lobbied against sanctions personally," Tillerson said. "To my knowledge, Exxon never directly lobbied against sanctions."That’s an artfully crafted answer that’s pretty misleading and raises my suspicions.
So that leads us to:
Michael Flynn National Security Advisor. National security adviser Michael Flynn privately discussed U.S. sanctions against Russia with that country's ambassador to the United States during the month before President Trump took office, contrary to public assertions by Trump officials. Flynn's communications with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak were interpreted by some senior U.S. officials as an inappropriate and potentially illegal signal to the Kremlin that it could expect a reprieve from sanctions that were being imposed by the Obama administration in late December to punish Russia for its alleged interference in the 2016 election. Vice President Mike Pence did not know that National Security Adviser Michael Flynn may have spoken about sanctions with the Russian Ambassador in January pre-inauguration, and believes "it's a problem," a senior White House adviser told CNN Friday. Three administration officials said Pence only knew what Flynn told him -- that he had not talked about sanctions -- before Pence stood before cameras last month and vouched for Flynn. One official said Pence was trying to "get to the bottom of it."Flynn cannot rule out that he spoke to Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak about sanctions, an aide close to the National Security Adviser said Friday.Flynn, the aide said, has "no recollection of discussing sanctions," but added that the National Security Adviser "couldn't be certain that the topic never came up."Flynn has avoided making firm commitments about maintaining US sanctions on Russia, according to US and European officials familiar with his meetings in recent weeks.
Officials said Flynn’s references to the election-related sanctions were explicit. Two of those officials went further, saying that Flynn urged Russia not to overreact to the penalties being imposed by President Barack Obama, making clear that the two sides would be in position to review the matter after Trump was sworn in as president.
“Kislyak was left with the impression that the sanctions would be revisited at a later time,” said a former official.
JEFF SESSIONS: ATTORNEY GENERAL
This was a bitter and racially charged nomination battle to which Senator Elizabeth Warren (D- Mass) was silenced.In a party-line vote, 49 to 43, senators forced Ms. Warren into silence, at least on the Senate floor, until the showdown over Mr. Sessions’s nomination is complete.
Mr. Sessions, an Alabama Republican, survived a near-party-line vote, 52 to 47, in the latest sign of the extreme partisanship at play as Mr. Trump strains to install his cabinet. No Republicans broke ranks in their support of a colleague who will become the nation’s top law enforcement official after two decades in the Senate.
TOM PRICE: Dept of Health and Services Mr. Price is the first doctor to lead the department since Dr. Louis W. Sullivan stepped down at the end of the first Bush administration in January 1993.
Tom Price will lead President Trump’s efforts to dismantle the Affordable Care Act.
Steven T. Mnuchin- Treasury Secretary has vowed that “there would be no absolute tax cut for the upper class.”
But under the tax overhaul that House Republicans are pushing, or under similar proposals that Mr. Trump has offered, the guarantee looks impossible to fulfill.
And Featuring:
Mick Mulvaney as BUDGET DIRECTOR
Wilbur Ross as COMMERCE SECRETARY
and Linda E. McMahon as DIRECTOR OF SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION
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